BREAKING: The DOJ has brought TERRORISM-related charges against members of Antifa for the first time
Two individuals who were involved in an attack on ICE agents in Alvarado, Texas, Zachary Evetts and Cameron Arnold, were indicted by a federal grand jury, and charged with:
➡️ Providing material support for terrorism ➡️ Attempting to murder federal and assisting officers
➡️ Discharging firearms during attempted murders
“For the first time ever, the FBI has arrested anarchist violent extremists and charged these Antifa-aligned individuals with material support to terrorism,” FBI Director Kash Patel told Fox
🚨 BREAKING: The DOJ has brought TERRORISM-related charges against members of Antifa for the first time
Two individuals who were involved in an attack on ICE agents in Alvarado, Texas, Zachary Evetts and Cameron Arnold, were indicted by a federal grand jury, and charged with:… pic.twitter.com/xDKtldPDoL
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Federal prosecutors have secured a grand jury indictment of two alleged followers of the antifa movement on terrorism-related charges stemming from their involvement in a July 4 attack on an ICE detention facility in Alvarado, Texas, according to newly unsealed court records.
The indictment appears to be the first time a charge of material support to terrorism has been applied to alleged followers of the anti-fascist movement, following President Donald Trump’s declaration officially designating the movement as a domestic terrorist organization.
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Experts have repeatedly questioned the legality of that proclamation — as did senior officials in law enforcement during Trump’s first term in office — given that the movement has no publicly known leadership structure and there are significant statutory limitations on law enforcement being able to designate domestic groups as terrorists.
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The two men who were indicted, Cameron Arnold and Zachary Evetts, were previously charged in connection with the alleged ambush of federal agents at the ICE facility and attempting to kill two correctional officers and an Alvarado police officer, but the grand jury indictment charges both with an additional count of providing material support to terrorists.