“A federal jury on Friday convicted eight people on terrorism charges over a shooting at a Texas immigration facility that federal prosecutors tied to antifa,” a far-left movement, reports Yahoo News. “Jurors also handed down guilty verdicts on other charges, including attempted murder against one member of the group” who “opened fire last summer outside the Prairieland Detention Center near Dallas, wounding a police officer who was shot in the neck.”
Sentencing is scheduled for June. Attorneys for the criminals say they were not antifa members and had instead organized a “noise demonstration” that included fireworks to show support for illegal immigrants who had been detained in 2025.
As Yahoo News notes,
FBI Director Kash Patel has called the Texas case the first time a material support to terrorism charge has targeted people accused of being antifa members.
Attorney General Pamela Bondi said “Today’s verdict on terrorism charges will not be the last as the Trump administration systematically dismantles Antifa and finally halts their violence on America’s streets.”
Short for “anti-fascists,” antifa is not a single organization but rather an umbrella term for far-left-leaning militant groups…Defense attorneys told jurors that there was no plan for violence on July 4 outside the facility in Alvarado.
There were nine defendants on trial in all, eight of whom faced a charge of providing material support to terrorists. The ninth defendant was charged with corruptly concealing a document and conspiracy to conceal documents. He was found guilty of both….Prosecutor Shawn Smith told jurors during closing arguments that the group’s actions — including bringing firearms, first aid kids and wearing body armor — were all signals of the group’s intent. He said they practiced “antifa tactics.”
