Antifa ‘commander’ with flamethrower burst into tears during arrest, cops say
An Antifa leader known as Commander Red was busted carrying a flamethrower to a Wisconsin Black Lives Matter rally — and “dropped into the fetal position and began crying” when stopped by cops, officials said.
Matthew Banta, 23, is “known to be a violent Antifa member who incites violence in otherwise relatively peaceful protests,” a criminal complaint in his Green Bay arrest record insisted,
according to WBAY.
He was carrying stickers and a flag for the controversial group — the name of which is short for “anti-fascist” — along with “military-grade 5-minute” smoke grenades, fireworks rockets, and a flamethrower,
according to the Green Bay Press-Gazette.
Banta was stopped after being spotted with “a whole bunch of white people with sticks, baseball bats and helmets” heading toward a BLM event in Green Bay, police said in the criminal complaint.
The others fled when a cop blocked them with his squad car, but Banta was stopped and “dropped into the fetal position and began crying,” the police report said. He complained that the officer got on top of him, which police denied, WBAY said.
An Antifa leader known as Commander Red was busted carrying a flamethrower to a Wisconsin Black Lives Matter rally — and “dropped into the fetal position and began crying” when stopped by cop…
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AN ANTIFA leader known as “Commander Red” who was allegedly spotted with a flamethrower at a protest “broke down during his arrest” on Saturday. Matthew Banta, 23, was at a protest in G…
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The criminal complaint says Matthew Banta “is known to be a violent Antifa member who incites violence in otherwise relatively peaceful protests.”
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