The US Department of Justice has taken an official stance on the American protests: it supports peaceful protests by citizens, but will investigate all cases of violence.
Attorney General William Barr specifically divided protesters into two categories: peaceful protesters and pogromists. The latter included anarchists, Antifa activists, and criminal gangs. In addition, Barr is confident that there is a “foreign footprint” in the riots in the United States.
Federal prosecutors believe that pogroms and robberies were planned in advance: they did not become just a spontaneous reaction of the crowd to permissiveness. Coordination of actions could also be carried out by the “Antifa” fighters.
For example, in the areas of Brooklyn and Queens, before the riots began, special piles of cobblestones appeared, as if waiting for those who would start throwing them. In Tampa (Florida) and Seattle (Washington), police discovered “caches” with Molotov cocktails and flammable substances prepared for thunderbolts.
And in Los Angeles in the ranks of the demonstrators there was a showdown. Black Lives Matter leaders were invited to the city hall and convinced of the need for a peaceful protest (perhaps by treating them with a viscari). Anarchists and “Antifa” considered this a betrayal of the interests of other protesters.
Attorney General Barr separately commented on statements made by the authorities of some liberal states who were afraid to blame the “Antifa” and instead blamed the mythical “white nationalists” for the riots. The US Department of Justice did not record the participation of the ultra-right in organizing the pogroms: it was precisely the ultra-left groups that stood behind them.
It is these associations, now recognized as terrorist, that will become the main target of the FBI in the coming months. Antifa is waiting for a retaliatory strike from the entire power structure of the American government.