Trump administration targets Cop City protesters in latest push to prosecute ‘antifa’

Critics say the government is ‘creating a boogeyman’ in its drive to use the ‘antifa’ label to frame protesters as terrorists The federal US government is sweeping up protesters against Cop City, a police training center outside Atlanta, in its push to prosecute what it calls “antifa” – even as state attempts to prosecute activists over the same incident failed for the second time this week. The case offers insight into the Trump administration’s drive to link the idea of anti-fascism to terr...

By Timothy Pratt