Chris Cantwell, the "Crying Nazi" who got famous for his actions during and after the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, VA, in 2017, has now been charged with charges stemming from an incident in which he allegedly strangled a guy in the boarding house where Cantwell has been living.
Also, a fun fact that I learned: Cantwell's dad was apparently one of the air traffic controllers who Reagan fired in 1981 for daring to go on strike. My little brain is all aflutter with "what if" scenarios right now...
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“But more than that, he has a history of trying to play the victim when being caught in his violent acts,” Gorcenski told The Independent . “He did this when he was convicted in federal charges for extortion, he did this when he was sued for participating in a violent conspiracy against civil rights in Charlottesville, and he did this when I swore a complaint against him for violently assaulting me with pepper spray at the University of Virginia.”
From Cantwell’s perspective, Gorcenski went on, “his frequent violence is always just and his victims are always liars.”
“Unfortunately for him, there is rarely much overlap between Chris’s world and the real world,” she said. “I hope one day he learns to take accountability for his actions.”
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