A left-wing activist faces charges of a violent crime. This time, it was an attempted bombing of the attorney general’s office in Alabama.
As the Tampa Free Press first reported, federal prosecutors in Alabama charged Kyle Benjamin Douglas Calvert with two felony counts of malicious damage by explosives and one count of possession of an unregistered destructive device. Calvert was arrested on Wednesday.
“My staff and I are breathing a collective sigh of relief this morning knowing that this individual has been taken off the streets,” Attorney General Steve Marshall said after Calvert was arrested. “Although more information will be provided in the weeks to come, I think it is safe to say that this was not a random act of violence. We are grateful to our federal and local partners for their assistance in this matter and are pleased that the offender faces federal charges carrying significant prison time.”
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Prosecutors allege that Calvert placed a shrapnel-laden, IED-like bomb outside the office of Attorney General Steve Marshall, a Republican, early on Feb. 24. The bomb detonated, but no one was injured.
This week, Calvert was indicted, and prosecutors connected him to the scene through stickers that he left at Marshall’s office, which also appeared in his social media posts.
Calvert’s stickers supported Antifa and called for violence against law enforcement.
The words “Support your local Antifa” were among some of the stickers posted.
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Other stickers he used promoted communism, feminism, abortion, arming the homeless, and abolishing the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement service.
Antifa, short for Anti-Fascist, refers to those who hold what they perceive to be “anti-fascist beliefs” rather than a specific group.
Calvert described himself as “pansexual” and called Republicans “a–holes.”
If convicted, Calvert faces up to 20 years in prison.
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