Kaplony
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Three Antifa members, including DC leader, arrested for assault on Marines in Philly
https://www.foxnews.com/us/dc-antifa-lea...hia-report
Quote:A third man has been charged after two U.S. Marine Corps reservists were assaulted by an Antifa mob just blocks away from a “We the People” rally in Philadelphia more than two months ago.
Joseph Alcoff, a 37-year-old who is believed to be the Antifa leader in Washington, D.C., was charged earlier this month with aggravated assault, ethnic intimidation and conspiracy – all felonies – and other charges for his involvement in the November 2018 attack, Philly Mag reported.
He joins codefendants Thomas Massey and Tom Keenan, who were allegedly all part of a large group of left-wing Antifa activists who began beating Alejandro Godinez and Luis Torres after mistaking him them for participants in the “We the People” rally in Old City.
Quote:The two men, who were not wearing their uniforms the day of the attack, said they were asked if they were “Proud Boys” – an allusion to one of the right-wing groups behind the Nov. 17 rally.
After that interaction, they were approached by approximately 10 other people – men and women, some masked and some unmasked – who began attacking the Marines: punching and kicking them, using mace and hurling slurs and other insults such as calling them “Nazis” and “white supremacists.”
Torres told Fox News in December that it was an “extreme irony” that he and Godinez were called “white supremacists” as they are both of Hispanic descent.
“We found it very ironic and confusing as well. I don’t know who would look at us and suppose white supremacist, neo-Nazi or anything like that,” he said.
Keenan and Massey were identified from a video from a counter-protest at the “We the People” rally.
Court documents said Torres identified Alcoff while reading online articles about the attacks on the Daily Caller and came across a story that identified Alcoff as “D.C.’s radical Antifa leader … who’s advocated for violence and for the overthrow of the government.”
Torres contacted detectives in Philadelphia, claiming he recognized Alcoff as another member of the group that attacked him, Philly Mag reported, citing the court documents.
Investigators said Torres had photos he took from the suspects at the day of the attack and that police “strongly agree” that Alcoff was the person in his photos.
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Native Georgian
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RE: Three Antifa members, including DC leader, arrested for assault on Marines in Philly
The people who attacked Godinez and Torres are scum and I hope they get the max. punishment that the law allows.
With that said, WTF is “ethnic intimidation” and when did it become a felony?
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01-30-2019 01:01 PM |
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q5sys
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CliftonAve
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RE: Three Antifa members, including DC leader, arrested for assault on Marines in Philly
So let me get this straight: three white Antifa members beat up a couple Hispanic Marines and accused them of being Nazi's and White Supremacist's?
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01-30-2019 01:06 PM |
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TigerBlue4Ever
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RE: Three Antifa members, including DC leader, arrested for assault on Marines in Philly
(01-30-2019 01:06 PM)CliftonAve Wrote: So let me get this straight: three white Antifa members beat up a couple Hispanic Marines and accused them of being Nazi's and White Supremacist's?
And that's the modern day left for you.
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01-30-2019 01:12 PM |
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CrimsonPhantom
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RE: Three Antifa members, including DC leader, arrested for assault on Marines in Philly
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