5 Antifa Members Arrested on Domestic Terrorism Charges

[Saucy]

Antifa, you know, the group the left says isn't real, attempted to protest a police training facility outside of Atlanta, GA. In fact, the planned on blowing the place up and was caught with explosive. They have been charged with domestic terrorism charges.

Five members of Antifa are in custody on domestic terrorism charges after they were protesting outside of a planned $90 million police training center.

The site of the planned center has been the focal point of protests for months by Antifa who have referred to the site - which protesters have made an autonomous zone - as Cop City. Many of those who were arrested were holed up in treehouses where police later recovered explosives.

Prior to Tuesday's arrests, police detained several people at the site for crimes including destruction of property and arson along with car-jacking and attacks on locals and government officials.

Earlier this week, the GBI said that protesters had begun attacking police and other emergency services workers at the scene with rocks and bottles. After officers cleared the area, they recovered bombs, flares and gasoline, authorities said.

Multiple crimes occurred on Saturday when the local fire department was called to the scene to extinguish a dumpster fire. Richard Porter told WXIA that he was set upon by the group when he attempted to pick up some scrap metal from the area.

Porter said that members of the group threw things at him including a 'gas bomb.' He fled, leaving his truck behind which was burned out. Porter told the channel: 'It seemed to me like they were going to burn the truck with me in it.'

Five Antifa members are charged with domestic terrorism in Atlanta

Five members of Antifa are in custody on domestic terrorism charges after they were protesting outside of a planned police training center in a predominantly black area of Atlanta.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[DaisyDay]

Antifa, you know, the group the left says isn't real

What? Who has said the group isn't real?

I'm glad they were caught before any damage was done.

 

[rambot]

Glad they got caught.

This seems like the appropriate response to this story right?

 

[sandman]

Aren't they the ones who are "mostly peaceful" ....

 

[Margaret3110]

I don't anyone on the left who thinks they aren't real.

 

[GoldenBoy89]

Antifa, you know, the group the left says isn't real, attempted to protest a police training facility outside of Atlanta, GA. In fact, the planned on blowing the place up and was caught with explosive. They have been charged with domestic terrorism charges.

Five Antifa members are charged with domestic terrorism in Atlanta

Five members of Antifa are in custody on domestic terrorism charges after they were protesting outside of a planned police training center in a predominantly black area of Atlanta.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Glad they were caught before they could do anything.

What makes them Antifa members?

 

[essentialsaltes]

From NOT the Daily Fail:

Five people arrested on domestic terrorism charges in clash at Atlanta's 'Cop City' site | CNN

Five people were arrested and charged with domestic terrorism in Atlanta on Tuesday after a clash between activists and law enforcement at a site set to be turned into a state-of-the-art training facility for police, state investigators said.

www.cnn.com

Five people arrested and charged with domestic terrorism over 'Cop City' protest clashes

A joint law enforcement operation was conducted at the future site of a police training center in Atlanta on Tuesday to clear the protest encampment.

www.11alive.com

Latter link provides some perspective on the protest. Not clear if those arrested are part of the protest movement or not.

The protesters have had semi-permanent encampments for about a year in the forested area where the Atlanta Police Foundation intends to build the training facility.

The foundation says, under a plan approved by the Atlanta City Council, that it will build on 85 acres of the site and preserve the remaining 180 acres as green space.

The protesters have opposed the facility on environmental and historical grounds, saying it would decimate one of the largest preserved forest areas in the city and desecrate historically Native American land of the Muscogee Creek people, who once lived in the woods and called it the Weelaunee Forest before being displaced by white settlers in the early 19th Century.

 

[Pommer]

May I inquire why the OP chose AP (not N&CE (AR))?

 

[DaisyDay]

Aren't they the ones who are "mostly peaceful" ....

No, I don't think anyone calls Antifa "mostly peaceful" as they are best known for rumbling against the Proud Boys and other fascists. Perhaps you are confusing them with BLM?

What makes them Antifa members?

Good question. Antifa aren't really known for environmental activism. This seems to be DailyMail's designation for click-bait purposes?

 

[Vylo]

What? Who has said the group isn't real?

I'm glad they were caught before any damage was done.

For a while Antifa was simply an ideology in modern times. Groups like the Proud Boys helped them coalesce into increasing tangible and structured organizations.

 

[DaisyDay]

For a while Antifa was simply an ideology in modern times. Groups like the Proud Boys helped them coalesce into increasing tangible and structured organizations.

Is Antifa structured now? I thought that the only one that was organized was Rose City Antifa - but I don't know much.

 

[disciple Clint]

What? Who has said the group isn't real?

I'm glad they were caught before any damage was done.

Democrat Rep. Jerry Nadler

 

[Larniavc]

Antifa, you know, the group the left says isn't real, attempted to protest a police training facility outside of Atlanta, GA. In fact, the planned on blowing the place up and was caught with explosive. They have been charged with domestic terrorism charges.

Five Antifa members are charged with domestic terrorism in Atlanta

Five members of Antifa are in custody on domestic terrorism charges after they were protesting outside of a planned police training center in a predominantly black area of Atlanta.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Crikey. Protesters in a tree house are terrorists, now?

 

[Larniavc]

Perhaps you are confusing them with BLM?

I imagine to some they all look alike.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Crikey. Protesters in a tree house are terrorists, now?

Only the ones with "explosive devices", it seems.

 

[DaisyDay]

Democrat Rep. Jerry Nadler

When and where? June 25, 2020 he said antifa was imaginary. A month later, he said the violence being instigated by antifa was imaginary.

 

[rambot]

Aren't they the ones who are "mostly peaceful" ....

They are as peaceful as thr people they rally against.

 

[disciple Clint]

When and where? June 25, 2020 he said antifa was imaginary. A month later, he said the violence being instigated by antifa was imaginary.

Looks like you have answered your own question, you asked
DaisyDay said:

What? Who has said the group isn't real? Yes he, Jerry Nadler.

 

[Nithavela]

Looks like you have answered your own question, you asked
DaisyDay said:

What? Who has said the group isn't real? Yes he, Jerry Nadler.

Jerry Nadler is "the left"?

 

[RocksInMyHead]

Good question. Antifa aren't really known for environmental activism. This seems to be DailyMail's designation for click-bait purposes?

Yeah, this strikes me more as a Greenpeace sort of thing - though I imagine that there's some level of crossover between the groups.