he and emily's mom, alissa parker, wanted to be the first ones to speak about her and they wanted anything that would be said to come from them. instead, it was a sea of reporters and, blinding camera lights and. so as he stepped to a lectern quite this one he gave you know just a sort of smile and a kind of laugh and then he started what was really a heartbreak, aching tribute to his daughter. alex jones seized on split second of that laugh. he called the entire disgusting and for years, replayed this video. but just that moment, and called robbie an actor. a soap opera actor, a liar. and who, you know, profited from his daughter's faked death. so people instantly recognized him and including this man on the street in seattle all, four years later. so he still remains silent for all of those years because he didn't want to poke the bear, was really afraid that, you know, the whole family was afraid that if he spoke up about this or if he confronted people or, you know, went public with what was happening to them, you know, people sending, them these letters confronting them, one man was w

but then in 2018, robbie and alissa parker sat down with parents, a girl who died in the parkland shooting. and they described a phenomenon which was absolutely similar to what robbie had endured after he spoke publicly. the father of this girl who died at parkland said i. i said a few things publicly. and now people are attacking me online and confronting me. and that was when he thought, this isn't going to go away. these people are not going to move on to the next target. in fact, they move on to the next target. but retain all the other targets and they continue. and so he felt like, i really need to step. and he joined the lawsuit that the families of ten sandy hook victims in total filed in the middle of 2018. it took robbie until october of that year to join that lawsuit. but he was at the centerpiece of this case, which resulted in the $1 billion judgment this week. so i first got interested in this in mid 2018 when the family's filed these four separate lawsuits, because i felt like this would be a very test of the first amendment. does the first amendment and our right to free sp