Opinion | Amy Spitalnick: 'Suing those responsible for hate crimes has the potential to bankrupt and dismantle the groups at the center of this violent movement.' - NBCNewsTHINK
they believed to be a civil rights worker.
Over the last few decades, other civil suits similar to ours have successfully taken on those responsible for racist attacks. In one particularly instructive case from the 1980s, aagainst the KKK organization delivered a $7 million award from a federal jury. The perpetrators’ property and assets — including the KKK’s massive headquarters in Tuscaloosa, Alabama — were seized, ultimately putting an end to the United Klans of America.
If everything they own now and in the future can be jeopardized, it makes it much more difficult to recruit followers for these horrific causes. That legacy continues here. In addition to collecting on bank accounts, wages, property and any other assets of those involved to help compensate the victims in Charlottesville, should we win, we will also demonstrate the serious legal and financial consequences for participating in such a conspiracy. If everything they own now and in the future can be jeopardized, it makes it much more difficult to recruit followers for these horrific causes.
The last two years have proven that Charlottesville was not an isolated incident but a flashpoint in the rise of extremist violence that’s connected to the attacks that followed. Before killing 11 Jews in a synagogue last October, the Pittsburgh shooter communicated with some of the Charlottesville leaders. The shooter who massacred Muslims inOn and on the series of attacks have gone, each fueling the next as other white nationalists look on and fantasize about how they, too, can take part.
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