Watch TOUGH Guy Neo-Nazi CRYING Like A B*TCH, 'I'm Terrified'
Published on Aug 16, 2017
Neo-Nazi Christopher Cantwell is a big tough guy until there’s a warrant out for his arrest. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian, the hosts of The Young Turks, break down his sobbing video.
“Christopher Cantwell, a neo-Nazi who featured prominently in Vice News Tonight’s viral documentary of the Charlottesville protests that ended in terror, released a teary video addressed to police after learning of the warrant for his arrest, claiming “I’m terrified, I’m afraid you’re going to kill me, I really am.”
In the video, which you can watch above, a choked up Cantwell claimed that he was told there is a warrant out for his arrest, and that he was attempting to contact the police as he didn’t think it safe to “go anywhere.”
After a few pauses to pull himself together, a choked up Cantwell claimed “I want to be peaceful, I want to be law abiding, okay? That was the whole entire point of this.”
“And I’m watching CNN talk about this as violent, white nationalist protest — we have done everything in our power to keep this peaceful,” he said. “We are trying to make this peaceful, we are trying to be law abiding.”
Those comments, of course, strike as wildly detached from reality. Cantwell, along with other white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups, first descended on Charlottesville Friday night, gathering around a statue of Robert E. Lee with burning torches, throwing Nazi salutes and chanting “Jews will not replace us.”
Duke University on Saturday removed a statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee, days after the carved limestone likeness was vandalized amid a heightened debate in the U.S. about Confederate monuments.
The university said it removed the statue in the early morning from Duke Chapel where it stood among 10 historical figures in the entryway. Another statue of Lee was at the center of a fatal protest in Charlottesville, Virginia, last week.
University president Vincent Price said in a letter that he conferred with members of the campus community, including faculty, staff, students and alumni, to make the decision. Officials had found early Thursday that Lee's face had been deliberately damaged.
“I took this course of action to protect Duke Chapel, to ensure the vital safety of students and community members who worship there, and above all to express the deep and abiding values of our university,” Price said in the letter.
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Price said the statue's removal presents "an opportunity for us to learn and heal. The statue will be preserved so that students can study Duke’s complex past and take part in a more inclusive future."
City officials and police in Durham, North Carolina, said they faced hundreds of counter-protesters Friday afternoon who had gathered against what they thought could have been a Ku Klux Klan march.
The counter-protesters burned confederate and white supremacist flags and held an impromptu dance off. They carried signs that said "We will not be intimidated," "History will not repeat" and "Black Lives Matter."
Other statues in North Carolina have been damaged since the Charlottesville protest.
Earlier this week, a video of protesters toppling a statue in Durham went viral. Protesters put a rope around the statue’s neck, toppled the monument and began kicking it. The defacement was part of a rally in solidarity with Charlottesville, according to protesters. Eight were arrested by the Durham County Sheriff's office.
More than 700 Confederate statues and monuments exist in 31 states. That does not include things like homesteads and museums, according to The Southern Poverty Law Center.
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