Christopher Cantwell, White Nationalist in Vice Video, Braces for Charges<br />In it, Mr. Cantwell is shown calling for an “ethno-state” and saying<br />that the death of a 32-year-old woman who was killed protesting a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., on Aug. 12 was justified, adding, “I think that a lot more people are going to die before we’re done here.”<br />A week after the broadcast, Mr. Cantwell has emerged as a high-profile activist for the so-called alt-right.<br />I just wanted him to not hurt me.”<br />In an interview on Monday, Emily Gorcenski, an activist for transgender rights, said she<br />filed a report against Mr. Cantwell with the University of Virginia police on Aug. 12.<br />“The first thing you’ve got to understand is my job is to shock people,” Mr. Cantwell,<br />36, said in the first of two telephone interviews on Friday and Saturday.<br />The night before, she said, she was standing to Mr. Cantwell’s right when he used some kind of pepper spray on a group of counter-protesters<br />that demonstrated against the torch-lit march Mr. Cantwell and other white supremacists held on campus.<br />Since the rally in Charlottesville, the prospect of an arrest has loomed over<br />Mr. Cantwell, who posted a video on Aug. 12 in which he choked back tears.<br />The Virginia State Police said it made at least three arrests,<br />and the University of Virginia said its Police Department arrested at least one person at an Aug. 11 demonstration.
