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Christopher Cantwell shows VICE the arsenal he brought with him to Charlottesville. (Credit: VICE Media)

But along with that infamy came three felony charges, for which Cantwell says he will turn himself in sometime today.

This afternoon, he told Hatewatch in a brief phone call that he was 鈥渋n the process 鈥� right now鈥� of turning himself in to police, and he didn鈥檛 want to answer further questions.

鈥淚 don鈥檛 want to f------ talk politics with you. Goodbye,鈥� he said, and hung up.

According to the Associated Press, Cantwell faces 鈥渢wo counts of the illegal use of tear gas or other gases and one count of malicious bodily injury with a 鈥榗austic substance,鈥� explosive or fire.鈥� He鈥檚 being charged for an incident on Friday, August 11, when he used pepper spray against a counter protester.

In his widely circulated, tearful video 鈥� posted when he was still in Charlottesville 鈥� Cantwell expressed his fears about being wanted by law enforcement, pleading to police, 鈥淚鈥檓 afraid you鈥檙e going to kill me. I really am.鈥� His attitude is surprising 鈥� as Cantwell himself points out later in the video, this is certainly not his first brush with the law.

He was first jailed in 2000 after pleading guilty to three misdemeanors: 5th degree criminal possession of stolen property, 4th degree criminal possession of a weapon and driving while intoxicated. He says he served four months out of a six-month sentence.

While discussing that period of his life, Cantwell said, 鈥淚 was involved in so much bullshit when I was a teenager, honestly, that鈥檚 like what I got caught for was the least of the shit I did.鈥�

He was briefly incarcerated a second time in 2009 after another DWI, for which he took another plea deal. In 2015, he got involved with law enforcement again when he during a dispute with strangers in Keene, New Hampshire, where he lives. After reviewing his video, police did not file any charges. Cantwell wrote about the incident on his blog, Radical Agenda, in a post called,

Cantwell is fond of extreme 鈥� often disturbing 鈥� violent rhetoric. On multiple occasions he has advocated killing police officers and government officials, and in a 2014 speech, claimed he had at one time considered going on a shooting rampage.

鈥淢y mind went to very dark places,鈥� he said. 鈥淚 was going to go out blasting and take as many of them with me as I could.鈥�

In the past two years, he has shifted his ire away from law enforcement and onto minorities. On his radio program in January 2015, he expressed sympathy for mass murderer Dylann Roof.

鈥淚 would go ahead and I would say that I don鈥檛 know that Dylann Roof made the f-----鈥� best use of his life by f------ throwing it away on these f------ animals in the goddamn church,鈥� Cantwell said. 鈥淏ut I understand what he鈥檚 going through, right?鈥�

His venomous racism and anti-Semitism were on full display during the VICE documentary, as was his aggression, when he told the reporter:

听I鈥檓 carrying a pistol. I go to the gym all the time. I鈥檓 trying to make myself听more听capable of violence. I鈥檓 here to spread ideas, talk, in the hopes that somebody more capable will come along and do that.

So it was strange when, near the end of his emotional video post, he told his audience, 鈥淚f I was a violent guy, you would have heard about it by now.鈥�

Indeed, he is 鈥� and indeed, they have.

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