page_title: Christopher Cantwell
section_title: Unite the Right rally
hierarchical_section_title: Christopher Cantwell / Unite the Right rally
caption_attribution_description: English: Christopher Cantwell at the Charlottesville Unite the RIght rally. This picture was taken directly after Cantwell was pepper-sprayed on the East side of the park.
context_page_description: Christopher Charles Cantwell, also known as The Crying Nazi, is an American neo-Nazi, antisemitic conspiracy theorist, and federal informant.
  Part of the broader alt-right movement, Cantwell gained attention during and immediately after his participation in the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Cantwell was featured prominently in a Vice News Tonight documentary about the rally and its participants, and is shown threatening to kill protesters, wielding rifles and a handgun, and joining fellow antisemitic conspiracy theorists in marching with tiki torches, chanting "Jews will not replace us!"
  Cantwell also received considerable public attention for a video he uploaded shortly after the rally in which he choked back tears and wept while sharing that he had learned there was a warrant for his arrest. The video went viral, with some observers noting the discrepancy between the emotional video and the tough persona Cantwell had projected in the Vice documentary. He has since been widely referred to and ridiculed as "The Crying Nazi".
  In July 2018, Cantwell pleaded guilty to two counts of misdemeanor assault and battery for pepper spraying two people at the rally.
context_section_description: Cantwell participated in the Unite the Right rally held in Charlottesville, Virginia on August 11–12, 2017. He was featured prominently in "Charlottesville: Race and Terror", an episode of Vice News Tonight about the rally and the groups who were present. He is first pictured marching through the University of Virginia campus among a group of white supremacists carrying tiki torches and chanting "Jews will not replace us." He later is shown bragging about carrying guns, working out, and "trying to make [himself] more capable of violence," later saying "We're not nonviolent. We'll fucking kill these people if we have to."
caption: Christopher Cantwell pepper-sprayed at Unite the Right
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