19 Jun 2020 11:04 am
And let's not forget the two Boogaloo Boys who were arrested for the murder of two cops in Oakland, CA.Federal arrests show no links to 'Antifa' at protests despite Trump administration's claims.
Donald Trump and his attorney general William Barr, among the president's other Republican allies and members of the administration, have repeatedly blamed so-called members of "Antifa" for recent protest violence in the wake of the police killings of black Americans.
But federal prosecutors have not linked any protest arrests for federal crimes to the loosely organised group of antifascist demonstrators that the administration has argued are staging a coordinated campaign to incite violence.
The term does not appear in any of the more than 50 arrest records and charging documents from more than a dozen states reviewed by The New York Times, NPR, Reuters and The Independent, among others.
Only one "extremist" group has been named by prosecutors in cases related to demonstrations: three men arrested during Black Lives Matter protests in Nevada are allegedly linked to the far-right "Boogaloo" conspiracy to incite a civil war.
The suspects allegedly armed themselves and wore bulletproof vests before walking into a Las Vegas crowd and provoking nearby police officers, according to US District Court filings.
They were arrested on 30 May after preparing Molotov cocktails, prosecutors allege. The men have denied the charges.