1. Shortly after the rally, Christopher Cantwell published a video in which he wept while sharing that he had learned there was a warrant for his arrest.
49 Facts About Christopher Cantwell
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The video went viral, with some observers noting the discrepancy between the emotional video and the tough persona Christopher Cantwell had projected in the Vice documentary.
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Christopher Cantwell has since been widely referred to and ridiculed as "The Crying Nazi".
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In July 2018, Christopher Cantwell was convicted after pleading guilty to two counts of misdemeanor assault and battery for pepper spraying two people at the rally.
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On September 28,2020, Christopher Cantwell was found guilty on one felony count of transmitting extortionate communications and one felony count of threatening to injure property or reputation.
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Christopher Cantwell was sentenced to three years and five months in prison on February 24,2021.
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Christopher Cantwell's father was an air traffic controller, IRS agent and the owner of a landscaping business.
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Christopher Cantwell has a younger brother as well as a half-brother and a half-sister, the latter two stemming from a previous relationship of his father.
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Christopher Cantwell attended Ward Melville High School in East Setauket, New York, but left school and did not graduate.
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Christopher Cantwell received his GED while serving his first jail sentence in 2000.
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In 2012, Christopher Cantwell moved to Marlborough, New Hampshire, before returning to New York in 2013 and relocating to Keene, New Hampshire in 2014.
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Christopher Cantwell has worked as a landscaper, an overnight technical support provider, and later started his own computer consulting business.
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Christopher Cantwell writes essays on his personal blog about topics including white supremacy, alt-right politics, libertarianism, and the men's rights movement.
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Christopher Cantwell has written for and republished essays about the men's rights movement to A Voice for Men, a men's rights and antifeminist website.
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Christopher Cantwell co-hosted the anarcho-capitalist radio show Free Talk Live but was suspended in 2015 after tweeting a racial slur against an African American person who criticized him.
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Meanwhile, in December 2013, Christopher Cantwell began what he originally called Some Garbage Podcast, disseminated through YouTube and elsewhere, and in April 2015 renamed it Radical Agenda, subtitled "a show about common sense extremism".
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In January 2019, Christopher Cantwell created a more toned-down version of Radical Agenda called Outlaw Conservative.
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Christopher Cantwell posted on his blog that he believes he was the one who was banned, after he discovered his profile had been blanked and he was unable to log in, and it was later confirmed the banned user was Christopher Cantwell.
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Christopher Cantwell has described himself as a member of the alt-right, a fascist, and a libertarian.
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Christopher Cantwell has been repeatedly expelled from libertarian organizations because of his violent and racist views.
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Christopher Cantwell has held strong anti-police views, including advocating for violence against police officers.
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Christopher Cantwell has posted photographs of himself dressed as a police officer who had been shot in the forehead for a 2014 Halloween party, and later that year he applauded the man who killed two police officers in New York City.
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Christopher Cantwell went to Keene, New Hampshire to be part of the protest group Free Keene, which is associated with the Free State Project.
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In reply to a message from Auernheimer condemning other people for talking to police, Christopher Cantwell is shown saying "I talked to cops too, gonna talk to the feds soon most likely".
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Christopher Cantwell was featured prominently in "Charlottesville: Race and Terror", an episode of Vice News Tonight about the rally and the groups who were present.
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In 2000, at age 19, Christopher Cantwell pleaded guilty in Suffolk County, New York to driving while intoxicated, criminal possession of a weapon, and criminal possession of stolen property.
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In March 2018, Christopher Cantwell was charged with public swearing and intoxication in Loudoun County, Virginia.
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Christopher Cantwell ultimately pleaded guilty to this misdemeanor and paid $116 in fees and court costs.
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Christopher Cantwell was sentenced to two concurrent jail sentences of one year with all but seven months suspended, and he was released from jail.
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Christopher Cantwell was banned from publicly discussing the two people he attacked at the rally.
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Two days after the sentencing, Christopher Cantwell made a thinly-veiled reference to the two victims in a social media post in which he boasted about "gassing" them.
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Christopher Cantwell pleaded guilty to violating of the terms of his pre-trial release by making the social media posts, and was fined $250.
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In October 2017, Cantwell was listed as a defendant in Sines v Kessler, the federal civil lawsuit against various organizers, promoters, and participants of the Unite the Right rally.
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Christopher Cantwell was listed in the lawsuit as a "promoter" of the event.
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Christopher Cantwell was originally represented by attorneys Elmer Woodard and James Kolenich.
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In January 2020, he wrote and filed a plea which included a long quote from Adolf Hitler, whom Christopher Cantwell described only as a "famous 20th century statesman".
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Christopher Cantwell was among the defendants found liable for racially-motivated harassment or violence.
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Christopher Cantwell filed a pro se appeal on March 20,2023, arguing that the jury held "improper passion and prejudice", and that he couldn't adequately prepare his defense as he was imprisoned on unrelated extortion charges.
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Christopher Cantwell was involved in a feud with members of the Bowl Patrol, a loose group of white supremacists who name themselves after the bowl haircut of the perpetrator of the 2015 white supremacy-motivated Charleston church mass shooting.
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Christopher Cantwell made violent threats towards the group, and followed through on threats to contact law enforcement, including the FBI, about pranks perpetrated by its members.
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Prosecutors later alleged that Christopher Cantwell emailed law enforcement more than 50 times over a four-month period in 2019.
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In September 2019, Christopher Cantwell met with the FBI thinking he was helping form a case against the Bowl Patrol members.
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On January 23,2020, Christopher Cantwell was arrested by the FBI and charged with extortion over interstate communications and making threatening interstate communications in relation to the threats made against CheddarMane.
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Court filings alleged that several days before his arrest, Christopher Cantwell used Telegram to threaten an attorney working on a lawsuit against him and others involved with the Unite the Right rally.
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Christopher Cantwell was set to go to trial in March 2020, but the trial date was postponed to September 15,2020.
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The federal trial began on September 22,2020, and on September 28,2020, Christopher Cantwell was found guilty on one count of transmitting extortionate communications and one count of threatening to injure property or reputation, and found not guilty of the cyberstalking charge.
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Prosecutors asked for Christopher Cantwell to be sentenced to 51 months in prison; Christopher Cantwell's defense attorneys requested he be sentenced to time served for the thirteen months he spent in jail since his arrest.
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Christopher Cantwell appealed the conviction to the First Circuit Court of Appeals in October 2021, which upheld the convictions in April 2023.
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Christopher Cantwell was arrested on March 2,2025, and charged with one count of felony strangulation as well as simple assault and criminal mischief.