On Thursday afternoon, prosecutors in Texas announced that terrorism charges had been filed against two people for alleged involvement in a shooting during a July 4 protest against the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas, in which a local police officer was injured.
This is the first time federal terrorism charges have been deployed in association with the “antifa” label, just a month after President Donald Trump announced that he was designating antifa a “major terrorist organization” — a designation that does not exist under law for domestic groups.
The Prairieland case is setting a chilling example for how the government will use so-called counterterrorism efforts to crush anti-fascist dissent. Neither of the people named in the indictment are accused of shooting the gun. Instead, Zachary Evetts and Autumn Hill are accused of “providing material support to terrorists” and having “aided and abetted” the alleged attempted murder of government officers.
The federal indictment accuses Hill, who prosecutors dead-named, and Evetts as being part of an “antifa cell.”
The terrorism charges are an escalation of government efforts to criminalize protest movements by attempting to attribute collective guilt.
“Antifa” Protesters Charged With Terrorism for Constitutionally Protected Activity
https://theintercept.com/2025/10/17/antifa-ice-protesters-terrorism-texas-prairieland/
43 Comments
West_of_West@piefed.social · 120 pts · 322d
Just testing the waters
dan1101@lemmy.world · 53 pts · 322d
Let's hope no court will consider antifa terrorists, but there's always a few judges.
KingGordon@lemmy.world · 72 pts · 322d
Antifa doesn’t exist. It’s a straw man label to get what they want.
Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 39 pts · 322d
KingGordon@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 322d
Yes i know. But as an official organization like they talk about it doesnt exist. I know because id join it if it did exist.
LillyPip@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 322d
I’ve been looking for antifa for years. I bought the t-shirts and the pins, have gone to the rallies, signed the petitions, etc, but I can’t find the antifa.
Some antifa, but nowhere enough antifa.
We could really use some organised antifa right now. It’s not there yet, though.
tyrant@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 322d
Any protester is antifa. It's a suppression tactic.
bufalo1973@piefed.social · 24 pts · 322d
All the combined allied forces at WW2 where antifa.
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 322d
Every single US military member swears an oath which essentially amounts to being Antifa
_AutumnMoon_@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 322d
but will they follow that oath?
aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 322d
FenrirIII@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 322d
In Texas, there's going to be judges who goosestep behind Trump
manxu@piefed.social · 53 pts · 322d
First they claimed everything good is Socialism, and now there is a whole generation that thinks Socialism is good.
Now they are taking any opposition and call it terrorism, what do they think is going to happen when more and more people start opposing their living conditions?
carlossurf@lemmy.ca · 45 pts · 322d
Step one of fascist government label anyone that doesnt agree with them as antifa
lka1988@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 322d
Well, I mean, are they not?
The real problem is the people in charge taking a common abbreviation of an arguably positive ideology, twisting that abbreviation into a "scary" name, calling it a violent group, packaging it all up with a neat little bow, and then parroting it to the brainwashed masses.
MourningDove@lemmy.zip · -23 pts · 322d
StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 321d
Did you get lost? This is Lemmy, I think you were looking for Truth Social.
MourningDove@lemmy.zip · -3 pts · 321d
TheJesusaurus@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 321d
In what ways specifically is this similar to the far left?
MourningDove@lemmy.zip · -11 pts · 321d
TheJesusaurus@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 321d
You have not, please go ahead though
MourningDove@lemmy.zip · -2 pts · 321d
TheJesusaurus@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 321d
Oh, I thought it was pretty obvious you were being hyperbolic there. Try harder
MourningDove@lemmy.zip · -1 pts · 321d
MeThisGuy@feddit.nl · 3 pts · 321d
no
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 321d
Cheers to you! Fuck them
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 321d
It's nothing like that.
MourningDove@lemmy.zip · -8 pts · 321d
Salamanderwizard@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 321d
MourningDove@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 321d
BrilliantantTurd4361@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 321d
You can be deprogrammed. You dont have to feel this way any more. You can be a happy empathetic member of the human race.
MourningDove@lemmy.zip · -7 pts · 321d
BrilliantantTurd4361@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 320d
MourningDove@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 320d
macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 321d
MourningDove@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 321d
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 321d
Totally
starelfsc2@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 320d
The right: we just scrapped a major solar farm that would be cheaper than coal, then lied to everyone and said coal would be cheaper and the environmental impacts don't exist. Also, we have unidentified ice agents wearing masks raiding peoples houses, sometimes kidnapping American citizens, and the national guard deployed unconstitutionally. We have 80% support for this.
The left: if you don't support hamas you support genocide
Truly both sides are the same level of illogical here, you nailed it.
MourningDove@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 320d
starelfsc2@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 319d
To quote you exactly:
If you are talking about the specific instance of "labeling all protestors as antifa" vs "supporting Israel is supporting genocide"... some experts claim Israel is supporting genocide, so the logic is "if someone is supporting Israel they are supporting genocide." and the protestors all being antifa "members" is just... false. These are not even close to the same level of illogical.
If you mean more generally, my points show they are not comparatively identical in their lack of logic.
The alt right claims to care about the rule of law yet they are breaking the law and disregarding due process, and deporting american citizens as a result. They deployed the national guard to a state against the state's wishes, illegally, to stand there and do next to nothing. There is no logic here.
The alt right claims they want to help the economy yet their president just threw away a solar project that was already underway to get coal that will be more expensive. There is no logic.
The left claims people who support Israel are supporting genocide. You can disagree with this but there are experts who claim the same. The logic is "some experts claim Israel is committing genocide, therefore if someone supports Israel they are supporting genocide." Again, you can disagree with the logic, but there is at least a single thought being had, which can not be said for the far right examples.
MourningDove@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 319d
starelfsc2@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 319d
You're comparing the fringe even on lemmy to the average maga voter. The top posts on lemmy are saying that not voting is voting for fascism, so vote for kamala even if it's just the lesser of two evils. Block lemmy.ml and lemmy.grad if this is what you're seeing, those are loud but minority voices.
Even assuming your argument were valid, it's still not true. Some experts have said Israel is committing genocide. Kamala supports Israel. Someone voted for kamala, therefore they are supporting genocide. This logic is faulty, but there is SOME logic there.
Compare this to, we want to help the economy, coal is good and solar is bad...? We just tore down all the solar and hurt the economy........???
If I'm mistaken please show me the logic in the 2nd case?
As to not knowing anything about Palestine or Israel, there is research showing incomplete information is often worse than no information. Someone knowing a few events and being able to point to it on a map could mean LESS than nothing. We need someone who fully understands the history of that area, so for the average person that means either spending 40+ hours researching it, or looking at what the experts who have already done the research and know MUCH more about that entire region were saying, which was "Israel is committing genocide." Taking the majority opinion of experts and forming an opinion based off that is not illogical at all.
ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 36 pts · 322d
btw, attacking them isn’t terrorism… at worst you could say treason? (although the people being attacked were actually treasonous).
terrorism would be attacking civilians randomly… like, say blowing up boats full of people who aren’t waging war…
grue@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 322d
Or having gangs of non-uniformed, masked thugs kidnapping people off the street.
ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 322d
i would say that fits the definition of terrorism and treason
PeacefulForest@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 322d
ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 322d
sorry, i meant, keeping america safe from the invasion of hispanic gangs
aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 322d
ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 0 pts · 321d
to them… but they still matter….
might not matter until some future trial, or future historians pick apart what happened… but they matter
macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 321d
Between what?
ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 321d
what do you mean?
reksas@sopuli.xyz · 24 pts · 321d
if constitution doesnt protect them, that means the whole thing is just piece of paper and effectively null under america's current government.
ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 321d
One more indicator that the constitution has been suspended for the foreseeable future.
AngryRobot@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 322d
Im not giving than an email address to read sn article.
nulluser@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 322d
I gotcha covered. https://archive.ph/WTdDN
frmrm@peachpie.theatl.social · 1 pts · 321d
So I like the intercept a lot. And also find their current way of collecting support really annoying.
MourningDove@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 322d
zululove@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 321d
There is no point in individual resistance of this sort. You will only go to jail. If you are truly a revolutionary fighter who is ready to do stuff like this well gtfo offline first, & get organized with a lot of ppl.
GaryGhost@lemmy.world · -34 pts · 322d
Anti fascists are terrorists
FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 322d
Antifa terrorist cells from around the world gather to celebrate defeating the heroic reich
cashsky@sh.itjust.works · 20 pts · 322d
Fascists are terrorists.
TheJesusaurus@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 321d
So you're pro-fascism?
GaryGhost@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 321d
No, I just liked the irony of the statement