President Donald Trump and Attorney General William Barr have repeatedly blamed antifa for violent protests. Reuters found little evidence of such links in U.S. prosecutions of those charged in protest violence
FILE PHOTO: Police officers look on as a car burns in the back as protesters continue to rally against the death in Minneapolis police custody of George Floyd, near the White House, in Washington, U.S., May 30, 2020. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
The Department of Justice declined to comment on Reuters’ findings and referred to an interview that Barr gave to Fox News on Monday. He said there that while his department had some investigations under way into antifa, it was still in the “initial phase of identifying people.” Only one group was called out by name in a federal complaint: the so-called boogaloo movement, whose followers, according to prosecutors, believe in an impending civil war.
A man in Lubbock, Texas, 25-year-old Emmanuel Quinones, brandished an assault rifle at a protest and shouted: “This is a revolution” and “President Trump must die” as he was arrested, according to prosecutors. He admitted to posting messages on social media aimed at intimidating Trump supporters. Quinones’ attorney declined to comment.
Michael German, a former FBI agent and current fellow with the Brennan Center for Justice, said the government could produce more evidence at trial, but the “lack of clear indications of involvement of anti-fascists in these protests I think shows they are not leading in any way the protest violence.”
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