Is Antifa a gang? Trial in street brawl at pro-Trump rally opens a landmark legal test

The trial of two men, charged in a 3-year-old street brawl in a California beach town, could soon reshape the image of one of the most debated political movements in America: Antifa.

Opening arguments Tuesday laid out conflicting views about the roles Brian Lightfoot and Jeremy White played in a heated protest in the San Diego neighborhood of Pacific Beach on Jan. 9, 2021, three days after the Capitol insurrection.

That day, far-right protesters ended up in a string of violent brawls with anti-fascist counterprotesters. Prosecutors, however, focused solely on Antifa, charging 11 defendants with dozens of felonies.

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Georgia police and FBI conduct Swat-style raids on ‘Cop City’ activists’ homes

Atlanta Police Motorcycles Torched By Cop City Activists

Police in Georgia, together with federal agencies, are conducting a crackdown on activists involved in a continuing campaign against a controversial police and fire department training center known as “Cop City” that has included acts of arson and sabotage against equipment being used on the project.

This week alone saw Atlanta-area raids by law enforcement that took a woman out of her house with no shirt, left a naked photo of another woman on display after ransacking a room and dragged a man by his hair – while arresting none of them.

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German Antifa Extremist Jailed for Brutal Attacks in Budapest

The man was part of a group who attacked random people for “looking like” neo-Nazis.

A German left-wing extremist has been sentenced to three years in prison in Hungary, while two of his Antifa accomplices, an Italian and a German woman will be summoned to a Budapest court in May for taking part in violent attacks last year. The case has caused a diplomatic spat, with Italy complaining about the conditions of the prison where the Italian woman is being held, and demanding her extradition by Hungary.

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Far-Left Extremists Take Credit for German Railway Arson Attack

Far-left anarchists have taken credit for an attack on German railways that took place on Friday, September 8th, as three fires broke out on power lines of the Deutsche Bahn, Germany’s national rail company, in the area around the city of Hamburg, leading to the cancellation of all service between Hamburg and Berlin until Saturday.

According to a report from the German tabloid Bild, the suspects managed to enter an isolated area not open to the public and set cables on fire after opening a cable duct. 

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Antifa Blamed for Machete Attack on Presumed Right-Winger

A brutal attack on a man in the city of Chemnitz, Germany, has been blamed on far-left Antifa militants by members of the populist Alternative For Germany (AfD), as German counter-terrorism police investigate the incident that left the victim without several fingers.

The attack took place this week in the Stadtpark just after 3:00 p.m., according to a report from Radio Chemnitz.

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AfD member beaten by usual suspects

Andreas Jurca, running for the Bavarian state parliament for the patriotic Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, was brutally attacked on the weekend after Antifa doxxed a list of addresses of AfD politicians. Instead of arresting the criminals, the police also spread the “assassination list.”

This source suggests the perps may have been Antifa and or Migrants.

h/t Kiki9

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The Jury’s Verdict in Andy Ngo’s Case Against Antifa Sends Shockwaves

At the conclusion of journalist Andy Ngo’s multi-day civil trial against Rose City Antifa, whose far-left militant members brutally beat the investigative reporter when he went undercover to expose Antifa’s extremist activities on the riot-torn streets of Portland, a 12-person jury reached a verdict in the case Tuesday evening, reportedly finding both of the defendants not liable for all claims.

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Antifa Activist Commits Bizarre Suicide After Police Find Child Porn Hoard

A case has developed in Hungary that has come to involve a left-wing member of parliament, the notorious German-based violent far-left extremist “Hammer Gang” and the bizarre suicide of a Hungarian far-left extremist in a small town outside of Budapest.

Antifa activist András Egyed was found dead at an abandoned Russian military base in the town of Biatorbágy on May 18th after allegedly performing a bizarre “ritual” in which he set fire to a baby doll before hanging himself just a few metres away.

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Atlanta “activists” in drive to put fate of controversial ‘Cop City’ on ballot

Volunteers are fanning out across Atlanta looking to get tens of thousands of voters to sign a petition that would put the fate of the controversial police and fire department training center known as “Cop City” on a November ballot, even as organisers have accused the city of unfairly delaying the start of the effort.

Cop City came to global attention after police shot dead Manuel Paez Terán, an environmental protester, in a January raid on the forest – the first incident of its kind in US history. The state says Paez Terán shot first. A special prosecutor is evaluating the case.

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German Prosecutor: Antifa’s ‘Hammer Gang’ Leader Needs More Prison Time

On May 31st, Lina Engel, the leader of the violent far-left extremist Antifa group known as the Hammerbande or ‘Hammer Gang’ was found guilty by the Dresden Higher Regional Court alongside three other members of the gang for violent assaults on real or alleged neo-Nazis and sentenced to five years and three months in prison.

However, the Federal Public Prosecutor General of Germany based in Karlsruhe has now appealed the sentence, demanding that Engel face at least eight years in prison for her activities, according to a report from the German tabloid Bild.

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Leipzig forbids fresh far-left demo after 2 nights of unrest

City authorities in Leipzig said on Sunday that they would forbid another planned left-wing protest for the evening in the city.

This follows two nights of violent clashes between police and protesters, with Leipzig police saying that 50 officers sustained injuries over the course of the weekend.

A spokesman for Leipzig’s city council told the German dpa news agency the ban on another protest on Sunday was based on “the experience of Saturday evening.”

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Germany: Police break up banned far-left Antifa protest in Leipzig

Left-wing protesters wanted to gather to protest a jail term given to a woman for attacking neo-Nazis. Despite court bans, police first tried to accommodate the protest, but broke it up when officers came under attack.

Several police officers were injured in the eastern German city of Leipzig on Saturday in clashes with left-wing protesters.

Leipzig police spokesman Olaf Hoppe described the situation as “very dynamic,” with “sometimes massive clashes here in the south of Leipzig.”

He said that “roughly 1,500 people” turned up to the demonstration, even though several courts had refused to authorize it.

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