Landmark Texas Antifa Case Heads to Jury

Defense attorneys who rested without calling a witness say the federal government didn’t prove its case.
Landmark Texas Antifa Case Heads to Jury
The Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas, on Sept. 15, 2016. Louis DeLuca/The Dallas Morning News via AP
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The defense and prosecution in a Texas Antifa trial offered conflicting closing arguments about a protest last year outside a Texas immigration facility that left one officer wounded in the neck.

In the trial, now in its third week at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas in Fort Worth, the government alleges that an Antifa cell launched a coordinated attack against the Prairieland Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility housing illegal immigrants outside Dallas on July 4, 2025, leaving one officer shot in the neck.

Darlene McCormick Sanchez
Darlene McCormick Sanchez
Senior Reporter
Darlene McCormick Sanchez is an Epoch Times reporter who covers border security and immigration, election integrity, and Texas politics. Ms. McCormick Sanchez has 20 years of experience in media and has worked for outlets including Waco Tribune Herald, Tampa Tribune, and Waterbury Republican-American. She was a finalist for a Pulitzer prize for investigative reporting.