Southern Poverty Law Center Attorney Charged with Domestic Terrorism for Allegedly Rioting with Antifa
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By PAUL BOIS 6
Mar 2023
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/03/06/southern-poverty-law-center-attorney-charged-with-domestic-terrorism-for-rioting-with-antifa/
An attorney with
the far-left Southern
Poverty Law Center (SPLC),
an organization that frequently lists mainstream conservatives alongside hate
groups like the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), has been charged with domestic terrorism
after allegedly rioting with Antifa in Atlanta.
Over the weekend,
far-left agitators allegedly threw Molotov cocktails and launched fireworks at
an Atlanta police training facility that has been under construction. Among the
23 people arrested for what police called a “coordinated attack” is Thomas
Jurgens, 28, a staff attorney at the SPLC. Following the arrest, Jurgens’
Linkedin page was deleted. Per the New
York Post:
Of the 23 people
slapped with domestic terrorism charges over the violent protest, Jurgens and
only one other man, Jack Beaman, hail from the state of Georgia. Police said
the majority of those arrested are from other parts of the US — as well
as France and Canada.
The SPLC didn’t
immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment in the wake of Jurgens’
arrest. In total, 35 “violent agitators” were nabbed after they attacked the
future site of the $90 million police training facility, cops said.
It wasn’t
immediately clear if the remainder of those arrested will also be hit with
domestic terrorism charges.
During the demonstration over
the weekend, protesters allegedly threw Molotov cocktails, fireworks, rocks,
and bricks at police officers. Atlanta Police Chief Schierbaum later
described it as a “coordinated attack” and that multiple pieces of construction
equipment were set on fire.
“This was a very violent attack, very violent attack,” Schierbaum said. “This wasn’t about a public safety training center. This was about anarchy… and we are addressing that quickly.”
According to the
Georgia Department of Public Safety, some left-wing agitators even tried
blinding police officers by shining green lasers into their eyes.
Republican
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp also condemned the violence, calling it an act of
“domestic terrorism.”
“As I’ve said
before, domestic terrorism will NOT be tolerated in this state,” Kemp said. “We
will not rest until those who use violence and intimidation for an extremist
end are brought to full justice.”
As Breitbart News reported,
far-left rioters lit a police car on fire and broke the windows of several
local businesses this past January in response to the death of 26-year-old
activist Manuel Teran, who was killed during a police sweep “in what the
Georgia Bureau of Investigation said was an exchange of gunfire with police
that wounded a state trooper,” according to the Atlanta
Journal-Constitution (AJC).
The protest
eventually turned violent, with a police car being set aflame while businesses were
broken into. Police responded to multiple instances of property damage along
Peachtree Street. The Atlanta Police Foundation also had its glass doors
smashed in.
The SPLC’s
listing of conservatives alongside legitimate hate groups almost had deadly consequences in
2013 when domestic terrorist Floyd Lee Corkins II attempted a mass
shooting at the Family Research Council (FRC) after the SPLC listed it as a
hate group.
Mark Krikorian,
executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, wrote in
the Washington Post that the center’s use of “hate”
labels destroys public discourse.
“The wickedness
of the SPLC’s blacklist lies in the fact that it conflates groups that really
do preach hatred, such as the Ku Klux Klan and Nation of Islam, with ones that
simply do not share the SPLC’s political preferences,” he wrote. “The obvious
goal is to marginalize the organizations in this second category by bullying
reporters into avoiding them, scaring away writers and researchers from working
for them, and limiting invitations for them to discuss their work.”
The SPLC
acknowledged a member of their organization was arrested during the event in a
tweet Monday, describing them as a “legal observer”:
Connecting the Dots:
Julian Bond is
a co-founder, director emeritus for the Southern Poverty Law Center,
a director at the Center for Economic and Policy Research and a
director at People for the American Way.
Open Society Foundations was a funder for the Center for
Economic and Policy Research.
George Soros is the
founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, was the
chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society and a
contributor for MoveOn.org,
Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for People for the
American Way.
James Rucker was
a director of grassroots mobilization for MoveOn.org and a director
at Southern Poverty Law Center.
Resources: Past
Research
Leftist Shooter Used
Southern Poverty Law Center “Hate Map” to Plan Killings (Past Research on the Southern Poverty Law Center)
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2015
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