tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3669412675139526125.post177161755651588120..comments2024-03-12T21:13:06.850-05:00Comments on Legal Schnauzer: With left-leaning activists outing white supremacists from Charlottesville rally -- costing some their jobs -- Americans are learning First Amendment has limitslegalschnauzerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09619089628125964154noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3669412675139526125.post-35874308973190511002023-02-14T20:43:55.329-06:002023-02-14T20:43:55.329-06:00More from the Daily Beast story . . .
Conger’s r...More from the Daily Beast story . . . <br /><br />Conger’s research identified Von Nukem as one of the men who attacked Deandre Harris in a parking garage. She also connected the dots to show how Von Nukem gloated about the attack in text messages to another white supremacist rally organizer, who was later prosecuted in a separate case.<br /><br />Journalists, researchers, and anti-fascist activists spent months carefully examining photos and videos of the violence that day to identify white supremacists and hold them accountable. Von Nukem, who stood front and center during some of the most iconic moments of the hateful procession, was quickly outed by former classmates back in his home state. One former student told the local Springfield News-Leader that in school he was known as a “token goth kid” who had what the newspaper described as “an unsettling interest in Nazi Germany.”<br /><br />At the time, Von Nukem told the newspaper he supported Donald Trump and had adopted the white supremacist worldview that whites are now “disadvantaged.”<br /><br />legalschnauzerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09619089628125964154noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3669412675139526125.post-57049190978982047642023-02-14T20:40:55.501-06:002023-02-14T20:40:55.501-06:00This is from a report at the Daily Beast: https://...This is from a report at the Daily Beast: https://www.thedailybeast.com/charlottesville-tiki-torcher-teddy-joseph-von-nukem-killed-himself-before-trial<br /><br />Headline: Charlottesville Tiki Torcher Killed Himself Before Drug Smuggling Trial<br /><br />Teddy Joseph Von Nukem, one of the most prominent faces lit by the glow of tiki torches in what became the lasting image of the 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, killed himself as he was due to face criminal trial last month.<br /><br />The 35-year-old skipped out on his first day of trial for a drug trafficking charge in Arizona on the morning of Jan. 30, according to court records. At the very moment a federal judge was issuing a warrant for his arrest, Von Nukem was actually still at his home in Missouri, where he had walked out in the snow behind the hay shed and shot himself.<br /><br />The details were listed in an autopsy report obtained exclusively by The Daily Beast on Tuesday.<br /><br />“Suicide notes were found at the scene, left for law enforcement and his children, however handwriting was somewhat inconsistent,” the coroner’s report states.<br /><br />Von Nukem gained notoriety for attending the Aug. 12, 2017 hate speech rally that aggressively revived a nativist movement in the United States. He glorified the violence, and researchers of domestic extremism suspect he was a key figure in a brutal beating of a black man that day.<br /><br />Von Nukem’s sudden death was initially reported by Molly Conger, an independent journalist in Charlottesville who has become a key anti-fascism researcher in the years since the rally shook the city. An obituary said Von Nukem left behind a wife and five children aged under nine. “Some people knew Ted and understood he was a different type of fellow and had different views of things,” it noted.<br /><br />Sad story.legalschnauzerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09619089628125964154noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3669412675139526125.post-64091521063222333472023-02-14T18:57:05.484-06:002023-02-14T18:57:05.484-06:00As of today Mr. von Nukem (center of crowd photo, ...As of today Mr. von Nukem (center of crowd photo, in black) has ended his life over a $215 fentanyl smuggling charge. Canceled. Expelled. Dumped. Kicked to the curb.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com