The Southern Poverty Law Center defended a staff lawyer charged with domestic terrorism during the violent Antifa-style siege on the planned Atlanta police training center, saying he was serving as a 'legal observer' for the leftist National Lawyers Guild.
on the construction site, where police said black-clad rioters set equipment on fire and hurled rocks, Molotov cocktails, bricks and fireworks at officers.
“An employee at the SPLC was arrested while acting — and identifying — as a legal observer on behalf of the National Lawyers Guild,” said the center in a. “The employee is an experienced legal observer, and their arrest is not evidence of any crime, but of heavy-handed law enforcement intervention against protesters.”
Critics charged SPLC officials with fomenting the same sort of hate they profess to decry with their “hate map,” which lists 733 groups ranging from neo-Nazis and racist outfits to mainstream conservative groups such as the Alliance Defending Freedom and the Family Research Council. J. Christian Adams, a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, criticized the center Tuesday for rationalizing the actions of its legal staffer.
“Shame on @splcenter for making excuses for violence at event with #SPLC presence,” tweeted Mr. Adams, who heads the Public Interest Legal Foundation. “Only excuses. Should SPLC go on their own #hatemap?”
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