Suspected ANTIFA member arrested, was targeting rally for Jan. 6 rioter
Posted on 01/09/2022 10:35:58 AM PST by yesthatjallen
A man in full black bloc behaving suspiciously near a right-wing rally outside the Pinellas County Courthouse in Florida on Jan. 6 was apprehended by deputies after he tried fleeing on foot. Garrett James Smith, 22, was arrested and found carrying an active pipe bomb, Antifa propaganda and a written document on what to bring for his direct action. He had recently returned from Portland, Ore.
"He was running fast, he was running away from something," Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said at a press conference on Friday. Bomb squad investigators from the F.B.I., Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office and the Tampa Police Deparment responded to the scene and determined the device was a "homemade M-type destructive device," according to the affidavit.
Smith was purportedly targeting dozens of the attendees of a rally protesting the treatment of Jan. 6 suspects on the one-year anniversary of the U.S. Capitol riot.
An executed search warrant of Smith's residence he shares with his parents in Oldsmar, Fla. revealed more explosives, tape and nails for use in grenades. Bomb squad investigators from the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office and the Tampa Police responded to the home and determined the devices were homemade IEDs.
A search of Smith's home he shares with his parents in Oldsmar, Fla. revealed more explosives, tape and nails for use in grenades. Smith’s “direct action” checklist included a drawing of an umbrella, a symbol adopted by Antifa militants for their frequent use of black umbrellas to shield one another from cameras while they commit acts of violence or vandalism. The helmet found in his backpack during his arrest had the Antifa “iron front” symbol painted on it.
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Suspected ANTIFA member arrested, was targeting rally for Jan. 6 rioter
Fry the Felchi-Fa scum
A search of Smith’s home he shares with his parents
Sniveling little weasel. Typical spineless jellyfish of a liberal.
I see community service in his future.
Like Epstein’s guards, who admitted to lying about watching Jeffrey.
Natch.
I’ll bet he stinks, the greasy filthy scumbag.
“ Natch”
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Thanks, I learned a new word.
Give CNN 24 hours and he’ll be a Proud Boy threatening “Our Democracy”.
“. . . a home he shares with his parents . . .” Figures! I wonder how much they knew, or suspected, about their weasel son’s activities.
Gamer.
Odd thing, he has no social media accounts.
Other thing...if you look at the list of objectives he wrote (photo out there on UK news)...all printed in a manner that resembled a 4th grade kid’s writing.
Gee maybe this is the same punk who put the pipe bombs at DNC/RNC..I notice the commie media didnt mention this story yesterday, guess when commies commit acts of violence its all good totally justified
What grade does he teach?
I can’t believe Americans are allowing these “antifa” Nazi b*tches to operate in America. Snowflake Nazis.
.all printed in a manner that resembled a 4th grade kid’s writing.
https://www.thepenmarket.com/vintage-pens-blog/2014/08/a-brief-history-of-cursive-writing/
Since letters have been invented, people have looked for ways to write them more swiftly. Scribes writing on clay tablets developed a more fluid form of writing that served as an early cursive in Mesopotamia.
“Give CNN 24 hours and he’ll be a Proud Boy threatening “Our Democracy”.”
I think the media has already been trying to spin it that way.
Perhaps a home made illegal firework of the M-80, M-100 variety.
Aunt Teefah Nazis are a dagger aimed right at the throat of the communist democrats’ “democracy”.
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