Eight members of an Antifa group were sentenced to jail last Friday. The underlying incident happened in San Diego back in January 2021 when a pro-Trump rally was met by an equal number of counter-protesters. Many of the counter-protesters were anti-fascists dressed in black clothes and prepared to attack people that day. The case dragged on because of the pandemic but in June 2022 11 members of the group were indicted by a grand jury.
Nine of the 11 pleaded guilty and the final two, Brian Cortez Lightfoot and Jeremy Jonathan White, were convicted in a trial that concluded in May. As I described last week, White had traveled to the event from Los Angeles and has sought every possible loophole to avoid taking responsibility for his crimes. He changed his plea to not guilty by reason of insanity at one point and then retracted that after he was convicted. He also announced just prior…
