CBP chief has no evidence of black-clad Antifa protesters taking planes to protests, says spokesman.
that Kenosha police said that 175 people had been arrested during protests over the shooting. Of those arrested, 73 were from Kenosha. Most of the rest were from Wisconsin, according to the report, while 30 were from Illinois and a few others were from other states. Kenosha, a city of 100,000, is 33 miles from downtown Milwaukee, five miles from the Illinois border, and 65 miles from Chicago.
Kyle Rittenhouse, a 17-year-old from Antioch, Illinois, which is 21 miles from Kenosha, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder for the shooting deaths of two protestors.that Trump’s anecdote about a plane “loaded with thugs” was very similar to a viral Facebook rumor from June warning that a group of a dozen black-clad men from Seattle, including one with an Antifa tattoo, had gotten off a plane in Idaho.
Out-of-state protesters are common, especially at national demonstrations in Washington such as civil rights and anti-abortion rallies. Chuck Rosenberg, an NBC News analyst who is a former federal prosecutor and ex-chief of the Drug Enforcement Administration, said protesters who travel are not inherently violent.
“We have long enjoyed the rights to assemble, travel, march and protest. There’s nothing wrong with that. But what [Morgan is] asserting is ludicrous. And the burden shifts to them to prove it.”Julia Ainsley is a correspondent covering the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice for the NBC News Investigative Unit.
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