The seven-member jury ordered Eliazar Cisneros, a chef and Navy veteran, to pay the bus's driver, Tim Holloway, $10,000 in compensatory damages. It also levied a $30,000 fine in punitive damages against Cisneros,

Civil rights advocates hoped a guilty verdict would send a clear message about what constitutes political violence and intimidation.

Only one of the six Trump supporters who were sued in the civil trial was held responsible by the jury. A Texas man whose car brushed up against another as the caravan of vehicles dubbed the "Trump Train" raced down Interstate 35, was ordered to pay the bus driver $10,000 and another $30,000 in punitive damages.