Violent Anarchist arrested for the "Jane's Revenge" firebombing of a pro-life group's office - Hridindu Roychowdhury

The attack was the first Jane's Revenge and most high profile attack that inspired dozens of other attacks. Hridindu Roychowdhury was Wisconsin arrested and federally charged with arson.

On May 2nd 2022 Politico reported on a the leaked Dobbs decision. The Dobbs decision would eventually overturn Roe v Wade, the abortion ruling that has been fought over by pro-life and pro-abortion groups for decades. Protests quickly erupted across the country, some of them turning criminal and violent. In addition to these protests, a nation-wide campaign of targeted attacks begun from more extreme anarchist associated with Antifa groups. These attacks included firebombings, graffiti, and smashing out windows. AntifaWatch has documented many of these attacks on our tracker.

The highest profile attack and one of the first firebombings took place in Wisconsin on May 7th. Images of the arson damage and the graffiti quickly surfaced online. Extremist podcaster Robert Evans received and published a message claiming responsibility for the attack and promising more attacks. The message identified the group as Jane's Revenge.

 

Jane's Revenge communique

This message rapidly spread on social media, and other attacks took place with the same graffiti also claiming to be Jane's Revenge. Despite the large number of attacks, very few arrests were made. Only two others were arrested by January 2023, they were Antifa members from Florida, Caleb Freestone and Amber Smith-Stewart who were arrested for their alleged Jane's Revenge vandalism.

 

Caleb Freestone and Amber Smith Stewart

On March 28th 2023 Hridindu Sankar Roychowdhury was arrested in the Boston airport by federal authorities for his alleged part in the Madison attack. Roychowdhury is a Protein Engineer and Computational Biologist who received his PhD from University of Wisconsin-Madison.

The criminal complaint against Roychowdhury shows how police found him. Following the attack the ATF collected a glass container with an attached fabric cloth for DNA analysis, on the cloth they found DNA profiles from three different individuals. While federal authorities had DNA, they found no matches within the national database called CODIS.

The investigation appears to have gone cold for some time after that, until in January of 2023, following the death of Antifa gunman Manuel "Tortuguita" Teran in Atlanta a protest was held in support in Madison Wisconsin. The protest was held on January 21st at the state capitol where Wisconsin State Capitol Police were watching. During the demonstration they noticed multiple individuals spray painting graffiti. This graffiti had a unique cursive style, that is somewhat uncommon to more block letter graffiti styles. Law enforcement noted a potential connection to the firebombing attack and began making an effort to identify the vandals.

 

Graffiti at the Madison protest

Law enforcement went through CCTV cameras to find a white Toyota pickup that had entered around the time. They linked this truck with Roychowdhury and began surveillance. On March 1st they saw Roychowdhury throw away a bag and retrieved it. In the bag they found an unfinished burrito. This bag was submitted for DNA analysis and found a match with the molotov glass.

 

Burrito with DNA being found

Limited other information was released, however our exclusive robust social media research was able to build a more detailed profile on Roychowdhury's extremist background despite his Twitter account being locked.

First we looked at follower data to get an idea of where he got his information and who he may have associated with ideologically. In this we found a huge number of violent extremist groups such as crimethinc, PNWYLF, Puget Sound JBGC, It's Going Down News, Filler PGH, submedia, SRA, Defend the ATL Forest, and many more.

Following this we ran our DeletedTweets project on the account. While we don't know if he deleted the tweets, because the account is locked all archived tweets are treated as deleted, that report can be found here.

While some of the tweets were about his PhD work and coworkers, many expressed a violent anarchist ideology. This extremism dates back to atleast 2019, where he expressed an interest in joining the YPG like violent extremist Dan Baker who is currently in federal prison for his threats. Roychowdhury also interacted with other violent extremists such Antifa nail bomber Richard T. Hunsinger, DNA analysis was also used to identify Hunsinger.

 

Collage of Roychowdhury's Tweets

This further shown in a January 2021 tweet where Roychowdhury angirly attacked Antifa international for trying to claim that the 2020 riots were not a coup against the state, asking why they even have a black (anarchist) flag if they're going to go about peace policing and playing down the violence against the state and other targets that took place during the 2020 riots.

 

Roychowdhury attacking Antifa international

As there were 3 individual's DNA found on the molotov, Roychowdhury may be the first of several to be arrested from this attack. Left wing extremists may associate themselves with a variety of different names such as Jane's Revenge, 'StopCopCity' and Antifa the underlying violent ideology remains the same. AntifaWatch will provide updates to the court cases on our social media, and if there are any large updates on this website.

Who is paying the legal & bail fees for the 'Stop Cop City' Antifa? - Adele Maclean of Atlanta Solidarity Fund and Richard Hunsinger

The Georgia based non-profit paying the bail and legal fees of a variety of antifa and left wing violent extremists with a multi-million dollar war chest that has proven key to the domestic terrorist actions of 'Stop Cop City'

As violent extremism continues in Atlanta from Antifa associated with 'Stop Cop City' 40+ people facing domestic terrorism charges. The pretty obvious question arises, who is paying the legal and bail fees for these people as court cases continue to rack up? The organization isn't secret and operates quite publicly, covering all aspects of criminal behavior from violent left wing extremists of all kind, not just those associated with Stop Cop City.

The Atlanta Solidarity Fund was founded in May of 2018, however their legal status remained unknown up until August of 2020, where during the Summer George Floyd riots 'Network for Strong Communities' received domestic nonprofit corporation status in Georgia. Network for Strong Communities lists the fund as one of its projects, they also operate a CopWatch and Food Not Bombs program, however both of these entities appear less active with websites for both projects either not working or having not been updated for several years.

 

Atlanta Solidarity Fund OpenCorporates information

The cost of legal defense for large number of people is quite high, however the organization is very well funded. The last known public financials have them with 3.6 million in revenue and next to no costs. Massive amounts of money poured into left wing bail fund and legal support groups during the 2020 riots following promotion of their causes in the media and among more moderate left wing politicians like Kamala Harris.

While some of this money was undoubtedly used defending the violent antifa in 2020 case they've been using The Action Network to fundraise since then. They've additionally received some grants from other left wing groups like the Brandon Anderson Foundation who gave them $25,000. In addition to these grants, local extremist organization across the country have been doing smaller fundraisers for the group

 

Atlanta Solidarity Fund 2020 funding information

The group has had the same 3 officers since incorporation, they are Marlon Kautz, Adele Mclean, and Savannah Patterson. Marlon Kautz is by far the most public face of the organization. His activism goes back decades being listed as a speaker for sleep-out protest in 2006. He was frequently acted as the media representative where he defends or obfuscates for violent extremism at every available opportunity such as the alleged RICO indictments that may come for Stop Cop City members.

Evidence reviewed by lawyers suggests that the State of Georgia will be pursuing racketeering (RICO) charges against protestors, concocting a flimsy narrative that paints the movement as a “criminal organization.”
Marlon Kautz from @AtlSolFund explains the pending indictments. pic.twitter.com/JewxN7BNXm

— Atlanta Community Press Collective (@atlanta_press) February 26, 2023

Adele Maclean, while a less public face has involvement in similar kinds of left wing organizing with Food Not Bombs. Little information is confirmed about the last officer, Savannah Patterson.

 

Adele Maclean of Atlanta Solidarity Fund

The organization lists its registered address at a home 15 minutes from downtown in east Atlanta. The home at the address acts as basis for left wing organizing in the city. The dilapidated looking house covered in left wing Antifa graffiti is sometimes referred to as a 'teardown house'. The home is supposedly protesting gentrification in the area with its vulgar appearance.

 

Atlanta Solidarity Fund's East Atlanta 'teardown house'

The house is hub for homeless and drugs addicts in the area according to individuals who reached out to AntifaWatch about it after our original Twitter thread. This matches with other reports of violent crime in the area, in June of 2020 there was a drive-by shooting on that left 2 dead and 5 injured

 

APD released images of drive-by shooters

Atlanta Solidarity Fund has a strict adherence to the "no bad protestor" tactic, this means regardless of the crime they will unconditionally support them. This means they'll defend for someone arrested for a non-violent action in the same way as someone carrying out violent attacks. We see this in the cases they support such as Richard Tyler Hunsinger, who pled guilty and was sentenced to 32 months in federal prison for throwing molotovs and nail bombs into an occupied federal building or Andrew Carlisle, who allegedly threw explosives and rocks at the Georgia Department of Public Safety Headquarters in a July 2020 riot.

 

Richard Hunsinger throwing explosives into a federal building

Atlanta Solidarity Fund is not a law firm and does not directly defend people in court. However there are several lawyers that have worked with the group on multiple occasions such as Lauren Regan and Sarah Alvarez from the Civil Liberties Defense Center and transsexual activist Lyra Foster

The fund will continue to play a key role in violent left wing organizing it Atlanta. In updated warrants on the 23 Stop Cop City Antifa accused of domestic terrorism, police note that many had the number for Atlanta Solidarity Fund written on their clothing.

 

Domestic Terrorism warrants mentioning the Jail Support Line

Six arrested at Atlanta black bloc riot over dead Antifa gunman - Manuel 'Tortuguita' Terra, Nadja Geier, Madeleine Feola, Ivan Ferguson, Graham Evatt, Francis Carrol, Emily Murphy

At a large black bloc Antifa riot over Antifa gunman Manuel 'Tortuguita' Terran. An Atlanta Police car was torched and multiple buildings had their windows smashed. The riot ended with 6 arrests and more domestic terrorism charges

In Atlanta in 2021, a police training facility was approved for development in a Southeast Atlanta forested area near the Old Atlanta Prison Farm. Opposition to the training facility united a variety of left wing groups including militant anti-fascists, anti-police activists, and environmental activists. The training facility was quickly nicknamed cop city by these groups due to it including a mock city for training officers under real world conditions. These groups formed into Stop Cop City and have led the effort against the training facility.

Since then a variety of tactics have been used in opposition to the training facility. While some have used tactics that have remained peaceful and legal, many have devolved into intimidation, arson, vandalism, and violence. One of the common tactics in 2022 was to physically occupy the forest by camping or the use of tree-sits.

 

Stop Cop City flying the Antifa flag in their forest occupation

The occupation of the forest has driven numerous acts of criminality, including throwing molotov cocktails at police, vandalizing construction equipment, holding people at gunpoint, and arson of vehicles. Law enforcement started sweeping the forest to remove those trespassing in response. These sweeps mostly consisted of removing people from tree-sits, removing camping equipment, and locating tools that could be used for arson and other attacks.

During a January 18th 2023 police sweep a George State Trooper was shot in the leg by Manuel 'Tortuguita' Teran. Georgia State Troopers returned fire, killing Teran. The trooper survived the shooting. Within hours of the shooting, posts were up on extremist outlets connected with StopCopCity calling for retaliation.

The call for retaliation made up basic facts about the shooting, stating that he was unarmed, when in fact he had a M&P shield that was legally purchased under his name. Additionally ballistic forensics confirmed that the bullet recovered from the trooper’s leg matched Teran's firearm. Many left wing outlets egged this on by referring to Teran as 'peaceful protestor'; this was an obvious lie and in a documentary released later a fellow extremist who knew and occupied the forest with him noted him saying "he would not be taken alive" and would have celebrated the violence towards police that occurred.

 

A call for retaliation from StopCopCity

On Saturday the 21st, three days after the shooting a black bloc riot was organized in downtown Atlanta. Block bloc is a tactic in which participants wear the same all black outfit to not be identified. This enables violence and vandalism, while reducing the possibility of criminal charges later. Activists gathered at Peachtree Fountains Plaza in Downtown Atlanta. A photographer from the William McKinley Institute captured a large number of images of the assembly area. In the images you can see a mix of left wing groups. At the staging area people from communist group Party for Socialism and Liberty (PSL), extremist legal support group National Lawyers Guild (NLG), and self proclaimed 'street medics' can all be seen. Among the groups there was a large contingent of those in black bloc, these people were seen before hand distributing bags of rocks, lasers to point at police, and other riot equipment.

Interesting pictures released by The William McKinley Institute of #Antifa at the staging area for the riot earlier tonight.

Shows the division of groups PSL/Medics/NLG/Black Bloc/etc, as well as clear planning from those in black blochttps://t.co/iNRnHbEmZW pic.twitter.com/AEsFd9XbHj

— AntifaWatch (@AntifaWatch2) January 22, 2023

The march started, making its way towards the Atlanta Police Foundation. While many reporters and propagandists later described the event as a largely peaceful protest it took only 16 minutes and 41 seconds from when the march started and left the staging area to when the vandalism and rioting started.

The riot and vandalism was first done by using the banner memorializing Manuel Teran as a blocking device for people to smash out the windows and throw fireworks into an Atlanta Police car. While this is typically never filmed internally at black bloc demonstrations with many Antifa openly advocating smashing cameras, a random black guy not in black bloc was live streaming stumbled into the middle the criminality, thankfully no one stopped him.

Footage from tonight in #Atlanta when #antifa smashed out the windows of a police car and threw explosives in it.

Note how they use the "vigil" banner to block view and aggressively tell the person to stop filming pic.twitter.com/gH7IbuH8nC

— AntifaWatch (@AntifaWatch2) January 22, 2023

Following that, the crowd marched and vandalized a Wells Fargo and proceeded to the Atlanta Police Foundation (APF). APF has been a driving force for the training facility and as such has been targeted by extremists, in one such case they attempted to burn down an APF supported youth center that provides crime prevention programs such as GED classes, workforce training, and mentoring. Those in black bloc smashed windows, threw fireworks and rocks at the front of the building. Shortly after an Atlanta police vehicle was set on fire. The fire destroyed the vehicle completely and was caught on camera from several angles.

Atlanta, GA: Antifa are rioting, destroying businesses and setting police cars on fire after an Antifa member was shot and killed by police earlier this week.

The Antifa member died after opening fire on police, and policeman returned fire. pic.twitter.com/I8f4SUW7te

— Anthony Cabassa (@AnthonyCabassa_) January 22, 2023

Atlanta police began making arrests and breaking up the riot. As police began making arrests, panic broke out in the crowd people split up and the demonstration came to an end. At the end of the night six arrests had been made. Several arrests were caught on video

ATLANTA ARRESTS: I witnessed @Atlanta_Police make a number of arrests tonight and managed to film two #COPCITY protesters being zip tied and removed from the street. #BREAKING #ATL #PROTEST #NEWS @FOX5Atlanta #ATLANTA pic.twitter.com/RjrVrG376U

— Billy Heath III (@BillyHeathFOX5) January 22, 2023

All six riot arrestees were been booked for domestic terrorism, arson, riot, criminal and damage to property. Five of the six arrested were from out of state, a very common occurrence with Stop Cop City. The six came from a variety of backgrounds, one a transgender activist, a climate activist, and a repeat offender. AntifaWatch was first to identify the repeat offender as Francis Carroll, the son of a multimillionaire from Maine who was arrested for the second time for domestic terrorism. He had previously been arrested during a forest sweep in December and bailed out.

Nadja Geier, Madeleine Feola, Ivan Ferguson, Graham Evatt, Francis Carrol, Emily Murphy

 

Mugshots of 6 arrestees

The call for retaliation following the death of Manuel Teran started with this riot, but people on social media had already begun calling for a "week of action" that could be larger action.

Portland Antifa rioter who attacked police with bear mace gets all charges dropped - Kevin Phomma

Despite pleading guilty to attacking police with bear mace, an offense which has gotten right wingers years in prison, all charges against Kevin Phomma were dropped after being enabled by left wing prosecutors

During the 2020 riots, there were countless attacks on police. In Portland, which had the longest running daily riots of any city, at just the federal courthouse riots over 689 injuries were reported. However very few cases have led to any punishment. At one Portland riot a man named Kevin Phomma came armed with a knife and bear spray. He attacked police with bear spray near the Federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility, and was soon after arrested.

Video of Phomma's attack was found via riotarchive, a project we've supported. Phomma uses the whole can of bear mace to attack the police

The case later became a point of comparison to several January 6th cases such as Julian Elie Khater who similarly pled guilty to assaulting capitol police with bear spray. Khater was held pre-trial and eventually pled guilty, after which he was sentenced to 80 months in federal prison.

However unlike Khater, Phomma escaped with zero actual punishment. Shortly after being arrested on August 27th Phomma was booked into Multnomah County Jail and unlike January 6th defendants he wasn't held without bail, left wing groups paid his bail and he was out.

Kevin Phomma in Multnomah County Jail

Several days later on September 4th 2020 the Oregon US Attorney's Office filed federal charges against Phomma. They charged him with Civil Disorder, a felony with a 5 year potential sentence. He was additionally charged in Multnomah County with 5 felonies including use of mace, assaulting an officer, riot, and 2 misdemeanor charges.

However this aggressive prosecution that may have indicated some sort of real punishment for Phomma didn't amount to anything. The court cases (state and federal) proceeded incredibly slowly. In the federal case Phomma's attorney made a motion to dismiss based on lack of federal authority, that motion was Dismissed in September of 2021.

Phomma then pled to state charges in Janauary 2022, with a sentencing date set for an entire year in the future. He pled to only 3 of the felonies, assault and two charges of use of mace. Despite the local DA Mike Schmidt's reputation for enabling violent left wing criminality, the Oregon US Attorney's Office under Scott Asphaug dismissed the federal case.

 

Federal Dismissal

Nothing happened in for the rest of 2022. In January 2023, Phomma was allowed to plea again on the same case thanks to Mike Schmidt. He pled not guilty on all 3 felonies he he had pled to in 2022. The case was then dismissed entirely. This appears to be a roundabout way of doing a deferred resolution agreement, a tactic similar to suspended sentencing frequently used with left wing criminal. This meant he had to comply with bail conditions for the year between pleas as the 'punishment' for multiple felonies.

 

State Guilty plea, New Plea, and Dismissal

While Julian Khater is in federal prison until November 2026, Kevin Phomma who committed and pled guilty for the same underlying conduct is free and still living in Portland where he works at a local restaurant.

Son of #2 Democrat in House of Representatives arrested for assaulting police at Antifa event in Boston - Jared 'Riley' Dowell

Jared 'Riley' Dowell, the transexual son of House Minority Whip Katherine Clark allegedly graffitied "stop cop city" and assaulted police while resisting arrest at a Boston Antifa event in solidarity with dead Antifa gunman Manuel 'Tortuguita' Teran

 

While the Stop Cop City riot in Atlanta following the death of Antifa gunman Manuel 'Tortuguita' Teran grabbed headlines for the fiery scenes there were demonstrations in support of the left wing gunman who shot a state trooper across the country including Lansing Michigan, Madison Wisconsin, Portland Oregon, and Boston Massachusetts.

The Boston protest didn't get media attention the night of, however the next day Boston police put out a press release stating some basic information about arrests. AntifaWatch was first to report that Jared Dowell, an individual listed in the release as having allegedly vandalized property with "Stop Cop City" graffiti then attacked police was the biological son of the number two Democrat in the House of Representatives, Minority Whip Katherine M. Clark.

Through our fast and knowledgeable social media research we had found Jared's Facebook. Where he used the name Riley and was Facebook friends with his congresswoman mother. Limited other information was on Jared's Facebook except for several posts about a leftist mutual aid group called Northshore Mutual Aid. The Facebook was deleted within minutes of our original post.

 

Jared Dowell, Credit Jared Dowell Facebook page

Through more research we located Jared Dowell's reddit page. On reddit he posted on anarchist, anti-capitalist and LGBTQ+ subreddits. The posts and other information indicated that Jared had come out as non-binary two years ago and later as trans. Jared had gone to Middlebury, a private liberal arts college and then worked as a freelance artist.

 

Jared Dowell's reddit post

Four hours after we broke the story Katherine M. Clark responded publicly and acknowledged the arrest and described it as a very difficult time in the cycle of joy and pain in parenting. In the post Clark referred to Jared as her daughter and used the name Riley.

Last night, my daughter was arrested in Boston, Massachusetts. I love Riley, and this is a very difficult time in the cycle of joy and pain in parenting.

This will be evaluated by the legal system, and I am confident in that process.

— Katherine Clark (@WhipKClark) January 22, 2023

Jared was released the next day on $500 bail. He's charged with Assault by Means of a Dangerous Weapon and vandalism. Another individual who was arrested at the same Antifa demonstration for vandalism, Andrea Colletti was also released. LiveBoston617 obtained additional information including booking photos, police reports, and radio scanner traffic from the arrest. That information revealed that Jared Dowell had left the officer bleeding from his face as well as the knowledge that police had about the connection between this protest and violent extremist activities nationwide

 

Jared Dowell and Andrea Colletti booking photos

While Jared is unlikely to face any real punishment for his actions due to the massive amount of political power that his mother has, the case will likely end in yet another example of criminality and violence from Antifa being enabled by the system.

Miami Antifa members indicted federally for Jane's Revenge attacks on pregnancy centers - Caleb Freestone and Amber Smith-Stewart

Caleb Freestone and Amber Smith-Stewart, two well known members of Miami Antifa have been charged with Civil Rights Conspiracy and violating the FACE act for vandalizing multiple pro-life pregnancy centers in Florida as a part of 'Jane's Revenge' decentralized terror organization

Following the May 2nd 2022 leak of the Dobbs decision that would eventually overturn Roe v Wade left wing extremists across the country began a campaign of arson and vandalism in retaliation. This arson was targeted at churches, pro-life pregnancy centers, pro-life organizations, and pro-life politicians. Following a firebombing in Madison Wisconsin, a group claimed responsibility under the name Jane's Revenge, through an extremist podcaster. The associated messaging of "If Abortions aren't safe, neither are you" spread and was used in dozens of other attacks across the country.

Molotov attack on anti-abortion group last night in #Madison Wisconsin.

Building was spray painted with Antifa/Anarchist symbols and threats.

article- https://t.co/Avm835qYLB pic.twitter.com/FnevgwALU7

— AntifaWatch (@AntifaWatch2) May 8, 2022

Despite the large number of attacks no arrests were made until January 24th 2023. Two members of Miami Antifa, Caleb Freestone and Amber Smith-Stewart, were indicted federally for violating the FACE act and a civil rights conspiracy. The charges come from a string of Jane's Revenge associated vandalism around the state of Florida in Winter Haven, Hollywood, and Hialeah. If convicted they face a maximum punishment of 12 years.

 

Vandalism allegedly caused by Freestone and Smith-Stewart

Both Freestone and Smith-Stewart were known to local conservative activists and to AntifaWatch (1, 2) since late 2021. The two had been at a number of demonstrations with Miami Antifa.

 

Caleb Freestone and Amber Smith-Stewart

Caleb Freestone was previously seen at a school board meeting where he was making lists of parents and citizens who expressed disagreement with the indoctrination of children on sexual and gender issues. Freestone ended up being arrested at a school board meeting where he was charged with disorderly conduct, trespassing after a warning and resisting arrest without violence. Those charges ended up being dropped

 

Caleb Freestone making lists of parents

Amber Smith-Stewart has been seen with Freestone at several events. She openly identified as 'Miami-Dade Antifa' on her Facebook page as well as on other social media platforms where she has posted calls for 'Direct Action' across the country.

 

Amber Smith-Stewart's Facebook

Smith-Stewart was originally represented by Federal Public Defenders but dropped them and is now represented by two members from CLDC in Oregon. The CLDC is an extremist left legal group that is currently representing Alma Raven-Guido for her alleged arson attack on the Portland Police union building at an Antifa riot.

The pair are being supported with legal funds by the South Florida Anti-Repression Committee, a recently created legal support group for Antifa members. The group is raising money for their legal defense through Democrat affiliated fundraising platform ActBlue. The ActBlue campaign money goes to 'Community Justice Exchange' which is a project of the Tides Center. The Tides Center is separate nonprofit from the Tides Foundation, but it's overseen by it. The Foundation has connections to a variety of leftist entities such as Media Matters & Soros.

Violent Atlanta Antifa member who attacked a federal building with molotovs and nail bombs gets only 32 months - Richard Tyler Hunsinger

Richard Tyler Hunsinger threw molotovs and nail bombs into an occupied federal building in Portland Antifa inspired riot, but escapes a terrorism enhancement and gets only 32 months in federal prison - 18 years below the guideline sentence

On Feb 13, 2023 violent Antifa member Richard Tyler Hunsinger was sentenced to 32 months in federal prison. The case was one of the most extreme and dangerous that came out out of the 2020 riots. While he pled guilty to throwing firebombs and nail bombs into an occupied federal building, a federal judge did not accept a terrorism enhancement on his sentence.

The charges against Hunsinger came from a July 25th 2020 Antifa riot. There were ongoing riots in Portland Oregon at the time, many of these riots were targeting the ICE facility there. In response Antifa groups in Atlanta put out a direct action call for a "Rally Against Fascism" on the night of July 25th. The planned riot would target a federal building in Atlanta. Hunsinger promoted this direct action call on his account Dickophrenic, under which he used the account title "Millions of dead landlords", a reference to communist killing landlords in China.

At around 11:30 a small number of people in black bloc approached the federal building and smashed out windows using rocks, cinderblocks, and bricks. They then threw modified fireworks, molotov cocktails, and improvised nail bombs into the building. Lasers were used and were pointed into the eyes of a Federal Protective Service Inspector who was in the federal building at the time of the attack. Some video of the attack was shared on social media. Rioters can be heard yelling "burn it down" and shooting fireworks at the building. The attack left the building heavily damaged. Some video and images of the damage were posted on social media and mostly local news outlets.

Unfortunately for Hunsinger, the attack did not go as he would have hoped. Law enforcement immediately noticed a large quantity of blood inside the hallway section of the first floor within the federal building. Federal law enforcement quickly contacted local hospitals looking for someone who went in for an injury that matched, this led to Hunsinger almost immediately being identified as a suspect. Hospital security video also showed Hunsinger wearing the same clothes as was seen by cameras at the federal building.

 

Hunsinger in black bloc clothing during the attack

Despite the injury and large amount of physical DNA evidence left at the scene Hunsinger returned to the scene of the crime the next morning, where his license plate was noted by authorities. Roughly 2 months later police obtained his DNA from a used coffee cup and matched it with the blood from the crime scene. Hunsinger was arrested on November 5th 2020, charged with arson, civil disorder, and destroying federal property then taken to a federal holding facility. The story of his arrest and all the detailed was originally broken by us, local outlets like The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported on it days later with headlines like "Justice or bias? Activists decry federal tactics against protesters"

 

Hunsinger in jail

Hunsinger immediately got support from his girlfriend Kathryn Richards who setup a "Free Richard" Twitter page to organize support. Kathryn had accompanied him to the hospital on the night of the attack, and was likely a participant in the demonstration. In addition to that support the Atlanta Solidarity Fund fund stepped in to provide financial support. He was initially denied bond, but roughly a month and a half later, with support from State Senator Vincent Fort and a number of others he was released on a 10k bond and had to return to live in Virginia with his parents.

 

Letter of Support from Vincent Fort

The case was very slow moving, Hunsinger made a motion to suppress DNA evidence found on his coffee cup and the hospital record, but ultimately took a plea deal in October of 2022 where he pled to civil disorder and property destruction, avoiding the arson charge and its 5 year mandatory minimum.

Hunsinger was set to be sentenced in January of 2023, however that was pushed back to February as the sentencing was contested. Despite a guideline sentence being 21-27 years, federal prosecutors only asked for 7 years. That 7 years was with a terrorism enhancement on the sentence.

 

Sentencing memo noting the terrorism connection

Despite the extreme nature of the offense, Obama appointed Judge Amy Totenberg sentenced Hunsinger to just 32 months in federal prison. Left wing violence and terrorism continues in Atlanta today with Stop Cop City, who directly noted lessons to be learned from Hunsinger's case in a post that went up on the website of extremist propaganda outlet "Atlanta Community Press Collective"

US Army Soldier charged with interstate rioting for smashing up a boys and girls center at Washington Antifa riot - Kenneth Harold

Kenneth Harold, while stationed at Joint Based Lewis-McChord in Washington allegedly collaborated with Portland Antifa members to incite a riot that ended with violent assaults on police and a smashed up boys and girls center.

On February 8th 2023 Federal authorities in Oregon have indicted Kenneth Harold in case from the 2020 riots. The now separated US Army Soldier Kenneth Harold is accused of Interstate riot.

Portland Oregon was the epicenter of left wing violence in 2020 and 2021. Portland had 100+ nights of rioting during the summer of 2020 with million in damage and hundreds of arrests. However after the majority of the rioting ended in 2021, very little effort was put in by authorities to make arrests from past rioting. This case is part of small handful of cases brought since.

At a specific April 20th 2021 riot, following the Derek Chauvin guilty verdict a group of BLM and Antifa gathered near the North Precinct in Portland. They set off marching quickly vandalizing everything in their path. The vandalism targets included a bank, grocery store, Starbucks, Popeyes, Boost Mobile, and Boys and Girls club sponsored by the Portland Trailblazers. There were additional violent assaults targetting Portland Police officers. The Boys and Girls club, despite having BLM art on their windows, had several of their windows smashed.

The Blazers Boy’s and Girl’s club next to the North Portland police precinct. #Portland #PDX #Protest pic.twitter.com/sALIsaYbYU

— Independent Media PDX (@NDpendentPDX) April 20, 2021

The the indictment against Harold alleges that while stationed at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington he communicated over text message with other extremists to plot violent direct action. Texts outlined in the indictment specifically have him stating that they needed to smash out windows, talking about tools he wanted to try using to smash out windows, and celebrating the previous night's vandalism. The tool Harold was texting about is a common window breaking tool, frequently put in cars for situations when breaking a window is necessary for safety purposes. Texts also indicate that Harold participated in rioting in Seattle.

He explicitly states his motivations in other texts. Harold texted "you guys should just smash anything. Every business upholds capitalism. The more destruction the more clearly people realize we're angry and actually mean it." and while referring to the Boys and Girls Center he texted "they're a slimy nonprofit just like the rest"

Harold was ultimately arrested at the riot by Portland Police. He was booked for felony criminal mischief. Other individuals such as Randy Gray were arrested at the riot with Harold, Gray was spotted on video sucker punching an officer in the Face.

Violent extremist and #portland #antifa member Randy Gray pleaded guilty yesterday to 2021 charges from sucker punching a PPB officer during a 4/20 riot.

As usual, he was sentenced to probation. He pled to disorderly conduct, with the assault on an officer deferred. pic.twitter.com/qGWpa1jYvH

— AntifaWatch (@AntifaWatch2) December 22, 2022

Harold was arraigned for riot, criminal mischief and Unlawfully Possessing a Graffiti Implement in Multnomah County court. He was then released without bail. Far left District Attorney Mike Schmidt, was responsbile for the case and according to the docket made little to no effort on it, the information expired and it was dismissed. Schmidt has used prosecutorial discretion to bring forward very few left wing rioting cases. Randy Gray, who was arrested at the same riot did have his case prosecuted, but despite overwhelming evidence Mike Schmidt let the case be pled down to disorderly conduct, with the assault on an officer deferred. Gray was sentenced to probation.

Since Harold's case was dismissed, it also meant that Harold could get the window punch, that he allegedly used to vandalize the Boys and Girls Center back.

 

Harold's window punch, with the court's return order

While the US Military lashes out at any sort of right wing Extremism (real or entirely made up) left wing extremism within the ranks has been somewhat common and almost entirely ignored. US Army veteran Ty John Fox was arrested for throwing large commercial fireworks at police, that case was dismissed despite clear evidence.

In one of the most egregious example USAF airman Larry Raynold Williams Jr got time served for firebombing a police car during the 2020 riots. Hill was an Airman 1st Class with the US Air Force at Hill AFB where he worked in the 3PO security field. Williams stole a USAF issued gas mask and took it to a George Floyd riot in Salt Lake City Utah where he participated in the arson and destruction of a police vehicle. He ended up being identified by the stolen gas mask, with the Lot Number inscribed on the underside of the M61 filter being used to find him. Williams received time served for this, time served was 2 days according to the docket.

Larry Raynold Williams Jr was sentenced today on federal charges for torching a cop car in Salt Lake City during the George Floyd riots

He was sentenced to time served, house arrest & probation. Time served was 2 days

Charge also appears to have been dismissed during sentencing pic.twitter.com/1TETwMPAij

— AntifaWatch (@AntifaWatch2) January 29, 2022

Additionally no record of UCMJ action exists for Williams or Harold on the US Army Court-Martial Public Record System or Air Force Records.

Harold had his Arraignment on the 21st, he pled not guilty. He's free on bond with conditions currently. A Jury Trial is set for 4/11/2023, however this will likely be pushed back. The overwhelming majority of federal cases against left wing rioters in Oregon have been dismissed, with many of those who have pled guilty receiving probationary sentences. It will be interesting to see the extent to which Oregon USAO prosecutes this case.