White supremacist Chris Cantwell arrested for three felonies after turning himself in

[brooklynite]

Source: New York Daily News

Chris Cantwell is being held in Blue Ridge Regional Jail after surrendering to the Lynchburg Police on Wednesday afternoon, according to the Daily Progress.

The far-right blogger was arrested on two counts of illegal use of tear gas and one count of malicious bodily injuries.

Cantwell was prominently featured in a Vice News documentary about the white supremacists, neo-Nazis, and other far-right groups gathered in Charlottesville on Aug. 12.

He acknowledged pepper-spraying a counter-protester but insisted he was defending himself, saying he did it “because my only other option was knocking out his teeth”.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/white-supremacist-chris-cantwell-turns-article-1.3437446

[George II]

1. That's this crybaby, isn't it?

[brooklynite]

2. His mother plans to clean the basement over Labor Day weekend.

[George II]

3. Including the disposable diapers? BTW, he gave his phone number on that video.....

....it's a Long Island, NY area code. Another alt-right white supremacist from hundreds of miles away.

[Leghorn21]

4. From the SPLC website:

“[M]y goal here is to normalize racism,” he explained to Hatewatch in one of two interviews for this profile. “I'm going to make a commercial enterprise out of saying things that people want to make illegal. I'm going to make a whole fucking bunch of money doing it. Anybody who gets in my way is going to find themselves in a very long list of people who regretted underestimating me.”

Who knew - big bunches of money to be made right there in the Blue Ridge Regional lockup! Sweet gig there, eh, Can't?

[George II]

8. You don't "make a whole fucking bunch of money" punching out license plates in the slammer....

....it pays about twenty cents an hour or a carton of cigarettes.

[Midnight Writer]

11. "Normalize racism". Goebbels said his goal was not to change minds. Simply "normalize" what people

are already thinking.

This is the rotten fruit of our communication technology, i.e. the Internet. No matter your perversion, your hate, your ignorance, you can go online and find a "community" that tells you that you are not alone, that justifies your crap as "normal', 'common sense", "free speech", "religious freedom" or some other righteous catch phrase.

[Maraya1969]

5. There was a video of people pouring milk on his face after being maced last Friday

Did he mace himself? I ask?

[Pachamama]

7. I thought the same question

Probably what happened is he was filmed macing someone and then got himself, therefore needing then the milk....

[Tanuki]

15. That was a different fascist crybaby, the one who calls himself "Baked Alaska"

https://m.

[yardwork]

16. Cantwell got tear gas in his eyes too. I saw the film.

He blamed it on communists. Looks like the idiot maced himself.

[Tanuki]

17. It's hard to keep them straight....they all talk tough but cry for the "local milk people"

to rescue them. You're right...I wouldn't put it past any of them to have gotten down wind of their own mace spraying or to mace themselves for drama.

[yardwork]

20. They're all remarkably inadequate.

[Maraya1969]

21. That one guy said, "He got hit with bear mace" That must have been their own and

either he hit himself by mistake or one of his group hit him. Normal people don't walk around with bear mace.

[better]

6. You know the real beauty of all of this

If he's convicted, he just might lose the right to own those firearms he was so proud to show off.

[calimary]

9. Welcome to DU, better!

True enough. But with a proudly in-yer-face (and well-established and documented) asshole like this, would you expect him to comply with that penalty? I sure wouldn't. To me, he shows himself to be a first-class weasel, who'd try to skirt the rules and get away with whatever he could.

He's a VERY damaged human being. Can't help but wonder who brought him up.

[SergeStorms]

13. Sounds like it might have been Fred Trump.

From the description you gave of Cantwell, it sounds amazingly like Don the Con, right down to the "first class weasel". Do you think he could be Fred Trump's illegitimate son?

There are so many assholes like them, though, so I guess maybe it's just a coincidence.

[calimary]

22. Yeah, I know! SO many assholes, so little time...

[dixiegrrrrl]

25. Oh, yes...what a beautiful thought!

Welcome to DU..

[LS_Editor]

10. SAD!

So very, very sad. Pathetic, really.

[iluvtennis]

14. Kind of sad, that law enforcement never located him for an arrest. Don't think they looked.

[GoCubsGo]

18. Your only options were pepper spray and punching someone in the mouth?

Really? Think harder, you spineless asshole. You had plenty of other options besides those two, all of which didn't involve committing violence on another person. You made your piss-soaked bed, and now you get to lie in it.

[catbyte]

19. I almost feel sorry for him. He wanted to come off as such a badass on HBO, but now

he'll be forever known as "The Weeping Nazi."

Just kidding about the almost feeling sorry for him.

Karma's a bitch.

[dixiegrrrrl]

26. You know what is even better?

that fake swagger/bragger attitude of his with get him in trouble with his cellmates.
All he knows is to either falsely brag or to cry.

[Hieronymus]

23. Well deserved.

[Norbert]

24. I just hope the orange shitgibbon...

doesn't make overtures to pardon this asshole like he did the racist asshole former sheriff.

[CanonRay]

27. Bet he's having another sad tonight

no mama's cooking in the shithole