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Antifa Is Mentioned Just Once in Court Docs for Hundreds of BLM Protest Arrests: AP

A probe of thousands of pages of court records found that those arrested were mostly not highly organized urbanites, as Trump has claimed.

Very few of the hundreds of people arrested in the protests following the death of George Floyd are officially affiliated with radical left-wing groups like antifa, the Trump administration’s favorite bogeyman, according to the Associated Press. Having pored through thousands of pages of court documents related to over 300 protest-related federal criminal charges for offenses like property destruction or disorderly conduct, the AP found that most were not the highly organized, urban-dwelling leftists President Trump has made them out to be. In reality, over 40 percent of arrestees were white, over two-thirds were under 30, and many were from the suburbs—the places Trump keeps vowing to protect from antifa. The AP found only one passing mention of “antifa” in a Boston shooting case. In September, FBI Director Christopher Wray told a congressional panel that antifa is more of “an ideology or a movement,” not a formal organization.