James Alex Fields

James Alex Fields Jr. is a man on trial for events in relation to the August 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville.

Quotes

 * I got the weekend off, so I'll be able to go to the rally.
 * 8 August 2017 text to mother reported on 4 December 2018 by CBS 19


 * We're not the one who need to be careful.
 * 11 August 2017 text to mother reported on 4 December 2018 by CBS 19


 * I'm so sorry I didn’t want to hurt people, but I thought they were attacking me
 * 2017 video interview with police reported on 4 December 2018 by Reuters


 * She's one of those anti-white supremacists
 * 7 December 2017 regarding Heather Heyer's mother Susan Bro, during recorded phone call to James' mother, reported on 4 December 2018 by CBS 19


 * mobbed by a violent group of terrorists They were waving the ISIS flag They support them
 * 21 March 2018 phone call to mother reported on 4 December 2018 by CBS 19

About

 * James Alex Fields Sr. died in an Erlanger crash Dec. 5, 1996, after a vehicle in which he was riding struck a utility pole, according to an Associated Press article from two days later. He was 33 at the time of death. Fields Jr. would be born a little more than five months later.
 * 14 August 2017 by Cincinnati Enquirer reporters


 * This is a prosecution of Fields for Bad Thought, utterly oblivious to not only the Constitution’s double jeopardy clause, but the free speech clause and also simple common sense.
 * 8 August 2018 by Ann Coulter via Breitbart


 * A digital forensics expert just testified that minutes before the tragedy, James Fields used the google maps app on his phone to search for directions back home to Maumee, Ohio.
 * 5 December 2018 by Kristin Smith of 8News


 * In Friday’s memo, Fields’ attorneys highlighted his difficult upbringing and history of mental illness, but many of the details were redacted from public viewing. He was raised by a paraplegic single mother and suffered “trauma” by growing up knowing that his Jewish grandfather had murdered his grandmother before committing suicide, his lawyers said.
 * 22 June 2019 by Alan Suderman of the Associated Press via Global News