Unusual "domestic terrorist" apprehended

(RT) ⸻ Authorities in the US state of Georgia have arrested 23 people and charged them with "domestic terrorism" after what they described as a "coordinated attack" on an Atlanta site where a police training center was under construction. Among those arrested is a lawyer for the Southern Poverty Law Center, a group advising the FBI on extremism. The rioters changed into all-black clothes, breached the site, and attacked law enforcement officers with rocks, bricks, Molotov cocktails, and fireworks. An activist collective going by the name 'Defend the Atlanta Forest' has been trying to block the construction of what they dubbed 'Cop City' for months. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has been called 'Treehouse Antifa' for their tactic of camping in the trees marked to be cleared. The discovery of an SPLC staffer among the 'Antifa' made waves, with Congressman Rich McCormick asking if the SPLC would now list itself as a "hate group". The SPLC runs a 'hate watch' program and has been advising US authorities for years on who it considers 'hate groups' and domestic terrorists. In June 2018, the SPLC made a public apology and paid over $3 million for defaming Muslim reformer Maajid Nawaz as an "anti-Muslim extremist" promoting "hate-based violence."