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One of the defining images of 2020 featured two homeowners, two firearms and a confrontation that ignited a national firestorm. Six years later, the legal, political and cultural fallout from that moment continues to reverberate through debates over self-defense, private property rights, public protest and prosecutorial power. On June 28, 2020, as racial justice protests swept cities across America following the death of George Floyd, Black Lives Matter demonstrators made their way through Portland Place, a private, gated street in St. Louis, toward the home of then-Mayor Lyda Krewson. As the crowd passed through the neighborhood, the McCloskeys emerged from...

Two ceremonial flags were filched from a Northampton Township community flagpole on Wednesday night. Palmer Township police are searching for the person who stole Juneteenth and LGBTQ Pride flags from a flagpole outside the Easton Area Public Library Palmer branch overnight Wednesday. Surveillance footage captured an individual lowering the two flags and fleeing the scene. Police said the thief deliberately concealed their identity. “This was not just vandalism; it was an attack on our shared civic space. The township condemns this theft in the strongest terms,” it shared in a news release. The flags had been raised during a ceremony...

Marchers and police clashed on Friday night toward the end of the Trans March in San Francisco’s Tenderloin, according to multiple witnesses and footage of the skirmish. Three witnesses told the Chronicle it all started when police tried to arrest someone spray painting a building on Market Street. When marchers approached and tried to block the arrest, officers responded with force, according to Nora Long and other witnesses. People could be heard on video shared with the Chronicle, repeatedly yelling, “let him go.” there trying to stop them,” Long told the Chronicle. “From there, the cops responded with more violence.”...

Lance Twiggs was living with Robinson when Kirk was killed last year.A judge on Monday dismissed a motion by Tyler Robinson’s attorneys to subpoena his former romantic partner to testify in court next month. Robinson, 23, is accused of killing right-wing activist Charlie Kirk as he spoke at a campus debate at Utah Valley University in Orem last year. Robinson faces multiple charges in connection with the killing, including felony aggravated murder. On Monday, state District Judge Tony Graf Jr. granted prosecutors’ motion to quash a subpoena brought by defense attorneys to have Lance Twiggs testify live in Utah at...

Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., sparked fierce backlash after her apparent defense of accused antifa cell members sentenced to decades in prison for a violent attack on a Texas immigration facility that federal prosecutors called an act of terrorism. One of the defendants, Benjamin Song, a former Marine Corps reservist, was handed a 100-year prison sentence — the maximum punishment — Tuesday after being convicted of attempted murder for shooting Alvarado Police Lt. Thomas Gross, who survived a bullet to the neck.

Eight of the ten Antifa members convicted of terrorism charges for an attack on a Texas ICE detention center were sentenced to at least 50 years in prison on Tuesday. The Antifa ringleader Benjamin Song was sentenced to 100 years in prison. CBS News reported: Eight people who were found guilty of terrorism-related charges earlier this year for a 2025 attack on an ICE detention facility in Alvarado, Texas, learned their punishments on Tuesday. One member of the group, identified as the group’s leader, was sentenced to a century in prison. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of...

U.S. Department of Justice@TheJusticeDeptLeader of ANTIFA Cell Members in North Texas SENTENCED TO 100 YEARS IN PRISON for Terrorist Attack on ICE Facility: Seven additional defendants also sentenced before one-year anniversary of attack to a combined 450 years in prisonThis is the first sentencing of defendants affiliated with Antifa following @POTUS ’s executive order designating the group as a Domestic Terrorist Organization in September 2025."The sentences handed down today make clear that Antifa terrorists who attack law enforcement and federal facilities will face swift and uncompromising justice,” said Acting Attorney General @DAGToddBlanche. “Their violent extremism has no place in our...

Eight people who were found guilty of terrorism-related charges earlier this year for a 2025 attack on an ICE detention facility in Alvarado, Texas, learned their punishments on Tuesday. One member of the group, identified as the group's leader, was sentenced to a century in prison.The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Texas said on Monday that sentencing for the defendants would happen Tuesday morning. The verdicts, handed down in March, came as the defendants stood accused in the July 4, 2025, plot targeting the Prairieland ICE detention center following weeks of testimony from investigators, law enforcement and...

Eight members of a North Texas Antifa cell have been given decades in prison for their roles in an attack on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in the state in July of 2025. Sentences handed down to the group of eight militants ranged from 30 years to 100 years. Ringleader Benjamin Hanil Song received the highest sentence, with US District Judge Mark T Pittman sentencing him to 100 years, Andy Ngo reported. Song had been convicted of charges that included attempted murder and discharging a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, the most serious charges in...

BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: The first federal Antifa terror convicts in U.S. history have been sentenced today. The North Texas Antifa cell that carried out the July 4, 2025 shooting ambush on an ICE facility received a combined 450 years in federal prison. READ:ngocomment.com/p/breaking-exc…

Graham Platner, the Democratic U.S. Senate nominee from Sullivan, wrote about his involvement with the Socialist Rifle Association using the Reddit handle P-Hustle. MANY PICTURES AT LINK............... Last October, The Robinson Report broke the story that Graham Platner — the disabled Sullivan veteran with an oyster hobby who is now the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate — had personally instructed members of the Socialist Rifle Association in firearms training in Maine. Now, two additional accounts — both from self-described left-wingers — have surfaced that confirm Platner’s top role in the Maine chapter of firearms and political activism org. The reporting...

O'Keefe Media Group (OMG) says members of a New Jersey-based Antifa network are scrambling after learning that internal group chats were infiltrated by an undercover journalist. In a post on X, OMG founder James O'Keefe shared a screenshot purportedly from a private chat in which a participant warned members that "someone is taking screenshots of this chat and sending it to James O'Keefe." The image also appeared to show multiple members leaving the group shortly after the warning was posted. "NJ Antifa is now freaking out because James O'Keefe is obtaining internal screenshots from multiple Antifa group chats," O'Keefe wrote....

BREAKING: U.S. Attorney Dan Rosen announces charges against 15 Antifa lunatics

The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Minnesota on Tuesday announced that 15 Antifa members have been indicted for their alleged roles in conspiring to hinder federal immigration enforcement operations in Minneapolis earlier this year. The suspects, 12 of whom are in custody, are all charged with conspiracy to impede or injure a federal officer, according to a 94-page criminal complaint, and some are charged with further crimes. Federal prosecutors allege that each suspect took part in a conspiracy to obstruct federal immigration enforcement officers, including ICE personnel, through force, intimidation and threats

🚨 BREAKING: Leftist rioters attempted to ATTACK the federal courthouse in St. Paul, Minnesota after 15 Antifa members were indicted by DOJ Officers deployed BEAR SPRAY in the faces of rioters forcing courthouse doors open SHOW NO MERCY! More arrests! VIDEO AT LINK.................... https://x.com/RheinAmacher/status/2067006658866503919/video/1

O’KEEFE INFILTRATES NJ ANTIFA: Inside “NJ BURN” — Rutgers University Director, T-Mobile AI Leaders, OpenAI /ChatGPT Engineer, Reverend From Princeton Theological Seminary, and ACLU Board Member Discuss Port Newark–Elizabeth Blockade Riot, Road Spikes, Tire-Slashing of New Jersey nian-Style” Protest Tactics, and Celebrating Charlie Kirk’s Murder. NJ ANTIFA INDIVIDUALS IDENTIFIED: • Alexyss P. - New Jersey Coalition Against Sexual Assault Community Council Member @NJ_CASA • Jim Keady @JWKeady - Former New Jersey Democratic Candidate • Woojin Ko - OpenAI Research Engineer @OpenAI • Beleckecom Moffouk - T-Mobile AI Automation Expert @TMobile • Zainab Tanvir - Imaging Director at Rutgers University @RutgersU...

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Minnesota has unsealed a federal indictment charging 15 defendants over their alleged roles in two Minneapolis-based Antifa groups that violently opposed the enforcement of federal immigration law during Operation Metro Surge. Among those arrested is Kyle Wagner, who, as The Gateway Pundit previously reported, refers to himself as the “Antifa General.” U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen announced the charges during a press conference in Minneapolis, joined by Homeland Security Investigations. Rosen said, “Today, a federal indictment was unsealed charging 15 defendants with conspiracy to impede or injure federal officers and other charges related...

The FBI stopped a terror plot involving as many as two dozen perpetrators to attack Sunday’s UFC 250 fight at the White House with explosive-laden drones and snipers, officials told Just the News on Tuesday.At least five people have been arrested, and agents are working to identify as many as 18 others who appeared to be involved in the planning on encrypted chats communicating with the alleged plotters, officials said.

An ICE agent in New Jersey was struck by a van driven by a fleeing suspect and opened fire on the vehicle, striking it several times, authorities said. The incident happened Monday morning around 9:30 a..m. near Mermaid Drive in Stafford Township’s Manahawkin community, about 60 miles east of Philadelphia as the agency was trying to capture a suspect. The officer’s condition was not immediately known, but sources told NBC Philadelphia that he is expected to recover. ICE has not released a description of the suspect or revealed whether the driver was injured. The outlet reports the van’s back window...

An influx of out-of-state agitators — some hailing from elite backgrounds — were arrested in Newark during the chaotic standoff with law enforcement outside the Delaney Hall migrant detention center, The Post has learned. Out of the at least 12 anti-ICE rioters arrested last weekend for assaulting federal agents or smashing cars, four came from as far as Washington State, Colorado, Arizona and Illinois to wreak havoc on the Garden State, according to information from the Newark Police Department and arrest sheets reviewed by The Post. Another was from Connecticut and five from New York — most of them recent...