SAN DIEGO (CN) — Multiple left-wing protesters received sentences of up to two years in jail on Friday in a novel case that pinned them as members of “antifa” that tried to stifle the speech of right-wingers in the San Diego neighborhood of Pacific Beach in 2021.
San Diego Superior Court Judge Daniel Goldstein said that the trial proved to him that antifa exists as an organization that appears to “have funding and they have an ability to make contact and morph into other things very quickly in many different jurisdictions.”
The defendants, he added, committed assault on supporters of former president Donald Trump and right-wing groups to stifle their First Amendment rights “for the benefit of antifa.”
