When I reported on the shooting of a police officer near an ICE facility in Alvarado, Texas on the Fourth of July, I wondered: “What were these violent activists planning? Why were they wearing body armor and masks?”
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Thankfully, despite being hit in the neck, the officer survived and was released from the hospital.
I wondered what they were up to because it certainly appeared as if this armed group had more sinister plans than the lone shooting—as bad as that was—because they were heavily armed, with some wearing body armor and others covered in mud. They had goggles and masks and fliers reading: “Resist fascism,” “fight oligarchy, and “fight ICE terror.”
It sure looked like they were looking for big trouble, and according to Acting U.S. Attorney Nancy Larson, that’s exactly