An armed mob arrested for shooting up a Texas immigration detention center last month are reportedly members of a secretive network of far-left “anti-fascists” trained in self-defense and firearms.
An ex-US Marine Corps reservist and 10 others were nabbed after the group, who were clad in black military-style clothing, opened fire outside the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado back on July 4 — leaving one cop shot in the neck.
In the wake of the attack, it has emerged that several of the suspects have apparent ties to a left-wing extremist group operating out of Dallas, the Washington Post reported.
Some of them were allegedly trained by Benjamin Hanil Song — the former reservist charged with attempted murder in connection with the attack.
Song would allegedly host weekly sessions to train people for “close quarters combat and large-scale gunfights.”
“The people that were showing up to learn from him — a lot were very young, naïve leftists,” said Corey Lyon, a libertarian who attended some of the sessions but later cut ties with Song.
“They were scared. And Ben was offering them a solution for their fear.”
The group, which includes some transgender activists, is believed to have met during the Black Lives Matter protests in the summer of 2020.
They initially focused on social justice demonstrations but have since turned their focus to ICE enforcement.
It wasn’t immediately clear exactly how many of the alleged ICE attackers were involved with the anti-fascist group.
Song, who was arrested after a weeklong search, has been charged with three counts of attempted murder of federal agents and three counts of discharging a firearm in relation to a crime of violence.
He’s also accused of purchasing four of the guns linked to the attack.
Two of the other 10 arrested — Autumn Hill and Meagan Morris — are transgender.
They were all slapped with a slew of charges, including attempted murder of a federal officer, discharging a firearm in relation to a crime of violence and obstruction of justice for concealing evidence.
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