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Yonnie3

(19,376 posts)
Thu Nov 9, 2017, 07:33 PM Nov 2017

Update: Single Charge Against Cantwell from Torch-Lit Rally Moving Forward [View all]

It continues ...

A judge is allowing one of three charges against the host of the Radical Agenda radio show to go forward to a grand jury.

Additional law enforcement officers were positioned around Charlottesville's Court Square as 36-year-old Christopher Charles Cantwell appeared in Albemarle General District Court Thursday, November 9.

The New Hampshire man had been charged with two counts of illegal use of tear gas and other gases, and one count of malicious bodily injury in connection to the Tiki torch-lit rally at the University of Virginia on Friday, August 11. He had also been scheduled to speak during that Saturday's Unite the Right rally at Emancipation Park.

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The judge is allowing a charge of releasing a caustic agent to be taken up by a grand jury.

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More at: http://www.nbc29.com/story/36803505/cantwell-court-11-09-2017

It seems so small a charge ...
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