Christopher Cantwell, White Nationalist in Vice Video, Braces for Charges
In it, Mr. Cantwell is shown calling for an “ethno-state” and saying
that the death of a 32-year-old woman who was killed protesting a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., on Aug. 12 was justified, adding, “I think that a lot more people are going to die before we’re done here.”
A week after the broadcast, Mr. Cantwell has emerged as a high-profile activist for the so-called alt-right.
I just wanted him to not hurt me.”
In an interview on Monday, Emily Gorcenski, an activist for transgender rights, said she
filed a report against Mr. Cantwell with the University of Virginia police on Aug. 12.
“The first thing you’ve got to understand is my job is to shock people,” Mr. Cantwell,
36, said in the first of two telephone interviews on Friday and Saturday.
The night before, she said, she was standing to Mr. Cantwell’s right when he used some kind of pepper spray on a group of counter-protesters
that demonstrated against the torch-lit march Mr. Cantwell and other white supremacists held on campus.
Since the rally in Charlottesville, the prospect of an arrest has loomed over
Mr. Cantwell, who posted a video on Aug. 12 in which he choked back tears.
The Virginia State Police said it made at least three arrests,
and the University of Virginia said its Police Department arrested at least one person at an Aug. 11 demonstration.
