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April 21, 2018: Police in Newnan, Georgia respond to the dangerous threat of non-violent, unarmed people wearing masks by pointing assault rifles at them before assaulting and arresting them.
Back in April 2018, full-on nazis from the National Socialist Movement held a rally in Newnan, GA. Anti-fascists showed up to defend the community from that threat and were attacked – by Georgia police . 400 cops pointed assault rifles at, beat, and arrested anti-fascists – ten people were arrested in all.
The International Anti-Fascist Defence Fund stepped u p at the time to help out – paying a big chunk of the legal defense costs for two anti-fascists and helping one in his constitutional challenge of Georgia’s anti-mask ordinance , which he was on the wrong end of when he was charged under it at this action. Our help, along with the support of groups like The Atlanta Solidarity Fund , helped get these antifa out of jail and made sure they had good lawyers representing them when the time came.
It’s been a minute but the ASF posted a recent update, so we thought this would be a good time to fill y’all in on some of the things that have happened since then:
Unfortunately, the challenge to the anti-mask ordinance did not succeed on appeal. We still think challenging that law – and its selective application – was absolutely the right thing to do.
Then over the last few days, a second anti-fascist arrested at this action who also sued the police won an award of $40,000!
It’s important to push back on police repression of anti-fascism with every tool available. We are proud to have been able to help the anti-fascists who defended Newnan in 2018 to defend themselves in court and to aggressively go after the police for blatantly violating their rights.
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