Here are some of the most-shared moments. Livestream clips from the trial have been viewed millions of times on social media. The Infowars host was confronted not just with his past statements about the Sandy Hook shootings, but also with remarks that he’d made about the judge, jury, and trial on his show earlier in the week. In his testimony on Tuesday and Wednesday, a visibly uncomfortable and sweating Jones was repeatedly admonished by Judge Maya Guerra Gamble and brutally cross-examined by the parents’ lawyer, Mark Bankston.
Lewis directly addressed Jones in court before the conspiracy theorist took the stand. A boy witness is recorded telling officers how a bad man suddenly came into his class in army clothes and firing a bazooka. Eleven families of Sandy Hook victims came to the event one month after. The trial to determine damages in the first of these lawsuits that he lost, brought by Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis, parents of victim Jesse Lewis, began July 26. Parents of Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre victims speak during a press conference on Jan. 1, 2021, a Texas judge found Jones liable for damages in three of these defamation lawsuits by default, after the Infowars host failed to turn over documents to the families’ lawyers. The 44th president made the comment while. 'Jack was an incredibly loving and vivacious young boy. 14, 2012, the worst day of my presidency. 14, 2012, during a school shooting at Sandy Hook School in Newtown, Conn. Tens of thousands of adolescents in Connecticut still do not have access to effective mental health care, despite the passage of a 2008 federal law. In 2018, multiple families of Sandy Hook victims and an FBI agent who responded to the scene of the crime brought defamation charges against Jones and Infowars, alleging that his lies made them the target of harassment and violent threats. In this article: Barack Obama calls the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, which took place on Dec. For years, he claimed that “crisis actors” staged the attack. 14, 2012, massacre, which killed 20 children and six adult staff, was an elaborate hoax perpetrated by the government to undermine gun ownership rights. In the aftermath of the tragedy, Jones misled his audience of millions, telling them that the Dec. Tomorrow the trial will continue to the punitive phase, with further awards possible. People gather at the scene of a mass school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School on Decemin Newtown, Connecticut. The jury spent less than a day deliberating the case, awarding more than $4 million dollars in compensatory damages. Infowars host Alex Jones was forced to answer for his years of spreading conspiracy theories as he took the stand this week in a defamation damages trial brought against him by the parents of a 6-year-old child killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting. The six first-graders somehow had escaped from Sandy Hook Elementary School as a gunman shot and killed 20 young students and six educators.
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