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Apr 2, 2024 • 8 tweets • 7 min read • Read on X
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Happening now: Two So Cal Antifa members are on trial in San Diego County for their alleged roles in a violent 2021 conspiracy at Pacific Beach where people, including a woman and child, were beaten. Nine out of the 11 Antifa defendants have already pleaded guilty to various violent felonies. Pictured below, @SDDistAtty prosecutor Makenzie Harvey presents evidence in opening statements about the Antifa aliases defendants Jeremy J. "The Antifa Soldier" White and Brian "Antifa Boy ACAB 5" Lightfoot used while communicating plans on Signal. Both are represented pro bono by far-left San Francisco attorneys.

At the beginning of trial, defendant White suddenly pleaded he's "not guilty by reason of insanity." Court photos today by Ken Stone/Times of San Diego. thepostmillennial.com/andy-ngo-repor…Image
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.@EvaKnott and I have been reporting on the So Cal Antifa case for years. It remains the first time any district attorney was willing to charge violent Antifa members with felony conspiracy, signaling that they're an organized movement with cells that plan and carry out violent crimes. Nine out of the 11 indicted have been convicted already. Read our reporting: thepostmillennial.com/author/eva?utm…Image
Antifa attorney John Hamasaki, who is representing Antifa "ringleader" Brian Lightfoot pro bono, tried to get my colleague @EvaKnott banned from reporting on the trial. He filed a frivolous motion and was laughed out of court thanks to the robust response from free speech lawyer @GillSperlein and the support of @Liberty_Ctr.

Court photo taken today by Ken Stone/Times of San Diego.thepostmillennial.com/attorney-for-a…Image
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Leftist Oakland attorney Curtis Briggs, who represents violent felony Antifa suspect Jeremy Jonathan White pro bono, previously filed a motion to disqualify the San Diego County District Attorney's Office from prosecuting the felony conspiracy case. He was hoping it would go to the California Attorney General, a Democrat, where it would be dropped. The request was denied by San Diego Judge Daniel Goldstein. Read:

April 2, 2024 trial photo by Ken Stone/Times of San Diegothepostmillennial.com/andy-ngo-repor…Image
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@EvaKnott San Diego reporter @ZaraBarkertv reports on the two So Cal Antifa members who are on trial for a brutal attack at Pacific Beach in 2021. Their pro bono leftist attorneys argue they were peacefully protesting despite videos showing the violent attacks.
So Cal Antifa member Erich Louis "Nikki" Yach was the first of the 11 Antifa defendants to plead guilty and be sent to prison. He was arrested at a border crossing between California and Mexico. He was sentenced to five years in prison in November 2022, a sentence enhanced by the fact that he was out on bail for a previous violent felony when he carried out attacks at the January 2021 Antifa riot. During sentencing, Yach's partner asked the court to house him in a women's facility and to refer to his name as "Nikki." Yach was given early release from prison this week as his comrades were in trial. Read: thepostmillennial.com/violent-san-di…Image
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As the So Cal Antifa criminal trial continued in San Diego County on April 4, one of Antifa's victims testified about being beaten by the mob in 2021 when he was a minor boy. He was at a pro-Trump gathering with friends from school when they were jumped by Antifa. Leftist defense attorney Curtis Briggs for Antifa member Jeremy J. White suggested the boy was asking for it by standing around with his friends as Antifa surrounded them.

Trial photo by Ken Stone/Times of San Diegothepostmillennial.com/andy-ngo-repor…Image
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Jan 8
Breaking: Two people have just been shot by Border Patrol during an immigration operation in Portland, Ore. Anti-ICE accounts have circulated screenshots alleging that a 911 dispatcher leaked to them information about a call for police assistance.

The call log also shows a 911 call from Border Patrol stated that a husband and wife who were shot almost ran the agent(s) over. ABC News is reporting that the shooting occurred near East Burnside and 141st Avenue.Image
Developing information about the DHS-involved shooting in Portland, Ore. of a man and woman.

Around 2:18 p.m., Portland Police were alerted to a call by a man who said he was shot. The man drove from a medical center parking lot, where the shooting occurred, to 146th and East Burnside. Police responded and called for first responders, who took the two injured to a hospital.

A 911 call log shows Border Patrol called police and reported that the couple attempted to run over the agents. That information isn't being reported by the media or leftist activists who are agitating violence.
Portland @MayorKWilson has released a statement about the Border Patrol-involved shooting in Portland. A man and woman reported being shot after fleeing from a scene. A 911 call log shows Border Patrol reported being nearly run over by a pickup truck when they fired rounds. The mayor refers to only the injured as "victims." He urges Portlanders to "show up with calm and purpose."Image
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Jan 8
Minneapolis (Jan. 7) — I have identified the leftist radical instructing her comrades to physically obstruct a federal courthouse. She is a lawyer (ID 0397165) named Brenna O'Connor (née Rahmlow) who works in the Hennepin County Public Defender's office.
Brenna Snow Rahmlow, the Minnesota lawyer who tried to organize rioters to surround and obstruct the federal courthouse on Jan. 7, 2026, was arrested in 2019 in Ramsey County, Minn. on accusation of driving under the influence. Image
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In November 2021, Brenna Snow Rahmlow, the Minnesota lawyer who tried to organize rioters to surround and obstruct a Minneapolis federal courthouse, was suspended from the practice of law after she ignored an order to appear at the New Hampshire Supreme Court. Image
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Oct 4, 2025
Wow. In Oregon’s emergency lawsuit to prevent the President from sending troops to protect federal property, a disturbing email from @PortlandPolice Sergeant Andrew Braun (badge #56961) was included. In it, Braun blames the victims of Antifa violence for their own assaults and attacks.

Braun claims that journalist @KatieDaviscourt, citizen journalist @hunnybadgermom and conservative activist @RheinDAmacher are somehow responsible for being attacked by “protesters.” He falsely labels Daviscourt and Chelly Boufferache as “counter-protesters” and accuses them of trespassing on federal property. In reality, these journalists stay near or on federal property because when they're on public streets in Portland, the Portland Police will not bother to investigate if they are assaulted or robbed.

Sgt. Braun is essentially parroting Antifa talking points, which justify violence against those they deem unwelcome in public areas they lay claim to. Antifa regularly argues that anyone they label as an “antagonizer” (i.e., press) is fair game for violent retaliation. This leadership mindset or policy helps explain why Portland Police have systematically failed to protect conservatives from being beaten or robbed by Antifa and the violent far-left over the years. ngocomment.comImage
.@PortlandPolice Sgt. Andrew Braun wrote in an email that is being used by Oregon in a lawsuit to try to stop troops from being sent to protect federal property that journalists @KatieDaviscourt & @hunnybadgermom are to blame for Antifa assaulting them:
@PortlandPolice @KatieDaviscourt @hunnybadgermom .@PortlandPolice Sgt. Andrew Braun wrote in an email that is being used by Oregon in a lawsuit to try to stop troops from being sent to protect federal property that journalists @KatieDaviscourt & @hunnybadgermom
are to blame for Antifa attacking them:
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Sep 24, 2025
An Oakland Antifa trans nonbinary militant who operated an extremist anarcho-communist (Antifa's ideology) blog has been sentenced to more than 19 years in prison for six domestic terrorist attacks. It is the longest sentence for an Antifa militant to date.

Casey Robert Goonan ("they/them"), who has a Ph.D. in black studies, pleaded guilty to using homemade explosive devices in June 2024 to destroy a @UCPD_Cal police vehicle on campus and to attempt to firebomb the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in Oakland. He also admitted to carrying out three arson attacks on the UC Berkeley campus.

Goonan admitted he was inspired by the Hamas direct action terror attacks of Oct. 7 and that he hoped his violence would inspire others to carry out further attacks "for Palestine."

Antifa and far-left militants are calling him a "political prisoner" and are demanding his immediate release.

The mainstream media reporting is not writing about his anarcho-communist violent extremism and is making it sound like he merely did vandalism on a car.Image
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Here is the manifesto and claim of responsibility of the Oakland Antifa trans nonbinary militant, Casey Robert Goonan, who was just sentenced to over 19 years in federal prison for carrying out multiple bombing and arson attacks in the Bay Area. The attacks were done "for Palestine," the latest in a string of violent and deadly attacks in the U.S. where Palestine is invoked.

Goonan has a Ph.D. in black studies from Northwestern University. His lawyer asked for a light sentence, arguing that his client is bipolar and diabetic. Goonan's Antifa and far-left supporters showed up to the sentencing to express support for what he did.Image
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Convicted domestic terrorist and violent trans Antifa militant, Casey Goonan, was involved in a hammer attack on a women's rights conference in San Francisco. He wore the Antifa black bloc uniform and hid his face, but was arrested:
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Sep 22, 2025
The White House announced that the President will be signing an executive order to formalize his Truth Social announcement of declaring Antifa a domestic terrorist organization. @karolineleavitt also lists out several Antifa attacks in the last few years.
Here are some of the Antifa violent attacks that @karolineleavitt highlighted in the announcement from the White House press room: North Texas Antifa cell arrested over ambush shooting attack on ICE facility in July 2025: ngocomment.com/p/two-more-arr…
@karolineleavitt Here are some of the Antifa violent attacks that @karolineleavitt highlighted in the announcement from the White House press room: Portland Antifa militants charged with felony arson and other crimes in ongoing 2025 insurrection against Portland ICE: ngocomment.com/p/four-more-po…
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Sep 19, 2025
On May 28, 2021, I ran for my life through the streets of downtown Portland, Ore.

Antifa had discovered me working undercover after one of their members, John Hacker, exposed me to the mob.

I screamed for help as I fled, but drivers and pedestrians looked away. The businesses were all shuttered, remnants of the ongoing destruction from the 2020 BLM-Antifa riots. There was nowhere to run, nowhere to hide.

They caught me. Antifa tackled me to the ground, tearing my knee tendon in the process as I slid across the pavement. They punched me over and over and tried to choke me out. I barely managed to stumble into @theNinesHotel, begging the staff to call 911. Instead, they tried to force me back outside and told me to wear a Covid mask. I dropped to the floor, refusing to move, pleading for them to call the police. They refused.

Outside, Antifa gathered. One of their ringleaders, Elizabeth Richter — the blonde woman — began rallying the crowd. She called on others on a livestream to come finish me off. She went inside the hotel and threatened me. Antifa also tried breaking their way into the hotel.

I escaped only by jumping into an elevator with a hotel guest. After that, I was taken by ambulance to the hospital with a police guard. I was soaked in my blood. On social media, Antifa immediately began trying to track which hospital I was in, hoping to finish the job.

As soon as I was discharged, I had to flee Portland. I moved between safe houses in different states. Antifa’s hunt for me was far from over.

@PortlandPolice closed the case a few weeks afterward, saying they couldn’t identify anyone. Nobody was ever arrested, just like in 2019 when I was beaten to the point that my brain bled.
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What happened afterward? In 2023, at a civil trial in Portland, I sued John Hacker and Elizabeth Richter, two Antifa militants involved in that mob attack in the video above. A liberal judge allowed the defense's objection to the damning Twitter DMs between the two on the night of the attack from being shown to jurors. The trial was marred by multiple security threats that resulted in jurors being rushed out for safety reasons.

Hacker's lawyer told the jurors in the closing statement that she was Antifa and, “I'm going to remember every one of your faces when you leave here.” They rendered a not liable verdict for both.

Dustin Ferreira, the man in the wheelchair inciting the mob to try to break into the hotel to attack me, was given a $400,000 settlement last year by Portland for being arrested at a riot. ngocomment.com/p/inside-the-a…Image
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