The money will go straight to the pockets of family members who lost children in the massacre, and to an FBI agent who was harassed by Alex Jones’ listeners. There were 15 plaintiffs in total.
played out in Waterbury, Connecticut, 20 miles southwest of where 26 people were killed just over a decade ago. Jury deliberations began on Oct. 6. Only compensatory damages owed by Jones were determined on Wednesday, and jurors will decide at a later date whether Jones must also pay punitive damages.
During the trial, Jones struggled to keep his cool while on the witness stand, even blurting out at one point that he was done saying sorry. The family members who sued Jones in Connecticut said they were tormented by strangers who were inspired by his Infowars webcasts. They argued their harassers were convinced—solely by Jones—that one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history was a massive con ordered by Democrats to build support for gun restrictions.
“To hear that people were desecrating it and urinating on it and threatening to dig it up,” Barden said of his son’s grave. “I don’t know how to articulate to you what that feels like. But that’s where we are.”Other plaintiffs said they were forced to move multiple times to escape the hate set off by Jones’ lies, which he regularly repeated on his daily shows.
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