Five Antifa activists arrested during a clash with law enforcement at the proposed site of Atlanta’s new public safety academy have been charged with domestic terrorism.
- Five Antifa activists arrested during a clash with law enforcement at the proposed site of Atlanta’s new public safety academy have been charged with domestic terrorism.
- The protesters set up treehouses in the forest since June to block the construction of the facility and had begun attacking police and other emergency services workers at the scene with rocks, bottles and a gas bomb.
- Those arrested were Serena Hertel, 25, of California, Nicholas Olson, 25, of Nebraska, Francis Carroll, 22, of Maine, Arieon Robinson, 22, of Wisconsin, and Leonardo Vioselle, 20, of Macon, Ga.
- Convictions of domestic terrorism carry sentences of anywhere between five and 35 years in prison.