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2026-06-24 Fifth Column
Antifa leader Benjamin Song sentenced to 100 years for Texas anti-ICE terror attack, 7 other militants also sentenced
[PM] Lesson taught?
Eight members of a North Texas Antifa cell have been given decades in prison for their roles in an attack on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in the state in July of 2025.

Sentences handed down to the group of eight militants ranged from 30 years to 100 years. Ringleader Benjamin Hanil Song received the highest sentence, with US District Judge Mark T Pittman sentencing him to 100 years, Andy Ngo reported. Song had been convicted of charges that included attempted murder and discharging a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, the most serious charges in the case. Song had shot Alvarado Police Lt. Thomas Gross in the neck during the attack on the facility, which took place on July 4, 2025.



Courtesy of Jack Guelph2611, the Andy NGO report:
The antifa domestic terrorists who attacked an ICE facility and shot an officer got a combined 450 years in prison. The ringleader got 100 years.
Excellent.
[NgoComment] Eight members of a North Texas Antifa terror cell received historic federal sentences on Tuesday, with prison terms ranging from 30 years to life in prison for their roles in the shooting ambush on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility. The attack led to the first federal Antifa terrorism prosecution — and later convictions — in U.S. history.

U.S. District Judge Mark T. Pittman sentenced ringleader Benjamin Hanil Song to 100 years in prison. Song was convicted of the most serious offenses in the case, including attempted murder and discharging a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence. Prosecutors proved at trial that he shot Alvarado Police Lt. Thomas Gross in the neck during the Fourth of July attack last year.

Daniel Rolando Sanchez-Estrada, a Mexican national, received 30 years in prison.
Lt. Gross survived the shooting. Jurors were shown his blood-stained ballistic vest during testimony.
The others:
Bradford Morris, a trans militant and sex worker known as “Meagan Morris”
Maricela Rueda
Elizabeth Soto
Cameron Arnold, also known as “Autumn Hill”
Zachary Evetts
Savanna Batten
Daniel Rolando Sanchez-Estrada, a Mexican national



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Posted by Frank G 2026-06-24 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1888 views ]  Top
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1 With time off for good behavior he'll be out in 96.
Posted by EMS Artifact 2026-06-24 00:05||   2026-06-24 00:05|| Front Page Top

2 ^Unless the next POTUS is D.
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2026-06-24 01:35||   2026-06-24 01:35|| Front Page Top

3 

It makes a good attention getting headline.
But likely in 2 years, after being lawyered to death in appeals courts. It will be overturned or reduced to 5 to 10 years, with time served and parole for X# of years.

Because all it takes is 1 Obama/Biden appointed judge.

Heck, if they pull off another Far Left, Liberal, Socialist, Democrat run coup again. They might even pardon him and award him the Presidential Citizens Medal.
Posted by NN2N1 2026-06-24 02:12||   2026-06-24 02:12|| Front Page Top

4 Maybe. But they’ll have files with lots of information, easing the path the next time they need to be arrested, not to mention tracing their networks. After all, these are low level cannon fodder — we want to start rolling up those at the top, right?
Posted by trailing wife 2026-06-24 02:17||   2026-06-24 02:17|| Front Page Top

5 
I'd want to know who ringleader Benjamin Hanil Song received his orders from. If it was a NGO Front Cover, then who were the big donors?
Posted by NN2N1 2026-06-24 02:32||   2026-06-24 02:32|| Front Page Top

6 about that civil war they're planning...

Da Bee
Posted by Mercutio 2026-06-24 08:42||   2026-06-24 08:42|| Front Page Top

7 Is it wrong for me to want to see their expressions when they hear the sentences because I would enjoy it?

Federal so no parole.

Unless the FBI scooped up a lot of data to find and arrest the leadership and the people funding them, it will get worse before it gets better. It won't discourage the true believers and facing jail terms will make some of them more willing to die in a confrontation with law enforcement.
Posted by Chantry 2026-06-24 09:01||   2026-06-24 09:01|| Front Page Top

8 Hanging for sedition solves a lot of future issues.
Posted by DarthVader 2026-06-24 09:10||   2026-06-24 09:10|| Front Page Top

9 So hateful.
I applaud you all.
Posted by Skidmark 2026-06-24 11:12||   2026-06-24 11:12|| Front Page Top

10 Not hateful. They are cancer cells and must be destroyed before they kill the host. It is an operation/purge.
Posted by DarthVader 2026-06-24 11:17||   2026-06-24 11:17|| Front Page Top

11 Texas courts should have a go at them. No presidential pardon then. I’m not worried about a federal appeal; appeals are a minimum of 3 judges and subject to further appeals before an even larger panel of judges. No single rogue judge has a say.
Posted by Difar Dave 2026-06-24 14:18||   2026-06-24 14:18|| Front Page Top

12 Long overdue, but welcome news all the same.
Posted by Rex Mundi 2026-06-24 19:27||   2026-06-24 19:27|| Front Page Top

19:25 Silentbrick
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18:42 NoMoreBS
18:28 Mercutio
18:10 Chantry
17:38 Seeking Cure For Ignorance
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16:49 trailing wife
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14:46 NN2N1
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