Sandy Hook Mom Wins $965M Lawsuit Against Alt-Right Leader Alex Jones

On Wednesday, a Connecticut court ordered alt-right influencer Alex Jones to pay $965-million dollars in damages to families of 8 Sandy Hook victims and an FBI officer, who Jones has publicly maligned over the years. On December 14, 2012, a gunman walked into Newtown Elementary School and killed 26 people. Immediately after the horrific murders, Jones began telling his followers that incident was fictional. “I wanted to be a mom. I wanted to focus on my surviving son,” says Nicole Hockley, whose son was killed in Sandy Hook. Instead, Hockley says she received threats online and at home. “I'm always afraid because you never know who’s around you that might believe Alex Jones's lies and think that you are a traitor or think that you’re having a government payout– think that your son never died or never lived– that you’re just a crisis actress. It affects everything about me and makes it very hard to just be a mom who lost her son.” Hockley says she doesn’t know if the historic verdict will stop Jones. He may be too “narcissistic” to grasp the consequences of his actions. However, she hopes the billion-dollar verdicts against him will deter others from spreading lies to hurt people for profit. “We all have to be more critical about our thinking.”


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[kevingalligan]

What happened to those weapons of mass destruction that were definitely in Iraq? Do we get 1 billion dollars for being lied to? Do the soldiers and their families get compensated for the US govt and the medias lies? If causing mental anguish is worth 1 billion, watching your friends die in combat, seeing civilians die, PTSD, and losing both your legs must be worth like a trillion dollars right? If were just making up numbers that no one can actually pay and never will why not make em huge right?

[allywilkeforsenate]

I'd be a lot more understanding
of why Alex Jones needs to pay a
billion dollars for false reporting
if I didn't watch the corporate
media do the same thing every
day with zero consequences.

[Dennisaj]

*"While I agree that Alex Jones was TOTALLY WRONG for what he did, there's no freaking way any of these families deserve tens of millions of dollars, let alone one billion dollars."*

[nicolasgullo]

I personally think it’s ridiculous that this trial even happened. What ever happened to freedom of speech?

[TomJerry-izye]

No family members needs to relieve child being lost and then treated as if its a lie.. I seen a mother silently cry hold her 5 year old lifeless body in her arms. Its was a day it changed my family life. So yes i fill your pain .

[christicrenshaw]

" I get emotional just talking about it". Yeah right.

[Anonymous-rnfp]

"Sticks and stones can break my bones but Alex Jones can never hurt me" should be the next pledge for these super fragile plebs.

[StigmataMarty]

The families of OJ’s victims only got $35 million

[miesvaillanykyisyytta]

He should pay her 500 dollars. Jones merely covered what others were saying about the Sandy Hook incident; he did not come up with the rumors.

[wilber]

I didn't believe in the hoax until I saw the interview with the guy smiling and prepping himself to look sad and sound sad before his interview. Which was then cut out of the video for CNN. Honestly that dude has to be an actor that or he did not care about his child

[moistpeanut]

Alt right leader, Alex Jones…

Trump is not going to like this

[yoyo]

You could blow up someone's house and it wouldn't cost this much to repair.

[DazmonW]

They can't do that to him it's against our rights how is this even possible?

[fratermunky]

Now they're trying to sue him for 2.75 TRILLION dollars. That just proves that they're in it for the money.

[Faltye]

I agree with the parents, however the judge should be disbarred for thinking one billion dollars is a fair price to pay for words. (As terrible as the may be)

[barryhahn]

What did she actually win because Alex Jones isn't a billionaire? Let's keep things in proper perspective.

[bobbifreedman]

Alex is destroyed. Get him off the air. Monster.

[freedomadvocate]

We're with you Alex! Good luck brother.

[maxsmith]

There are many cases in the USA in which a person is convicted of a crime and then the case is re-examined years later. 

" The First Amendment to the US Constitution guarantees a free Press. Embrace that freedom, do not rebuke it, or sideline it's purpose and merit."

Benjamin Franklin - Philadelphia July 4th, 1792.

[jasielm]

Literally you guys do everything you blame jones of….