A federal grand jury in the northern district of Texas has indicted two of the 11 individuals charged with the July 4 attack on an ICE detention facility in Prairieland with participating in an Antifa terror attack.
It is the first federal indictment that names Antifa — a motley collection of deranged far-left goons and lunatics who have been waging war on Immigration and Customs Enforcement — and charges members with a terror attack.
The seven-count indictment charges Cameron Arnold and Zachary Evetts with one count of material assistance to terrorists, three counts of attempted murder, and three counts of discharging a firearm to further a violent crime.
Filed yesterday, the indictment came after President Trump designated Antifa a terror group.
The Indictment
On July 4, the 12-page indictment alleges, Antifa Cell members fired fireworks at the ICE detention facility in Prairieland. This drew DHS correctional officers outside to investigate.
“Within minutes, an officer from the Alvarado Police Department arrived on scene, stepped out of his cruiser, and began issuing commands to a black-clad figure running towards another black-clad figure holding a rifle,” the indictment continues:
One Antifa member [Arnold] yelled, “get to the rifles.”
Seconds later, [Arnold] opened fire on the officers, striking the Alvarado police officer in the neck area as the unarmed correctional officers ducked and ran for cover. The wounded officer fell to the ground but was able to return a few shots. [Arnold] continued to fire additional rounds until his rifle jammed. The attackers then left the scene.
Cops arrested 10 cell members after the attack, including Arnold and Evetts.
But they also arrested, as The New American reported, former Marine Benjamin Hanil Song. Song’s arrest raises the possibility that Antifa members have infiltrated the military.
The indictment also describes Antifa and how it operates. The outfit is “a militant enterprise made up of networks of individuals and small groups primarily ascribing to a revolutionary anarchist or autonomous Marxist ideology, which explicitly calls for the overthrow of the United States Government, law enforcement authorities, and the system of law”:
Antifa adherents have espoused insurrection and advocated violence to affect the policy and conduct of the U.S. government by intimidation and coercion. Beginning in 2025, Antifa adherents have increasingly targeted agents and facilities related to DHS’s lmmigration and Customs Enforcement (I.C.E.) in opposition to I.C.E.’s deportation actions and the U.S. government’s policy on the removal of illegal aliens.
Others in the Antifa Cell looked to [Arnold] as a leader. [Arnold] also trained Antifa Cell members on firearms and close-quarters combat.
The cell also possessed more than 50 firearms its members bought in Dallas, Fort Worth, Grand Prairie, and elsewhere, the indictment alleges. Arnold “bought and built numerous AR-platform rifles, some of which he distributed to his codefendants, and at least one of which featured a binary trigger. A binary trigger is a device that allows a firearm to fire more rapidly by causing two bullets to fire with each trigger cycle.”
They used that weapon to shoot at the officers, the indictment alleges.
The cell was also technologically sophisticated and used an encrypted messaging application “to coordinate” the attack.
The Plan
The cell’s plan “was to destroy U.S. government property and commit acts dangerous to human life intended to influence the policy of the U.S. government and affect government conduct by intimidation and coercion,” the indictment alleges:
As one member stated in an encrypted chat, “I’m done with peaceful protests” and “Blue lives don’t matter.”
The cell reconnoitered the site before the attack, including the locations of security cameras. It also “exchanged a map of Prairieland and the surrounding area that showed the locations of nearby police stations.”
The attack was clearly a well-thought-out military operation that included the firearms, fireworks, and medical kits, the indictment alleges:
One Antifa Cell member, for example, said in one group chat that they would be “bringing a wagon to hold armor and rifles.” [Arnold] told the group that they would use rifles to intimidate law enforcement, saying, “Cops are not trained or equipped for more than one rifle so it tends to make them back off.”
The militants dressed in classic Antifa black bloc.
Again, the grand jury charged Arnold and Evetts with providing material aid to terrorists, three counts of attempted murder of a federal agent, and three counts of discharging a firearm to further a violent crime.
Terror Group Designation
Trump designated Antifa a terror outfit on September 22 by noting it is a “terrorist threat.”
The leftist outfit “explicitly calls for the overthrow of the United States Government, law enforcement authorities, and our system of law,” Trump wrote:
It uses illegal means to organize and execute a campaign of violence and terrorism nationwide to accomplish these goals. This campaign involves coordinated efforts to obstruct enforcement of Federal laws through armed standoffs with law enforcement, organized riots, violent assaults on Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other law enforcement officers, and routine doxing of and other threats against political figures and activists. Antifa recruits, trains, and radicalizes young Americans to engage in this violence and suppression of political activity, then employs elaborate means and mechanisms to shield the identities of its operatives, conceal its funding sources and operations in an effort to frustrate law enforcement, and recruit additional members. Individuals associated with and acting on behalf of Antifa further coordinate with other organizations and entities for the purpose of spreading, fomenting, and advancing political violence and suppressing lawful political speech. This organized effort designed to achieve policy objectives by coercion and intimidation is domestic terrorism.
The designation alarmed pro-Antifa Democrats, Antifa supporters in the far-left hate-Trump media, and, alarmingly, even some conservatives. They falsely assert that “Antifa is largely thought of as more of an ideology than an organized group,” as CNN claimed in its report on the indictment.
Amusingly, some Democrats, such as retiring far-left U.S. Representative Jerry Nadler of New York, aver that Antifa doesn’t exist and is a “myth.”
