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Southern Poverty Law Center Has Long History of Carrying Water for Antifa Extremists <a target='_blank' rel='nofollow' href='https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/03/07/southern-poverty-law-center-has-long-history-carrying-water-antifa'>https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/03/07/southern-poverty-law-center-has-long-history-carrying-water-antifa</a>/ The Georgia Bureau of Investigation charged a staff attorney at the Southern Poverty Law Center with domestic terrorism for his involvement Sunday in a violent attack on police officers at the construction site for a police training facility near Atlanta. Although the SPLC claimed the attorney was a legal observer, the agitators were dressed in Antifa-style black bloc for the attack on the facility they call Cop City, and the SPLC has a long history of carrying water for Antifa rioters. The SPLC claimed that the lawyer&rsquo;s arrest &ldquo;is not evidence of any crime, but of heavy-handed law enforcement intervention against protesters.&rdquo; The Atlanta Police Department reported that agitators threw &ldquo;rocks, bricks, Molotov cocktails, and fireworks at police,&rdquo; destroying multiple pieces of construction equipment and threatening bodily harm. But the SPLC&rsquo;s statement didn&rsquo;t condemn the violence, instead directing criticism at &ldquo;a months-long escalation of policing tactics against protesters and observers.&rdquo; The National Lawyers Guild, which released a joint statement with the SPLC and identified the SPLC attorney and alleged terrorist as one of the guild&rsquo;s legal observers, called all 23 arrests Sunday, out of 34 detained, &ldquo;part of ongoing state repression and violence against environmental justice protesters.&rdquo; Police released video showing more than 100 rioters advancing on the future site of the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center. The National Lawyers Guild stated that it &ldquo;remains in solidarity with the movement to Stop Cop City,&rdquo; and the SPLC urged the &ldquo;de-escalation of violence and police use of force against Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities,&rdquo; without mentioning the violence against police office