The verdict caps an emotionally charged, two-week trial in Austin federal court that reconstructed the high-speed confrontation on I-35.

A jury in Texas has cleared five pro-Trump activists but found one liable in a civil trial over a 2020 incident in which they surrounded a Joe Biden campaign bus on the highway. Motorists aboard the bus had accused the six defendants of violating state laws and a federal law used to counter the Ku Klux Klan white supremacist group.