Charlottesville witness sues Alex Jones for defamation
The Virginia man whose footage of a car plowing into anti-racist protesters in Charlottesville horrified the nation filed a defamation lawsuit Tuesday against infamous "Infowars" host Alex Jones, former Congressman Allen West and others.
Brennan Gilmore, who is being represented by Georgetown Law's Civil Rights Clinic, claims in a suit filed in a Virginia federal court that Jones and others smeared him as a "shill" for the "deep state" and then mobilized followers to launch a campaign of harassment that continues to this day.
"Today, I'm asking a court to hold them responsible for the personal and professional damage their lies have caused me, and, more importantly, to deter them from repeating this dangerous pattern of defamation and intimidation," Gilmore said in a statement.
There was no immediate response to an emails for comment that were sent to Jones' Infowars media page and to West's personal site.
Gilmore, who was on leave from the Foreign Service, was in Charlottesville last August when a group of white supremacists, neo-Nazis and other far right groups gathered in the historic city for a protest of Confederate monument removal.
It turned deadly when police say James Alex Fields Jr. of Ohio allegedly drove his Dodge Challenger directly into a group of counter-protesters, killing one woman and injuring 19 others people.
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Gilmore posted his video on Twitter and it immediately went viral.
But after that, Gilmore became the target of "an overwhelming volume of hate mail and death threats, hacking attempts and even in-person harassment on the streets of Charlottesville," the complaint states.
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