Neo Nazi Christopher Cantwell cries for help
A MAN who admitted to being violent during the Charlottesville protests was reduced to tears over fears he will be arrested.
A WHITE nationalist who admitted to being violent during the Charlottesville protests has appeared in a tearful video revealing his fears of being arrested.
Christopher Cantwell appeared in the now viral documentary Charlottesville: Race and Terror where he defended his alt-right views to Vice News Tonight correspondent Elle Reeve.
In the documentary, Reeve spoke to white nationalist leaders including Cantwell, Robert Ray from the Daily Stormer website, David Duke, and Matthew Heimbach.
She also spoke to counter-protesters in the lead up to last Saturday’s violence.
But it was Cantwell who captured the most attention after he admitted to being violent and also blamed Jewish and black people for causing trouble.
He also defended the driver of a car which rammed into counter protesters leaving one woman dead.
The 22-minute documentary aired on Monday night in the US and contained footage of last Friday night’s white nationalist march on the campus of the University of Virginia.
It also showed Saturday’s violent clashes in Charlottesville including the moment a car allegedly driven by Alex Fields Jr hit a crowd of protesters, killing Heather Heyer, 32.
The documentary was a special episode of Vice News Tonight which appears on Vice’s daily news program on HBO.
The documentary was posted to YouTube and has amassed more than 580,000 views.
‘I’M TERRIFIED’
In a 16-minute message uploaded to YouTube just hours after the Vice footage was shot, Cantwell is seen sobbing.
“I called the Charlottesville Police Department ... and I said, ‘I have been told that there’s a warrant out for my arrest,’” he said.
“They said that they wouldn’t confirm it but that I could find this out if I wanted to go a local magistrate or something.”
“I don’t know what to do. I need guidance.
“We are trying to make this peaceful, we are trying to be law abiding,” he said in reference to police.
“I’m terrified. I think you’re going to kill me.”
That Nazi who said he was "trying to be MORE violent" on the @vicenews special is out here bawling about being arrested for...being violent. pic.twitter.com/LAaycdlIn3
— Holly O'Reilly (@AynRandPaulRyan) August 16, 2017
Cantwell also admitted to Vice to being violent during the weekend protests but claimed it was in self-defence.
“If I have to go to jail today, it won’t be the first time...I don’t want to, I don’t think I should...I’ve been engaged in violence ... and I’ve done nothing to hide that, but it was done in defence of myself and others,” he said.
Cantwell’s YouTube account was deleted on Wednesday, Storyful reported.
In a phone call given to Digg, Cantwell denied there was a warrant due out for his arrest and said Charlottesville Police “has a list of people to round up”.
He also said he stood by the comments in the controversial documentary and maintained Fields acted in self-defence.
RACIAL DIVIDE
Cantwell, a white nationalist speaker for Unite the Right, told Reeve he got into the whole racism issue following the Trayvon Martin case.
Trayvon, a black teenager, was shot dead by George Zimmerman in Florida in 2012.
Zimmerman was found not guilty of murder in 2013, a decision that convulsed the world and ignited debates on race relations, gun control and American justice.
“It’s some little black ***hole behaving like a savage and he gets himself into trouble shockingly enough,” he said.
Here are some other statements he made during the documentary:
ON TRUMP:
Cantwell told Reeve he wanted to spread his ideas and talk in the hope that someone will listen but wasn’t sure if Donald Trump was the person to do it.
“Somebody like Donald Trump who does not give his daughter to a Jew (Jared Kushner),” he said.
Reeve asked if he means someone like Donald Trump but more racist.
“I don’t think you can feel about race the way I do and watch that Kushner bastard walk around with that beautiful girl,” he said.
ON VIOLENCE:
Cantwell insists he comes in peace yet admitted to trying to make himself more violent by carrying a gun and going to the gym.
“I’m trying to make myself more capable of violence,” he tells Reeve.
She asks him if the alt-right are as non violent as they claim to be.
Cantwell said they aren’t immune to violence but didn’t initiate it during last weekend’s events.
“We’re not nonviolent, we’ll f******* kill these people if we have to,” he said.
ON THE DEADLY CAR RAMMING
Cantwell insisted protesters brought it on themselves and the driver of the car was simply defending himself.
Speaking to Reeve and showing her his cache of weapons, Cantwell said the fact that nobody on his side died was “points for us”.
Reeve pointed out the car that struck a protester was unprovoked which he said was untrue.
Cantwell tried to justify the action by saying the driver was trying to get away and defend himself.
“And sadly because our rivals are a bunch of stupid animals who don’t pay attention, they couldn’t just get out of the way of his car and some people got hurt,” he said.
He told Reeve it was unfortunate but he believed it was justified and that his people had actually shown a huge amount of restraint.
Watch the full documentary Charlottesville: Race and Terror here.
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