Trial begins for group accused of antifa links in shooting at Texas immigration detention center

Federal prosecutors told jurors Tuesday that a shooting outside a Texas immigration detention center last year was carried out by members of antifa, opening a closely watched trial that lawyers for the accused say seeks to wrongly punish a group of political demonstrators. Nine people have pleaded not guilty over their alleged involvement in what prosecutors called an attack on the Prairieland Detention Center near Dallas last July, when a police officer was shot in the neck and wounded. Eight of the nine face a charge of providing material support to terrorists, which follows President Donald Trump’s order to designate the decentralized movement known as antifa as a domestic terrorist organization.