1 Sunday ` proudly brought to you by Mazda. Tonight on Sunday ` the murder of Coral Burrows, Mum was like, 'Where's your sister?' It's now more than 33 hours since Coral Burrows was last seen in Featherston. I'm a horrible, horrible, horrible, man. This is the place where he killed my baby. but has Coral's death saved other lives? I don't want another Coral Burrows case. Also, funny girl Rebel Wilson - the tabloid lies that nearly killed her career. They have no idea how brutally hard it is. People were calling me a liar and a fake. Yes, I'm an actress and I'm in the public eye, but I'm a human being. Sorry. ALL CHANT: No KKK, no fascists, USA! And inside the far left group WOMAN CHANTS: Black lives, they matter here! ...taking up arms. I would argue we're in a new Civil War. Captions by Starsha Samarasinghe Captions were made with the support of NZ On Air. Copyright Able 2018 Kia ora, I'm Miriama Kamo. This week Coral Burrows should be celebrating her 21st birthday, but she never made it past the age of 6. Coral was brutally murdered by her mum's boyfriend in a case that shocked us all. Tonight, in an emotional interview, Coral's family takes us inside the desperate search for their little girl, and we reveal her incredible legacy. Here's Jehan Casinader. (POIGNANT MUSIC) Storm, I need you to tell me a little bit about you. I need you to tell me your full name. Storm Thomas Ross Burrows. Storm Thomas Ross Burrows. OK. And how old are you? 8. (TENSE MUSIC) And we're talking about your little sister Coral, aren't we? Mm-hm. Your sister went to school with you yesterday. Yeah. And then and then she's gone somewhere now and we don't know where she is and that's why we're having a talk. She was missing since 8.30 in the morning. OK. STORM: You wake up some mornings and go, 'Why the hell am I getting up at this time?' You just gotta push through it. JEHAN: When the milking shed's full, Storm Burrows is in his happy place. (WHISTLES) He's one of the Waikato's top young dairy farmers. Why have you been so determined to build a good life for yourself? Because my sister never got to. So I wanna do her proud and me proud at the same time. With just two years between them, Storm and Coral were best buds. Coral loved the outdoors? Yeah, whenever we went outside to ride motorbikes or go fishing, she always wanted to come. She never wanted to be left out. She sounds like she was a bit of a tomboy. Yeah. She never really dressed like a girl. It was more bloody trackies and that and whenever we were getting muddy and that, she was there with us. But their simple childhood in Featherston was shattered on a spring morning in 2003, when they were driven to school by their mum's boyfriend. She didn't really wanna get out of the car when we got to school. Where were you sitting? In the front seat. In the front seat. Where was Coral sitting? In the back right-hand side. I got out of the car, like normal, and just ran into class. And did you see her at all before school started or through the morning or the rest of the day? No. She just disappeared. When I got off the bus at the end of the day, Mum was like, 'Where's your sister?' I was like, 'I dunno, I thought you'd picked her up'. And that's when the panic started. Coral hadn't been in class all day but because of an admin error, her school didn't realise she was missing. NEIL: The call went out that there was a missing 6-year-old girl in Featherston. Detective Neil Foote was one of the first on the case. I think the fact that it was a 6-year-old girl. That was a focal point for the rest of the country. There was a lot of hope that it was gonna be a good outcome. By the next day, that hope had turned to fear. (1 NEWS THEME) Good evening. The search teams are still out, but with every hour that passes worry grows over the fate of a 6-year-old Wairarapa girl. It's now more than 33 hours since Coral Burrows was last seen in the small town of Featherston, and there are few clues as to where she may have gone. STORM: I still didn't know what was going on. I knew she was missing but I didn't know anything else. Her bag wasn't in the classroom. She ran off with her bag on her back. And she has no water so she'll probably be thirsty right now. OK. I remember just being around there with lots of family and friends and looking for my sister, yeah. Among the searchers, Storm and Coral's dad, Ron Burrows. RON: There was companies delivering us gumboots and truckloads of meat. People just overwhelm you with their generosity and this sort of thing. Search volunteers came from all over the country. SEARCHERS: Coral! Coral! I think Coral and her smile is what inspired them. She loved hugs. She used to come up and you'd say, 'What do you want, Moo?' and she'd go, 'Just a cuddle, Daddy'. I often think she was sent here to teach me how to hug. (CHUCKLES) (KNOCKING) After a week of heavy rain, searchers were no closer to finding Coral. If the boot was on the other foot and it was me lost out there, my daughter wouldn't give up on me, even if I'm the last person going, I'll still search for her. I had a daughter that was the same age as Coral during the investigation, and the majority of the staff were parents. We had a sign up in our office that said 'How hard would we work if it was our daughter?' You know, we were exhausted, but then we'd see the sign and then we'd kick in again. (SINISTER MUSIC) But right from the start... (CAMERAS CLICK) detectives feared that Coral had been taken out of Featherston. The day after Coral went missing, her schoolbag was found floating in this creek. Now that told the police two things ` one, she hadn't just wandered off from school. Her school's on the other side of town; and two, it meant that someone knew where she was. The main suspect... her mum's boyfriend Steven Williams. He took Coral to school on the morning she disappeared. We were concerned right from the beginning especially when we went to the house. Steven, he was on the couch asleep. It was just really odd when you've got a room full of hysterical people, and in that same room, you've got somebody who's potentially the last person that saw Coral, asleep on the couch. I knew straight away it was Steve. That was the first thing I said. Williams had 88 convictions, but police couldn't prove that he'd hurt Coral, so he was allowed to join the search. He looked all nervous and rattled, and he wasn't really searching cos he knew where she was. So you were searching for Coral alongside her killer? Yep. We knew it and the police knew it. We figured if we put Steve with us, he would hear the hurt he was causing, and it would eventually break him down, you know? With the help of Williams' mother Police worked to win his trust. And after days of questioning, he confessed. (SOBS) It's all right, my boy. It's all right. Oh, Steven. What have I done? It's all right, my boy. Horrible, horrible, horrible man. It's all right. It's all right. 10 days after she went missing, Coral's family was told she'd been murdered. The atmosphere was almost electric. The screams that went out ` it was kind of bone chilling. It was like a part of me died, you know. My chest ached. I was devastated. Come out here, you gutless wonder! (METAL CLANGING) Williams admitted he'd been smoking P. When Coral wouldn't get out of the car, he lost the plot, and attacked her in the back seat. The terrified and disbelieving look that must have been in Coral's eyes as you punched and hit her. The little hand that came up and tried to fend off the blows will haunt you for the rest of your life. She's so tiny, how could you do it? Coral was unconscious, but still alive. If he had have told everyone on day one what had happened and where she was, she could still be here. She may have been handicapped because of what had happened, but she'd still be alive. Instead of taking Coral to hospital, Williams drove half an hour out of town. He dragged her body into this clearing, then bashed her head with a branch. (SIGHS) Ron has never been here before. Can't put it into words, really, how I feel. TEARFULLY: I know this is the place where he killed my baby. (SIGHS) And you're happy to go to where Coral is and to show us where she is? Yes. OK. I need Jeanna and the family to be put at rest. (CRIES) I don't want them to suffer. Steve Williams was a killer, but he did manage to do one decent thing. He brought the police down the end of this long lonely road on the shores of lake ferry. The search for Coral was over. We found the bush where he'd discarded her. Was it over there? The only way that she could get in that bush was for Steven Williams to throw her like a bag full of rubbish and land her in the middle. It was a real prideful thing that we managed to get her back to you guys, and then Steven was held accountable for what he did. Ron wants to make peace with a place that haunts him. It was devastating actually to go there, but it was something I needed to do for Coral. He's wearing the same beanie that he wore for the search. To go there and look across the water ` it's quite freeing in the end. It felt calm there. Especially because he knows that Coral hasn't been forgotten. All the teddy bears up there on the gate? They're all for Coral. For 15 years, this fence has guarded the entrance to the spot where her body was found. That one's new. The teddies are a reminder of the impact of Coral's death, not just on her family, but on the whole country. People have gotta come a long way to put these here to remember her. They're still coming. They don't forget. (SNIFFLES) Welcome to Oranga Tamariki. Next ` how Coral's death has saved the lives of other Kiwi kids. I don't want another Coral Burrows case. New Zealand doesn't need another case like this. Plus ` reunited after 15 years. It's really special to know that we can both see her in in each other. 1 (LAUGHTER) It's a magic cake. This is the last birthday party Coral Burrows ever went to, just a month before she died. It'd be interesting to see what she'd be like now. Bloody 20-year-old. It'd be havoc. (CHUCKLES) If she was still alive, Coral would be celebrating her 21st this week. She'd be probably somewhere amazing, doing a tiki tour around Europe or doing some extreme. She'd be a rebel. Kimberley would know. She was Coral's best friend. The last time that I can remember seeing her, it was just such a beautiful day and we were in such high spirits. If I can just pause it and relive it over and over and over, I would. The next time she was with Coral, it was at her funeral. Coral's best friend 6-year-old Kimberley Dittmer, a little girl coping bravely with her loss. Dear Jesus, I hope you find Coral soon and she is safe at home with her family and you find her today. Love, Kimberley. And for ages I thought maybe she was just she was just away and she'd come back. But then I watched her coffin go out and I remember saying, 'Is that her in there?' 'Is she in there ` in that box?' And where is she? She's somewhere with the angels. Kimberley hasn't seen Coral's dad since the day of the funeral. I just remember this little girl just coming up and giving me the meanest hug. And to see her now, grown... Good to see you, girl! (BOTH CRY) I was thinking of you know what Coral would be like now. Yeah. Kimberley and Ron have both struggled to figure out what life looks like without Coral. It's been a huge impact on not just my life, but everyone's life, really, and obviously it shook our town quite a bit. Shook the country, really. Throughout her childhood, Kimberley blamed herself for Coral's death. Maybe if I had done something different, she'd still be here. During high school, she struggled with depression. On and off medications, you know, I was in Year 11 at school and I walked into the doctors after doing a bit of self harm. Even now it's still hard to deal with. Don't hurt yourself. No, I won't. I'd be devastated if something happens to you, OK? (BOTH CRY) Coral's death was also felt deeply by detective Neil Foote. He'd become close to the family, and prepared the clothes for Coral to be buried in. She was really into pink. She loved butterflies. My partner, she went and bought some butterfly clips to put in her hair and we're just standing there around the ironing board just bawling our eyes out. I remember the day we buried my sister in Matamata. She was buried with her favourite teddy. Teddy and a doll. How did you feel about what Steve had done? Hated him. I knew he hated spiders completely, any spider, so I wanted to just get a big box of spiders and just send them to him in prison. Just torment him a bit. Still never really sunk in until I got to my teenage years. I don't have a sister anymore. Not that's alive anyway. Coral has left a big hole in the lives of all her brothers and her stepmother Sarah. What hurts the most is that her death could have been prevented. Ron: I wish you were still here, baby. On the back of Coral's headstone is a chilling picture she drew just before she died. It was very clearly a picture of a police car, outside a house. The family were together and Coral drew a picture of herself off to one side. That's her missing. It was almost snapshot of the future. It was the last thing she drew. See you later, Moo. Love you. Ron sees the picture as a cry for help. He'd noticed changes in Coral's behaviour months before her death. After Steve moved in, she was upset a lot of the time, and if somebody raised their voice to them she'd run and hide. Coral started soiling herself and hiding under tables at school. The change was so dramatic, I knew something was going on. So he rang Child Youth and Family. What did Ron Burrows say in that phone call? Mr Burrows raised concerns about the safety and wellbeing of both his children. We took some notes of the conversation. There was no subsequent investigation based on those notes. So no one went round to check whether Coral was all right? No, there was none of that. And nine months later she was dead. That's right. A damning inquiry found that CYF had failed to protect Coral. My true feeling is that she was let down. Greg Versalko was hired to fix the call centre, which was in chaos. And, believe me, it was really hard. The first two or three years were very, very difficult. He oversaw massive changes to the way abuse notifications are recorded and investigated. If a similar call was to come in today, the call would be recorded. There'd be a full and complete and proper assessment of the situation. Is that child safe? How close is the possible perpetrator to that child? That's all followed up? All followed up. We'd also ensure that the staff taking the call had proper clinical supervision and appropriate training. New Zealand still has a shameful record of child abuse. but Greg says the changes made because of Coral's death have saved lives. Coral's legacy to us is that we have got better. We can still do better. I don't want another Coral Burrows case, whether I'm working here or not. New Zealand doesn't need another case like this. I travel quite a bit and often go through the town where Coral is buried. When a child does pass away, it's not as if we look at it as a number. This is a tragedy which we feel as well. So you think about Coral in the context of your work now? Absolutely. Absolutely. All the time. What do you think people expected your life to turn out like? Probably downward spiral of drugs and violence, but, you know, just didn't wanna end up like that. And what do you think the future holds for you? Eventually owning a farm and some cows would be nice. My sister didn't get a chance to live her life, so I kinda live mine like for both of us. That's the advice Ron has given all his sons. Be the best person you possibly can. Because people are gonna be looking at you and saying, 'That's Coral's brother'. And they're determined to give her... She loved the sparklers, actually. ...the 21st birthday she truly deserves. Just for you, babe. Hope you're watching this from heaven. (BIC RUNGA'S 'GOOD MORNING, BABY') # I see the stars and all the planets, # fly the great wide world and have it all. # Yeah, better get a ticket, better get in li-i-ine. # I'm praying now for beautiful weather. # Take a car and drive forever. # But I'm only ever sitting at the traffic light. # And all the world to see is too much sometimes for me. # Good morning, baby, I hope I'm gonna make it through another day. # Good morning, baby, I hope we're gonna make it through another day. # Good morning, baby, I hope I'm gonna make it through another day. # Good morning, baby, I hope I'm gonna make it through another day. # Oh, oh, oh. # Well, Coral's mother Jeanna Cremen did not want to be interviewed, but told Sunday if she'd known Steven Williams posed a risk, she would never have allowed him near her kids. She remains devastated by Coral's death, but is very proud of Storm. Now, if you believe a child could be in danger, please ring Oranga Tamariki. Next ` Aussie superstar Rebel Wilson called a serial liar ` the vicious court battle to restore her reputation. I thought, I just have to sue them. FAN: I love you, Rebel! It's very, very stressful when you become in the centre of a scandal. Yeah, and it was so salacious. Sorry. 1 Hello again. Rebel Wilson ` she's been in New Zealand this week and loving it. She's funny, cute, but, of course, there's more to this Aussie actress than the characters she plays. Three years ago, her career was dealt a massive blow, labelled a serial liar in a spiteful tabloid campaign. With movie offers drying up, Rebel took the magazines to court. Here's Melissa Doyle on set in Spain with Rebel. Shot 500, take one. (SNAP!) (LAUGHS) We know she's funny, but today Rebel Wilson is also in charge. Producing and starring in her own film ` a remake of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels here in Majorca. Rebel has had to create her own roles out of necessity. Two years ago, her career was dealt a savage blow, just as it was taking off. A series of magazine articles painted her as a serial liar. So I went from this girl who has just worked her absolute arse off to get where she was to just being torn down in a second` in a 24-hour period. Rebel became embroiled in a vicious court battle over her own life story and reputation. It's very, very stressful when you become in the centre of a scandal. Yeah, and it was so salacious. People were like, 'Oh, she fabricated her whole life to make it.' 37-year-old Rebel Wilson had been working her way up through the acting ranks for 17 years. I had an agent meeting that I went to and they said, 'Oh, we can't really see you being in Home and Away, 'so we don't think we could help you.' And so what I had to do was just write my own stuff. And that was what actually got me noticed in America. # Cos, yeah, I'm getting cool # at the public pool! # But Rebel's television characters are strikingly different to the woman behind the image. I think people think I'm a crazy party girl, and I'm like, 'If I really was like some of my characters, I really wouldn't be in my position that I am today.' And a lot of the time when people find out that I went to one of the best law schools in Australia they're like, 'Oh, I thought you was dumb.' I got a free tattoo. A small part in Bridesmaids got Rebel noticed in Hollywood. Even though I was a bit shy and I didn't look like your typical Hollywood actress, I always, for some reason, had this confidence and thought, if I keep trying, I can do it, even the face of so much rejection. (CHUCKLES) What's your name? Fat Amy. Um, you call yourself Fat Amy? Yeah, so twig bitches like you don't do it behind my back. But her breakthrough role was Fat Amy in the smash hit Pitch Perfect. Fat Amy made Rebel a star. I'm not supposed to have any ideas. I'm the hot one. Um, I'm pretty sure I'm the hot one. And all of a sudden, the phone's ringing. Everyone's like, 'Rebel, this is what you've been waiting for.' Like now you're going to be paid millions of dollars per movie. (REPORTERS CLAMOUR, PEOPLE CHEER) Just when Rebel thought she'd made it, international publishing giant Bauer Media printed a string of articles in Woman's Day, Woman's Weekly OK, and NW, accusing her of being a fake and lying about her name, her age, and her upbringing. The story that exploded wasn't just in Australia. It went all around the world. Rebel Wilson at the centre of a firestorm about her age. The actress claiming she was younger than she actually is. An Australian tabloid discovered she was 35. People were calling me a liar and a fake. These people just sat in their offices in Australia and went, (CLICKS TONGUE) 'She's super popular, we're gonna bring her down.' Yes, I'm an actress and I'm in the public eye, but I'm a human being who worked really, really hard to get to that point, and then to have it all taken away was just... it was just malicious and it was ugly. OK, where are we? But for Rebel, the repercussions were much bigger. In the middle of filming How To Be Single with Dakota Johnson, the phone stopped ringing. Month after month came and instead of all the movie offers that I was gonna get, I got nothing. And doors that were opened just shut, and I got fired from two family movies that I'd already completed, which was probably, like, my lowest point. I thought, 'I just have to sue them.' FAN: I love you, Rebel! I won't be intimidated and I'm here ready to tell my side of the story. Under intense cross examination, she proved she hadn't lied about her age. On the advice of her agent, she'd simply chosen not to reveal it. She only proved she hadn't lied about her name. Born Melanie Bounds, she legally adopted her family nickname in 2002. You'd never think you would need to prove your own life. What was really hurtful is that their strategy seemed to be just bully, harass, and sling any kind of mud they possibly could at me, and also my family, for a month. And what gets me emotional is when my mum gave evidence at the trial and she's like, 'This is a girl who went to LA with just`' Sorry. '...with one suitcase and pillow and a doona, and now she's made it.' And these people have no idea how actually brutally hard it is to make it over there, especially being someone like me who's not, you know, a glamour kind of actress. Justice John Dixon delivered the jury's verdict. Rebel had been maliciously defamed. Bauer Media appreciated the risk of reputational damage to the plaintiff and did not care whether Ms Wilson suffered it, as it pursued its own corporate objective. How was the day when you won? Awesome. (CHUCKLES) It felt like this massive weight was lifted off my shoulders. Rebel Wilson was awarded the largest defamation payout in Australia's history ` $4.56 million. Now Rebel is back to where she started, as the character that launched her Hollywood career ` Fat Amy. Fat Amy ` she's become such an iconic character, which I'm so proud about. You are this champion of girls. Young women think you rock. And I take that really seriously and I try to be a good role model for them by working hard and trying to be a good person. Rebel is working hard. She has her own production company. So we're on the set of the remake of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Yes, and this is your movie. Yes, that's right. Two years ago I had an idea, and now here we are with 300 employees making the movie. The movie co-stars Academy Award-winner Anne Hathaway. Lemme show you how classy it is to be in a Hollywood movie. Oh, wow. This is my area. I have healthy snacks and I have Mars bar. (LAUGHS) Now that the career seems back on track, I feel like hopefully I can have more balance in my life and aim towards that. Well, good on her! But the court action is developing. Just last week other Australian media companies joining Bauer's appeal against the record payout. Next ` we know there's the far right now meet the far left. Self-proclaimed anti-racist, anti-fascist and anti-capitalist, and causing a stir in the US. Black lives, they matter here! Go in there and get ready to get hit! I would argue we're in a new Civil War. I'm not gonna let people fly swastikas freely on the streets of the United States. All right, son, put it down. 1 Welcome back. Donald Trump's polarising presidency has sparked plenty of extremism. We've met the radical right, but tonight we go inside one far left group taking up arms, they say, to protect America from Neo-Nazis. Stephanie March starts this extraordinary story in rural Tennessee as a far right demonstration unfolds. This city of 21,000 looks like it's preparing for an invasion. Thank you. Register on the table. Police are as worried about the far right as they are the far left ` those who call themselves Antifa ` anti-fascists. Is that to make sure none of the rascal leftists don't get all crazy? Brandy Campbell lives in the state next door ` North Carolina. A few months ago, she joined the local branch of a national far left group called Redneck Revolt. They claim to be anti-fascist, anti-racist and anti-capitalist, and are sometimes armed. (SIRENS WAIL) All right, folks, they're coming in! Put up a fist in solidarity! (CROWDS CHEER) BRANDY: This is not normal. This isn't acceptable. Now we see this narrative that is completely condoned and even promoted by the president, by Cabinet members, allowing really evil and detrimental ideology to take root. How do you explain people who allow themselves to spout that kind of rhetoric? That's evil. (CHUCKLES WRYLY) Across the barricades is white nationalist leader Matthew Heimbach, once described as the youthful affable face of hate in America. This group just one of 1600 extremist groups active in the US at both ends of the political spectrum. We care about your children! And the future of our race! ALL CHANT: White lives matter! Do you think you have undercover cops here mingling? White lives matter! White lives matter! White lives matter! White lives matter! White lives matter! White lives matter! White lives matter! Sorry. Anyway, as you were saying. Heimbach wants a homeland for whites only in the US ` a segregated utopia in middle America, where people of colour are not welcome. What's wrong with having a multicultural America? A multicultural America leads to tension, as we see all over the world. Multiculturalism leads to strife, so we think everyone has a right to their own land, but we have a right to this land. We paid for it in our own blood, and our own sacrifice. And no one has a right to take it away from us. You guys forgot your sound system, you forgot your people. Sad Nazis. We came! Hate crimes mainly targeting African Americans, Muslims and immigrants have increased two years in a row across the country, and they're on track to rise for a third. The goal of groups like Matthew Heimbach's is to normalise racism. We will march, we will struggle! Why do you think that whites have a right to America, though? Well, we're the ones that were able to settle, to build on a nation here. We were able to come and conquer it and build, and be able to create this civilisation. This is ours. In terms of a right to be here, why go back two or three or four generations and say those people should move? Why not go all the way back to the first peoples that were here and say everyone that came after should get out? Well, because we made treaties for this land and we won it fair and square. The white nationalists here are outnumbered, and drowned out by their more vocal opponents. ALL CHANT: Black lives matter! Black lives matter! Make some noise if you're from Middle Tennessee and you hate Nazis. (LOUD CHEERING) ALL CHANT: No Nazis! No KKK, no fascist USA! Fort. All right, everyone, shields. All right, ladies and gentlemen. You did an amazing job today, so everyone load up, get together, let's form this convoy up, cos this is fundamentally about us as one big family. So thank you, guys, and hail victory. ALL: Hail victory! (REFLECTIVE MUSIC) We want to know more about the people on the other side, who call themselves anti-fascists, or Antifa. So we've come to Durham in North Carolina with Brandy Campbell ` the protester we met in Shelbyville. Redneck Revolt is an anti-fascist, anti-racist community support group. Redneck Revolt say its movement is growing rapidly. From a handful of chapters a year ago, they claim there are now more than 30 nationwide. Anti-fascist groups are being criticised by both the right and the left for their willingness to use force. They risk a backlash from the far right and Police, but also from their own employers and families. Holding on to the jaw and the sides of the head. Today it's medical training and member Dwayne Dixon's house. The goal, they say, is to be a broad community support group and helping people be self-sufficient in all aspects of their lives. They run food banks and do first aid training, but their most striking feature is their commitment to armed self defence. But nobody really wants to get shot. Most folks don't wanna be a martyr, so the reality is, there's a Nazi over there with a gun, I wanna make sure I've got a gun too. (GUN CANISTER CLICKS) I grew up in a military family on my father's side. His uncle, my great uncle, was a marine. My grandfather was a bomber pilot during World War 2. And then my father was a career army officer. Also my parents are fundamentalist Baptist. So I always say that I grew up with the sword of the Lord in one hand and the sword of the State in the other. Dwayne Dixon's an Anthropology professor who joined Redneck Revolt in 2016. Reclaiming the word 'redneck' is supposed to be a salute to America's rural working class ` a group he sees as downtrodden. Redneck Revolt is about taking back power from government and big business. How do you justify the use of violence as a tactic? When the left uses violence, in the rare cases that it happens, it's resistance. When those actions are taken, it's because some other kind of threat has already materialised, and therefore that danger coming from far right action, justifies and necessitates some kind of intervention with force. (ALL CHANT) Coming up ` how the violence in Charlottesville rallied the anti-fascist groups. ALL CHANT: You will not replace us! I'm not gonna let people fly swastikas freely on the streets of the United States. Holy shit! That Nazi just drove into people. (OMINOUS NOTE) 1 (ALL CHANT) It was this event in Charlottesville Virginia in August 2017 that galvanised many anti-fascist groups, including Redneck Revolt. ALL CHANT: You will not replace us! You will not replace us! The 'Unite The Right' rally was described as the largest far right gathering in a generation. White nationalist groups marched against city council plans to remove a statue of a Civil War general, only to be met with counter protesters. (PEOPLE CLAMOUR) This is not just about free speech, right, these are people with clearly stated intention to carry out violence against people of colour, against queer folks, against women, and they're not just speaking, they're marching. They're marching in a way that's intimidating. As we all know, it's clearly harking back to the torchlight rallies of the Nazi era. (PEOPLE CLAMOUR) The next day, the fight continued. Redneck Revolt came armed. They intentionally hung back from the main clashes. Our purpose was to provide a static community defence parameter. Our goal was to never move around, to never intimidate by being a mobile unit that would somehow suggest possible violence through carrying our weapons through the streets. We are just going to protect the parameter of the park. We stay down the sidewalk the entire day. They say they were invited by a black anarchist group to provide protection, but many on the left were shocked to see their own side carrying weapons. Whoa, hey, how's it going? That's pretty hard-core, man. We weren't necessarily a welcome presence. The weapons didn't stop the chaos. Police failed to intervene, and were later pilloried for their inaction. There was violence on both sides, but the right took it to a new level. CHANTING: Our streets! Our streets! Our streets! (PEOPLE SCREAM) Holy shit! Holy shit. That Nazi just drove into people. A white supremacist allegedly drove his car into a group of counter protesters, injuring more than 30 people, and killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer. What happened in Charlottesville is pretty unimaginable. It's unimaginable in its incoherence, that this is the United States. How did you feel leaving Charlottesville? Like I had left a battlefield. Clearly no one could have predicted what it turned into. This really striking watershed moment in contemporary US history. (FOLK MUSIC) Hey, how are y'all? Hey, Chance. 'Bout time! I know, man. Sorry. (CHUCKLES) How you been doin'? It's good to meet you, man, I'm Dwayne. Extreme circumstances can create strange bedfellows. And they don't come much more strange that this ` Dwayne Dixon and his leftist crew have come to meet Chance Allen, a member of an armed militia called the American Pit Vipers, in the hope of forming an unusual alliance. Right there is one target we got cleared open. Allen's a Trump-voter. His group's committed to aiding law enforcement and defending free speech, including by the far right. He first encountered Redneck Revolt at a pro-Trump rally, when one of his members tried to assault one of theirs. What did you think about Antifa groups a year ago? A year ago, it was just complete utter hatred. That's all there was to it. From what I thought, originally, that they was just 100% anti-American. Shocked by the violence in Charlottesville, both groups now recognise a common cause in civil defence. Yeah, one time I was solid right, but then it comes back down to once I started seeing the bullshit out there and want to know the facts and get to learn, that's when I started realising 'We The People' means we the people. We're all the people. All right, everybody put your earphones on. Shooter, you ready? I'm trying to get them to point their guns in the right direction. This one, once you charge it, you want to make sure that your muzzle's basically clear, right? For us, having access to weapons and having the skill and competency with them allows us to at least consider that among a diversity of possible tactics. This doesn't mean that they're gonna be used all the time. We're not willing to abdicate our own security to the state. Now try to bring it up to your shoulder. There you go. These groups do not represent mainstream America. Out of a population of more than 320 million, they're on the fringe. But in a country awash with weapons, the growing divisiveness signals a deeply troubling shift. As we saw by the strong presence at Shelbyville, Police are taking the treat of violence more seriously. Both sides say they'll do whatever it takes. America is a house on fire and flooding simultaneously, in a Lovecraftian horror hellscape. For our people, for our future. My children's life depends on me to be able to build them a better world to grow up in. And I don't want them to grow up in this one, as a hated and despised minority on the land that their ancestors gave their blood and their lives to build for them. Like four inches, five inches. I'm not gonna let people fly swastikas freely on the streets of the United States. And Dwayne Dixon was charged for bringing a semi automatic rifle to a protest, but a judge dismissed it last month. Up next week ` fighting ISIS in Syria. The Kiwi freedom fighters taking a stand. That's next week, and that's our show for tonight. Do join us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram ` SundayTVNZ.