Anti-Israel protestors and Hamas sympathizers who desecrated Washington, D.C.'s Union Station have learned their fates.
A minimum of eight people who participated in the anti-Israel protest during Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech Wednesday are now facing federal criminal charges after defacing federal property and fighting police.
Some protestors, however, have had their charges dropped by more lenient Washington, D.C. prosecutors.
Frederick Coates, Crow Momamome and Antonio Somerville have all been charged with attempting to carry a dangerous weapon, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office in D.C.
Nathaniel Lawrence, Sonia Krishan and Roger Miller have been charged with attempted theft.
Zachary Kam has been charged with two counts of assaulting a police officer.
And Essa Ejelat has been charged with making threats.
The American flag was reportedly taken off of a flag pole outside of D.C.'s Union Station train terminal before being burned by anti-Israel protestors. The demonstration began outside of Capitol Hill during Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu's address to Congress. Then the demonstrators marched to the century-old train station and burnt its flag and graffitid its monuments
Authorities also maintain that the protest, which began near the National Mall close to the U.S. Capitol before heading to the train terminal, is still an open investigation and updates could come.
In addition to those charged there are numerous protestors who were arrested that will not face charges, Fox News reports.
The D.C. attorney general's office got at least 11 cases 'no-papered,' which means that the charges were dropped.
Among those three were charges for crossing police lines, five were for disorderly conduct and inducing violence and three were for disorderly conduct causing unreasonable fear.
All of the charges are misdemeanors.
Further, the report reveals an additional five pending cases for crowding and obstructing, though prosecutors have yet to decide whether to press charges.
Hundreds of activists have gathered outside the gates of Downing Street in Westminster as part of a protest against the detention of members of the Global Sumud Flotilla, which included Greta Thunberg. The march, taking place just hours after a 'barbaric' knife attack outside the Heaton Park Synagogue in Manchester, has been criticised for its poor timing and described as 'disgraceful, disrespectful'. A knifeman, revealed to be an Islamist terrorist by the Daily Mail, went on a 'barbaric' rampage slaughtering two people and leaving four seriously injured. Fiona Smith, 42, was among those taking part in the demonstration, during which she was heard saying: 'I don't give a f*** about the Jewish community right now.'
Leading Jewish figures gave defiant speeches in Trafalgar Square on the eve of the anniversary of the October 7 massacre in Israel, where they warned they face their biggest threat in a generation. Around 3,000 people gathered in the same spot where 24 hours earlier 500 people were arrested at a pro-Palestine protests. Meanwhile, hundreds of people joined a rally in Manchester, despite safety concerns in the wake of the terror attack on a synagogue in the city on Thursday. The gathering, organised by North West Friends of Israel, saw people wave Israel flags and some held banners calling for the release of the hostages.
As liberal pundits and networks across the country downplay the rise of violence carried out by Antifa, a journalist who has covered the domestic terrorist designated group extensively pushed back on that narrative in an interview with Fox News Digital. Social media has been littered with posts in recent weeks featuring elected officials and pundits dismissing concerns about Antifa violence as simply an "ideology" rather than an organized effort, which Ngo argues is a message driven by tacit support of the cause.
"It is an ideology, but Neo-Nazis organize around an ideology, jihadists organize around an ideology, so what's your point really? The point you're really trying to do, when people bring that up, is to run cover for Antifa because these people on the left know that organized militant Antifa networks themselves and individuals operate as shock troops for their cause."
"They have the same enemies, they want the same outcomes in terms of the institutions destroyed and they want the political opposition intimidated into silence and disengaging from the political process." Ngo went on by explaining that individuals who doubt the existence of Antifa networks should watch the footage that he and other independent journalists have published.
"I would show them the video from June 2019 when people working in an organized manner beat me with their faces covered, having weapons, and escaped," Ngo said. "Nobody was ever arrested for that. If that's not convincing enough, I would tell them to watch the shooting video of the assassination of Aaron Danielson in Portland in 2020, a Trump supporter who was killed by somebody who actually left behind a manifesto. If you don't believe the video, you can read his manifesto. He describes himself, I am 100% Antifa."
President Trump, who issued an executive order last month declaring Antifa a domestic terrorist organization, hosted a roundtable at the White House on Wednesday where Ngo, and other prominent independent journalists, spoke to the president about the violence they have seen and experienced first hand.
Antifa is a far-left militant movement that describes itself as antifascist. It has been accused of organizing or encouraging violent riots, notably during the 2020 "defund the police" protests and, more recently, in attacks targeting federal immigration facilities. Ngo said his biggest takeaway from that event with Trump was the recognition of the dangerous work journalists have done covering Antifa violence in recent years with little to no support from mainstream outlets or elected officials.
"I've been reporting on Antifa now for about nine years, and for some of that time it did feel like I was reporting on something that nobody who could do something about it would listen," Ngo told Fox News Digital. "And there was a lot of despair through that time. I saw a lot violence, saw death, and I suffered violence myself. I feel optimistic now. I think Antifa’s a confusing topic and subject, and I'm thankful that I have the expertise to be able to share that with the administration."
Ngo told Fox News Digital he carries "so much gratitude to the president" for holding the event, saying, "They have a million things to do. There's a lot of important things on the world stage. Yet, nearly two hours is dedicated on this topic. So I don't take any of it for granted, and I'm just thankful to have been able to be there." Ngo also told Fox News Digital the event was "bittersweet" for him personally due to losing his father earlier this year.
"I wish he had been around to see that," Ngo said. "My parents were refugees of communism from Vietnam. I don't know how they would take it if they knew the full extent of far-left militancy in America and that they raised a son who's put himself at a lot of risk to try to expose it. So I wish my father was there to share in that moment."
Ngo’s family history living under communism is relevant in the conversation today regarding Antifa, the Portland-born journalist told Fox Digital, given the underlying communist beliefs espoused by radical left movements in the United States today..
"For a century now, communists and anarchists, particularly in Europe, have engaged in violent acts that have sparked revolutions and the Antifa today look to those historical examples in the acts of violence they carry out," Ngo said, adding that many "normal" and mainstream liberals in the country are confused by the "deception and misinformation" in the media regarding Antifa.
"If you read the mainstream, one can leave with the impression that these are people who are opposed just to fascism and racism. So why not come on board with that, right?" Ngo explained. "When really the ideology is anarchist communism and violent anarchist-communism a lot of them engage in violence for the purpose of nihilistic violence. They want to see things burnt down. Their own slogan has become ungovernable. So if you care about democracy, liberal democracy in institutions, civil rights…you should not. You cannot be anywhere on the side of advocating or running cover for these so-called Antifa."
Ngo went on to say that Antifa messaging and ideology is becoming more and more "mainstream" with the evidence for that being the "depraved worldview philosophy" that has given rise to those who celebrated the assassinations of Charlie Kirk, United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, and those who "call for myself and others to be assassinated."
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem slammed Antifa during the Wednesday roundtable arguing that the network is "just as sophisticated as MS-13, as TdA, as ISIS, as Hezbollah, as Hamas, as all of them." She said that authorities recently arrested the girlfriend of the founder of Antifa in Portland, and that investigators are trying to garner more information from her about the network of newly-labeled "domestic terrorists" during their prosecution. Noem said the administration's explicit goal is to "eliminate [Antifa] from the existence of American society."
"These individuals do not just want to threaten our law enforcement officers, threaten our journalists and the citizens of this country. They want to kill them," Noem said.
