Georgia DA Indicts 61 Antifa Activists on RICO Charges

[Valletta]

“As this indictment shows, looking the other way when violence occurs is not an option in Georgia,” said Carr. “If you come to our state and shoot a police officer, throw Molotov cocktails at law enforcement, set fire to police vehicles, damage construction equipment, vandalize private homes and businesses, and terrorize their occupants, you can and will be held accountable.”

Georgia Attorney General Indicts 61 Antifa Activists on RICO Charges | National Review

The indictment identified 225 criminal acts allegedly committed by activists trying to prevent the construction of a police training facility.

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There are thousands around the country who committed violent acts and need to be held accountable. This is a start.

 

[Hank77]

The indictment focuses on Defend the Atlanta Forest, an environmental group described by the attorney general’s office as an “anarchist, anti-police, and anti-business extremist organization.”

The indictment says the group’s purpose “is to occupy of parts or all of 381 forested acres in DeKalb County, Georgia,”

I have a low tolerance for violent environmental groups. They've caused some horrible harm to loggers in the past.

 

[essentialsaltes]

The actual counts are interesting.

5 people are charged with domestic terrorism and arson.
3 are charged with multiple counts of 'money laundering', which appears to be using charitable donations to pay for food and supplies at the camp.

The other 53 people aren't charged with anything but the conspiracy.

You may recall how people scoffed that conspiratorial acts in the Trump RICO case included 'making phone calls' and what not. In this case we have:

Obviously, we will have a trial and evidence. If it comes out that Emily Murphy conspired to set fire to police cars, then so be it. She can take her lumps. But the sense I get is that people who were making legal protests have been portrayed as conspirators with the violent offenders. So I predict the number of guilty pleas and verdicts will be closer to 5 than 61.

 

[SimplyMe]

Antifa is becoming one of those words that the the far right media is using to a point that it merely means "a group we don't like." The group here is Defend the Atlanta Forest, which the indictment and even the article correctly identify (though the article still uses the buzzword "Antifa").

Having said that, I believe like most everyone else that will comment, I have no issue with charges being filed, even the RICO ones, for those that committed criminal acts.