John Miller, deputy police commissioner for intelligence and counterterrorism, told NBC New York that the radicals’ operations included organized scouts, medical teams and an arsenal of rocks, bottles and accelerants. In New York, a senior police official provided the first details of how radical anarchists like those with Antifa came from outside the city and intentionally incited protesters to violence. However, security officials said the coordinated, national-level riots inspired by Antifa in recent days are unprecedented. Antifa supporters later took part in demonstrations during the inauguration of Mr.
That often involves setting fires, looting, throwing bricks and bottles at police, and in one case the apparent use of a milkshake laced with quick-dry cement in attacking an opponent in the face.Īntifa initially was focused in West Coast cities such as Portland, Oregon, and Berkeley, California. What makes the shadowy group unique is its willingness to use of violence, what Antifa organizers and sympathizers call “direct” action in support of the anarchist and Marxist-Leninist agenda. “It is employing organized violence for political ends: destruction of the constitutional order,” he said. Myers argued that Antifa clearly meets the criteria for being labeled a terrorist and insurgent movement. “And if that hasn’t been happening, we want to know what the plan is going forward.” “The president and the attorney general want to know from Director Wray what the FBI has been doing to track and dismantle and surveil and prosecute Antifa,” Mr. officials are pressing for more intelligence on the group’s activities in light of the events of recent days. White House National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien said U.S.
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The president said Monday that “in recent days, our nation has been gripped by professional anarchists, violent mobs, arsonists, looters, criminals, rioters, Antifa and others.” Trump has singled out Antifa for the violent protests. In recent days, the group interspersed its operatives among protests set off by the police killing of a handcuffed Mr. More generally, senior Trump administration officials and private analysts are warning that the radicals have rushed to exploit recent anti-police protests to set into motion a program of widespread civil unrest, a program that involves using the protests for looting and burning inner cities with the help of criminals and street gangs.įar from a centrally organized movement, Antifa is a shadowy “anti-fascist” political front of loosely organized, quasi-underground activists known for wearing black-clad outfits and masks who see destructive street violence as a political tool.
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