Philadelphia Anti-Capitalist Group Claims Responsibility for Violent Attack Near University Campus

Philadelphia Anti-Capitalist Group Claims Responsibility for Violent Attack Near University Campus
Antifa members in a file photograph. Natalie Behring/AFP/Getty Images
Bill Pan
Bill Pan
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A far-left extremist group has claimed responsibility for a spree of violence that occurred near the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) campus last week, inflicting “extensive damages” to school buildings, businesses, and a police vehicle.

According to the UPenn’s Division of Public Safety, a group of approximately 60 people, all dressed in black and wearing black masks, gathered at 9:30 p.m. on Aug. 25 in a park next to the university campus. The group then proceed to build barricades, smash windows, paint graffiti, and harass passersby before heading back to the park, where they eventually dispersed.
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