“One minute I’m a fucking white supremacist and the next minute I’m a fucking crybaby?” exclaims Christopher Cantwell, now being held in solitary confinement at the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail out of concerns for his safety. Cantwell has been there since last Wednesday when he turned himself in after two citizen activists swore before a magistrate that he attacked them, when white supremacists clashed with anti-white supremacists August 11 on the campus of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. Be that as it may, Cantwell assures us of his innocence, reasoning that since one of his accusers is openly transgender and other accusers are “taking their talking points directly from the Jews,” their testimony is thereby rendered meaningless — to his way of thinking, not the court’s. Cantwell described the altercation that resulted in his incarceration to The Daily Beast:
"That guy is coming directly at me, and I'm spraying him directly in the face," says Cantwell. "I used the least amount of force possible to prevent that man from harming me in a brawl that my enemies started."
Cantwell also blamed police, who he said forced him and others into counter-protesters.
"They pushed hundreds of armed white nationalists into a crowd of communist rioters who threw rocks and piss and shit and bleach and pepper spray and hit us with clubs and did everything they could to provoke us into shooting them."
One of the two who swore out the warrants against him, Emily Gorcenski, calls Cantwell's self-defense claim laughable.
"It was 300 against 30, and they had us surrounded," Gorcenski told The Daily Beast, recalling the torch rally. "If anyone has a self-defense claim, it's us who were at the statue."
However, Cantwell steadfastly maintains that he is the victim and not the victimizer. “I got assaulted twice in as many days,and now I'm facing 20 years in prison, which I think is pretty fucked up."
Here is the video which earned Cantwell the handle, “Crying Nazi.”