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In December 2018 I traveled to Seattle to document an antifa protest outside city hall as part of my freelance journalistic work. Armed antifa activists with the JBGC tried to prevent me from recording.
The crowd surrounded me and one man threatened me with death. Seattle police were an arm's length away. I reported the threat after event but to my knowledge no action was ever taken.
Here is my video which captures Willem van Spronsen, the JBGC antifa militia member who was killed yesterday outside the Tacoma, Washington ICE facility. Police say he arrived with a rifle & began to firebomb the place & attempted to make a tank explode.
Seattle Antifa Action has posted a eulogy & the ICE firebomber's alleged manifesto on its Facebook page that was sent to friends before the attack. In it, he allegedly wrote: "I am antifa, I stand with comrades around the world..." 
It’s Going Down, the main antifa news site, has posted full text of van Spronsen’s manifesto. Addressed to his comrades, he borrows rhetoric from AOC, referring to ICE centers as “concentration camps." At the end, he encourages comrades "to arm themselves."itsgoingdown.org/on-williem-van…
