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Five people pleaded guilty Wednesday to terrorism-related charges after being accused of supporting antifa in a July shooting that injured a police officer. texas Immigration detention center.
The President followed suit after allegations were made by the Justice Department. donald trump Signing an order that designated the decentralized movement known as Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization. Trump has held Antifa responsible for political violence.
FBI Director Kash Patel The charges in Texas are the first time antifa has been targeted by a charge of material support for terrorism, previously said. A police officer was injured in the firing on July 4. dallas Outside the Prairieland Detention Center, where federal prosecutors say an Antifa cell carried out an attack that included targeted gunfire and fireworks toward the facility.
Antifa, short for “anti-fascist”, is not a single organization, but rather an umbrella term for left-leaning extremist groups that confront or oppose neo-Nazis and white supremacists at demonstrations.
Nathan Bauman, Joey Gibson, Seth Sykes, Lynette Sharp and John Thomas pleaded guilty in federal court in Fort Worth to one count of providing material support to terrorists. He faces up to 15 years in prison at sentencing.
Sharp’s attorney, Erin Kelly, said filing the plea was “the first step in a long process” before sentencing is actually scheduled. lawyers The other four defendants either did not immediately respond to messages or did not comment Wednesday.
Cases are also ongoing against other people accused in the firing.
According to court documents, a member of the group outside the facility yelled “get the rifles” and then opened fire as officers responded, striking an Alvarado Police Department officer in the neck area. He fell on the ground but managed to respond to some shots. Prosecutors say more shots were then fired at the wounded officer and an unarmed DHS corrections officer.
Court documents state that Gibson, Bauman and Sykes were among those who were present the night of the attack and were arrested shortly afterward, while Sharp and Thomas were among those who helped the accused shooter avoid arrest until July 15.
The shootings come as the Trump administration has increased deportations. Days after that shooting, a man with an assault rifle fired dozens of rounds at federal agents and a U.S. Border Patrol facility in McAllen near the Mexico border, wounding a police officer. The officers shot the attacker.