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Atlanta Police Release Identities of 23 Suspects in Antifa Attack on Cop Training Center – Only Two Are from Georgia

Atlanta police have named 23 of the 35 Antifa extremists who they say assaulted their police officers and torched the future cop training facility which has been nicknamed “Cop City.”

Only two are from Georgia. As first reported by Fox 5 Atlanta, all have been charged with domestic terrorism.

Here are the suspects’ identities. Fox News first obtained them:

  • France: Dimitri LeNy
  • Canada: Fredrique Robert-Paul
  • Georgia:Thomas Jurgens and Jack Beaman
  • Massachusetts: Ayla King, Alexis Paplai and Timothy Bilodeau
  • Arizona: Samuel Ward and Max Biederman.
  • New York: Mattia Luini and Priscilla Grim
  • Wisconsin: Kayley Meissner and Grace Martin
  • Kamryn Pipes is from Louisiana
  • Maggie Gates is from Indiana
  • Ehret Nottingham is from Colorado
  • Victor Puertas is from Utah
  • Amin Chaoui is from Virginia
  • James Marsicano is from North Carolina
  • Emma Bogush is from Connecticut
  • Luke Harper is from Florida
  • Colin Dorsey is from Maine
  • Zoe Larmey is from Tennessee

The only two suspected perpetrators from Georgia are Thomas Jurgens and Jack Beaman.

A suspected Antifa activist charged with domestic terrorism over riots in Atlanta is an attorney for the hard-left Southern Poverty Law Center.

Thomas Webb Jurgens, 28, is one of 23 people who were detained after violent clashes between police and protesters at the construction site for the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center. Others include serial protesters, a former school teacher and a young dancer who recently turned to activism.

Fireworks and Molotov cocktails were used to attack police and destroy construction equipment and machinery during the riots on Sunday. Activists have spent months staging demonstrations against the police facility which they dub ‘Cop City’.

Jurgens joined the SPLC in September 2021 and worked on its Economic Justice Project, according to his LinkedIn page. He has also worked as an assistant public defender and a legal intern at a US attorney’s office in Florida. The Florida Bar’s website lists him as a current SPLC lawyer.

The LinkedIn page includes a professional photo of Jurgens with neatly-styled hair and a suit and tie. The picture is a marked contrast to the mugshot released by police on Monday that shows him sullen-faced in a green sweater with long, unkempt hair and stubble.

Jurgens’ social media profile also details an impressive academic career, which included a term at the prestigious University of Oxford, in England, and a Juris Doctor from the University of Georgia School of Law.

The Southern Poverty Law Center is a social justice organization which describes its goals as to ‘dismantle white supremacy, strengthen intersectional movements, and advance the human rights of all people’. Republican activists claim the SPLC is a ‘radical’ left-wing and ‘anti-Christian’ organization.

Jurgens and 22 other activists from as far away as France and Canada have now been charged with domestic terrorism after the riots at the police training facility.

Another, Timothy Bilodeau is a former teacher at Acera, the Massachusetts Schools Science, Creativity and Leadership. His LinkedIn profile lists him as a teacher of engineering, although a spokesman for the school told DailyMail.com he left his position before the beginning of the 2022-2023 school year.

In a gushing biography for himself, Bilodeau, 25, writes: ‘I’m not just a musician or an engineer. I’m an aficionado of learning in all forms.’

‘Leveraging the power of humor, joy, curiosity, and collaboration, I seek to build self-confidence so students can more effectively express themselves and solve problems in any area of their lives,’ he writes.

Bilodeau also has a degree in mechanical engineering from Northeastern University.

Ehret Nottingham, 22, is a serial activist who has also taken a central role in pro-abortion and fair wage rallies.

In a interview in June 2020, while studying political science at Colorado State University, Nottingham said he ‘became an activist’ in 2018.

He described himself as a climate activist who was also involved in Black Lives Matter protests. He said he has a ‘whole lot of privilege and a whole lot of ability to affect the world’.

‘The role in my future that I hope to achieve is to be an advocate and the platform I have to make change,’ said Nottingham. He said he met ‘most of my activist friends’ through Instagram.

James Mariscano, 29, whose surname also appears as Mariscana in police statements, is a known Antifa activist who has been arrested previously.

In June 2020, Mariscano was arrested in Charlotte, North Carolina, for assaulting a law enforcement officer. He was also charged with disorderly conduct and resisting a public offer after initially fleeing arrest.

Emma Bogush, who also uses the name Bo, was a keen dancer who performed regularly before she turned to activism.

The 24-year-old’s Facebook page includes many photos with her dance teams, and lists vacations to London and Stonehenge in the UK.

Atlanta Police Department released details of the suspects on Monday. The individuals are mostly men and women from outside of Georgia , indicating a concerted effort to bring in outside help for the action.

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