Seen on a building in Atlanta
It was just last January, during a law enforcement sweep of radicals in an “occupied” forest next to the construction site of an Atlanta police training center, when a Georgia trooper was seriously wounded and return fire resulted in the shooter dead. After that, the left-wing Antifa group and other militants vowed revenge. The result was that a downtown Atlanta rampage occurred. But Antifa wasn’t finished.
On Sunday night the Georgia Bureau of Investigation charged 23 radicals with domestic terrorism related to their latest surprise attack on the construction area. The “protestors” facing charges, whose names and photographs were published by law enforcement online, are from various states across the U.S. as well as Canada and France, according to police. Their ages range from 18 years old to nearly 50, and only two are Georgians.
One of the Georgians arrested is Thomas Jurgens, a staff attorney with the Southern Poverty Law Center. (Ironically, the SPLC is a leftist organization that various media outlets and even the Federal Bureau of Investigation have in the past used for its research on so-called “hate” groups.)
Atlanta police label the latest action “a coordinated attack” on equipment and officers by individuals who they allege “used the cover of a peaceful protest” to access the premises before changing “into black clothing and entering the construction area.”
This hijacking of a peaceful protest is a standard Antifa operation. For over a year InsiderAdvantage has gathered inside information from law enforcement sources regarding the violent Antifa network that’s allied with the “Defend Atlanta Forest” group. For almost a year these radicals have illegally occupied land to target the construction site. They have set fires and then attacked firefighters, they’ve thrown bombs and shot at police, they’ve terrorized construction workers and their families and inflicted almost $1 million in damages.
As we have previously reported, “Defend Atlanta Forest” is not comprised of people in the DeKalb County neighborhood where the police academy will be placed and who claim to be “concerned about the environment. Antifa, which has cells in Atlanta and other cities (especially Portland, Oregon), and “Defend Atlanta Forest” are largely made of what our senior law enforcement source calls Marxist ideologues coupled with “a lot of young, drug-addled useful idiots.”
We have previously published a picture on the side of one of their buildings facing Claire Drive, where words are scrawled saying: ‘Peaceful Protest is Over.’ These are extremists openly committed to violence. The radicals dressed in all black threw large rocks, bricks, Molotov cocktail bombs and fireworks at law enforcement officers. (The FBI said yesterday that the suspects arrested could also face federal charges as the investigation continues.)
Our law enforcement source continues to ask: “Will Atlanta and the state of Georgia allow this anti-police violence to continue? If the Marxists and anarchists succeed in turning Atlanta into another Portland, the economic impact will be huge. They will block improvements in downtown Atlanta. They will drive business out of town. They will inflict colossal damage.”
Phil Kent is the CEO and publisher of InsiderAdvantage Georgia.
