The lawyer representing Alex Jones in his Sandy Hook defamation trial has apologized for the heated courtroom fight. Jones’ attorney clashed with the plaintiff’s attorney Wednesday and gave him the middle finger. “I apologize for yesterday’s outburst,” F. Antino Reynal said in a Texas court on Thursday.
The lawyer representing far-right conspiracy broadcaster Alex Jones in his defamation suit for falsely claiming the Sandy Hook massacre was a “hoax” apologized Thursday for a heated courtroom argument and gave the middle finger to the plaintiff’s attorney one day in advance. “I apologize for yesterday’s outburst,” Jones’ defense attorney, F. Antino Reynal, told a Texas court Thursday before the jury entered the courtroom, adding, “It was not appropriate.” Reynal also said he apologized for his actions in an email to the plaintiff’s attorneys, who are representing the parents of one of the 20 young children killed in the 2012 Newtown, Connecticut mass shooting at the school. Travis County Circuit Court Judge Maya Guerra Gamble addressed Wednesday’s standoff in the courtroom as proceedings began Thursday, saying, “The next time somebody wants to argue, you have to take it out.” “It’s not going to happen in here,” Gamble said. Reynal and Mark Bankston, the Sandy Hook parents’ attorney in the civil case, argued in the courtroom Wednesday over video evidence in the case. Jones’ attorney accused Bankston of showing the 12-member jury “short clips of select videos” from Jones’ InfoWars broadcasts about the Sandy Hook shooting, while arguing that he was barred from showing longer videos. After Gamble left the courtroom, Raynal approached Bankston and cocked him during the confrontation, video of the incident shows. Raynal repeatedly called Bankston a “liar” before giving Bankston his middle finger, the News-Times reported. Jones, the founder of InfoWars, has already been found liable for defamation by a Texas court and a Connecticut court for repeatedly telling his audience that the Sandy Hook massacre was a “giant hoax” staged by the government with “actors ». The story continues Alex Jones.AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, Archive A jury in the trial will determine how much money Jones must pay Sandy Hook parents Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis, whose 6-year-old son Jesse Lewis was killed in the shooting that left 26 dead. Heslin and Lewis are seeking $150 million in damages for Jones’ repeated lies about the deadliest school shooting in US history. Read the original article on Insider
