Police infuriated three radical anti-cop activists by arresting them and charging them with charity fraud. The Atlanta organizers have been enabling the anarchists protesting the new police and fire training center, colloquially called “Cop City.” They’ve been conducting guerrilla warfare against official infrastructure for months. Along with generally causing mayhem.
Radical activists arrested
Radical activists in the Atlanta area are more than a little upset after what happened on Wednesday, May 31. As announced by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, GBI agents teamed up with the Atlanta Police Department and hauled in “three leaders of the Atlanta Solidarity Fund, which has bailed out protesters and helped them find lawyers.”
That isn’t what they were arrested for. They were charged with money laundering and charity fraud.
As officials relate, state investigators found evidence linking Marlon Scott Kautz, 39, of Atlanta; Savannah D. Patterson, 30, of Savannah; and Adele MacLean, 42, of Atlanta to financial crimes.
Breaking: Three members of the Atlanta Solidarity Fund, the group that funds far-left domestic terrorism suspects in Atlanta, have been arrested following a raid. They’re accused of money laundering & charity fraud. #Antifa https://t.co/2HHAv7lM94
— Andy Ngô 🏳️🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) May 31, 2023
They went to the judge and got some arrest warrants then headed over to what the activists are using for a headquarters. The house is owned by Kautz and MacLean. It’s easy to find because it’s “emblazoned with anti-police graffiti in an otherwise gentrified neighborhood east of downtown Atlanta.”
By Wednesday afternoon, their lawyer, Don Samuel, was giving a statement about the heavy handed treatment the activists are getting from the justice system. He was jumping up and down because “he had not yet seen the arrest warrants and was trying to determine the basis for the charges.” He’ll learn all that in due time.
Meanwhile, he fumes over his latte that “I know what the crimes are that are alleged, but I don’t know exactly what the state’s alleging that these three people did or how they supposedly engaged in charity fraud.” He’ll soon get an opportunity to ask his clients that directly. They were released on $15,000 bond each on Thursday.
Network for Strong Communities
These three specific activists are “the CEO, chief financial officer and secretary of the Network for Strong Communities, which was incorporated in 2020 and runs the Atlanta Solidarity Fund.”
While liberal defenders were screaming about free speech rights, Deputy Attorney General John Fowler was ready for them. He didn’t think they deserved bond, arguing that these three are “flight risks and pose a danger to the community.”
He understands the issue and the liberal point in favor of what they’re doing on the surface. “On its face, it appears to be laudable, it appears to be lawful,” he explains. Only it’s not.
GBI with APD have arrested the people running the Atlanta Solidarity Fund, a Georgia nonprofit, and charged them with money laundering and charity fraud
The group has been heavily involved in financing StopCopCity and other violent #Antifa. https://t.co/j1I6ict2Kv pic.twitter.com/UcK3jn1LvX
— AntifaWatch (@AntifaWatch2) May 31, 2023
The nonprofit may be running “a bail fund and a food fund” but that’s not all they’re up to. His investigators found that the activists “harbor extremist anti-government and anti-establishment views and not all of the money goes to what they say that it goes to.”
Some of the money these anarchist activists are passing around “has been used to fund violent acts against people and property around the city of Atlanta.”
Specifically, the “attack on Georgia’s Department of Public Safety headquarters in July 2020, vandalism at Ebenezer Baptist Church in January 2022, and protests related to the planned training center that turned violent.” So far, “more than 40 people have been charged with domestic terrorism in connection with protests over the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center.” It’s not an insurrection or anything, though.
