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FBI Raided Texas Activist’s House — Then Offered Her $200,000 to Become Antifa Informant
(theintercept.com)
Cross-posted from "FBI Raided Texas Activist’s House — Then Offered Her $200,000 to Become Antifa Informant" by @thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net in !acab@hexbear.net
cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/62836
In the early morning hours of June 29, federal agents from the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security conducted a raid on home in Midlothian, Texas, in the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area.
The raid, which saw federal agents deploying flash-bang grenades and using armored vehicles, was authorized by a federal search warrant related to an ongoing federal investigation into an alleged bomb plot at a June 14 Ultimate Fighting Championship event at the White House. The Justice Department characterized the case as an assassination plot against high-ranking officials using of explosive drones and sniper rifles.
The search warrant in Midlothian was issued as part of federal agents’ search for evidence of several potential charges, including conspiracy to commit murder, according to documents viewed by The Intercept.
“They are stress-testing the limits of NSPM-7.”
The subject of the raid in Texas claimed that, in the days after the raid, federal agents returned to her home and offered her up to $200,000 to act as an informant for federal law enforcement. The resident, “Doberman,” who asked only to be identified only by her social media handle because of ongoing threats to her safety, has not been indicted on any charges. Doberman also said she was visited by agents from the FBI and Secret Service weeks before the raid.
The raid was part of a sweeping effort by the federal government and far-right media figures to spin up a vast far-left conspiracy casting antifascist activists as well-organized extremists who pose a threat to public safety.
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President Donald Trump has made attacks on antifascist activists a centerpiece of his domestic crackdown on the left, designating antifa a terrorist organization and issuing directives like the National Security Presidential Memorandum-7 to focus resources on going after left-wing activists.
The crackdown recently helped spur centuries’ worth of combined prison sentences for a clutch of left-wing activists who launched a protest at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Prairieland Detention Facility, just a 20-minutes drive from Midlothian.
First Amendment advocates said the Midlothian raid fit into the widespread pattern of aggressive policing tactics being used against the left, including other attempts to flip activists.
“They are stress-testing the limits of NSPM-7, both by trying to cast various groups or voluntary associations that are protected by the First Amendment as being antifa, or as falling within the ambit of this sort of very broad definition of terrorism,” said Moira Meltzer-Cohen, a New York-based attorney who represents defendants in federal cases but is not working on the Midlothian raid. “We see that with this thing in North Texas, we saw that in Prairieland, and we’re seeing that in Minneapolis” — a reference to the recent indictments of 15 anti-ICE activists in Minnesota.
Doberman is a well-known activist in north Texas left-wing circles. She has been filmed armed at protests and is a member of a group known as the Community Liberation Brigade.
In the days before the raid, a Dallas Express op-ed by a local right-wing activist identified Doberman as a leader of the Community Liberation Brigade. The article suggested that Doberman had ties to the Pairieland defendants — a case that saw the government’s first successful prosecution under Trump’s directives against antifa. It’s unclear what role, if any, the Dallas Express op-ed played in the raid.
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Doberman, who told The Intercept she doesn’t have any ties to the Prairieland defendants, said she was questioned about the case during the raid. Authorities also asked Doberman about people named in recent federal indictments surrounding the UFC plot, where the most serious charges included conspiracy to commit murder — the same charge that appeared on the search warrant for Doberman’s home.
Because of the ongoing investigation, the Secret Service directed questions about Doberman’s case to the Justice Department. The Department of Homeland Security referred questions to the FBI. Neither the Justice Department nor the FBI immediately responded to requests for comment.
“Rifles Trained Directly at Me”
Two weeks before the Midlothian raid, federal agents tried to question Doberman about the alleged plot to attack the UFC 250 event, an extravagant mixed martial arts performance hosted by the White House as part of its celebrations of 250 years of American independence.
Two men who identified themselves as federal agents from the FBI and Secret Service arrived at Doberman’s door, according to video footage of the encounter obtained by The Intercept.
In the footage, one of the agents assures Doberman that she is “not in trouble” and asks her if she knows anything about an impending attack. Doberman replies that she doesn’t know anything about any plot. When asked if she plans to travel to Washington, she says she is “broke as fuck.” Shortly after, Doberman declined to answer further questions and instructs the agents to come back with a warrant.
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Two weeks later — just days after the Dallas Express piece published — federal agents arrived during the early morning hours in Bearcat armored vehicles. They broke down Doberman’s door in a “no-knock” raid, a controversial tactic that has led to the deaths of innocent people.
“I was woken up by a loud crack, a loud bang,” Doberman told The Intercept in her first media interview since the raid. “I shot up and looked directly to my door, where I was then briefly blinded by a very fucking bright flash of light. After I got my vision back, I saw three rifles trained directly at me.”
Officers placed Doberman in handcuffs, she said, and led her to a local police cruiser parked nearby. Doberman, who is transgender, was denied the opportunity to put on clothes, even after being detained and handcuffed by agents. She was then forced outside in her underwear.
“I’m a trans woman — so, trans woman in a very red state, in a very red city, in feminine underwear. Not the best look,” she said.
According to a seizure receipt viewed by the The Intercept, Doberman’s cellphone was the only item taken during the raid.
In the days after the raid, another FBI agent, whom Doberman said did not give their name, returned her cellphone.
“We know that you’re struggling financially. We know that the people you hold dear are struggling financially.”
During the exchange, Doberman said, the agent offered her hundreds of thousands of dollars to become a confidential informant.
“He said, ‘Hey, we know that you’re struggling financially. We know that the people you hold dear are struggling financially. We are willing to offer monetary gain if you can give us any information on bad actors,’” she recalled.
“The agent said $100,000 to $200,000, which is a life-changing amount,” Doberman said.
Doberman said she told the agent that she would think about the offer. In an interview with The Intercept, however, she said she had no intention of accepting.
Shortly after the offer was made, Doberman spoke to Xavier de Janon, an attorney with the National Lawyers Guild who confirmed the account to The Intercept. De Janon says that proposals like the one received by Doberman could be indicative of the larger network of resources being poured into federal investigations under Trump’s NSPM-7 directive.
“Getting money in exchange for information isn’t new for this government. It’s actually pretty old. I think what is a bit surprising is the amount,” he said. “These cash payouts are really large and probably reflect the very large budgets that these federal agencies have under Trump.”
De Janon said large financial offers to potential collaborators raise questions about the validity of information provided by informants.
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“Even without cash payments, federal informants and state-level informants, too, are pressured so much to give out information that they start behaving in ways that creates criminal situations and questionable moments that wouldn’t have happened to begin with,” he said.
Informant programs have been riddled with issues and allegations that the government targets and takes advantage of vulnerable people, and alleged criminal plots are frequently conceived and proposed by the informants themselves.
For her part, Doberman was rattled by the raid. Though she was not accused of any crimes, the violent raid left her in a persistent state of anxiety. “I’ve been working on my PTSD for years,” she said. “It’s gotten so much worse. And every night now, constant nightmares.”
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This time using my new condition and activation chips to keep things organized. With a brand new player to both maleghast and wargames, it took less than 1.5 hours for a playthrough which is perfect. I'm expecting with experienced players a round would take like 1 hour.
Btw, I have a question: According to the rules, Strength tokens are removed after you do damage. However strength tokens aren't applied to grazing damage. Do you still remove them after you do grazing damage? What if the grazing is blocked by armor? I assume not to both questions.
I'm inclined to agree. Roguelikes shouldn't have runtimes of days. Then again, there's people who're into that shit as can be seen by the amount of people clearing nethack constantly, so it's good that it's an option.
Right. I like playing all roguelites in permadeath and have the death be part of the lesson, but this game just felt frustrating. I realized very soon that you can barely play the game unless you research how a valid beginner strat is.
This is the kind of stuff that made me bounce off the game as well. I'm OK to discover things but if I'm expected to read a wiki to play, it's too much for me
A lot of the time, I start work on a project just to get it out of my brain. My brain starts hyperfocusing on the next "cool idea" and it stops me sleeping and concentrating on other things. So what I do is I start a new project folder and write down my thoughts on the project until I run out of ideas. Then my brain is "satisfied" with "work" and promptly loses interest. I have learned to not feel guilt about these. It's just a thing I need to do for my mental health, like I have to sometimes clear out my ear wax.
I'm pretty sure dms are not sent to all instances
What do you want to bet that we'll see a lot of crowds over the weekend, and then someone will find out they were paid to be there?
I should have named this sub something else. Stable Diffusion models are so dead rn :D
Posting homophobic shite and got banned? Ydi
Deadsouls vs Gargamox (I was garg).
Opponent was trying to wall me away, but I didn't remember one can just destroy walls :D We did a lot of mistakes for our first game, but it was nevertheless fun!
The other day I posted my unit poker chips but I wasn't happy that the Tyrants were at the same size, so I went back to the drawing board and used my tile technique to create 2x2 tyrant tiles. To do that, I needed a border around them to know where to cut. However I liked the way they turned out with the border so much, I decided to redo all my poker chips to have the same border as well. The rest of the creation process stayed identical as the other post (other than needing to remove the previous label which was a PITA)
And with this, I have almost all components done so here's a Proof-of-concept photo
That's how most things work. Most effort is done by a few people
My project to make Maleghast easily playable on the tabletop continues. For Unit chips I decided to go with poker chips instead of 3D printing my own miniatures.
I went with chips because it allows me to display unit information for the opponent directly on the table, rather than having to remember everything or refer to the unit cards all the time. For this purpose, I used G.I.M.P. to add the basic unit information directly on each unit image. Now it becomes very easy when you're deciding what to target to easily view all most relevant information.
As a sidebonus to that, the other side of each unit has a corpse image, so when a unit dies, all I have to do is flip it upside down, and it becomes a corpse on the battlefield. And if I need more corpses, all I need to do is use some of the unused unit chips.
For the poker chip creation, I used the process described here. For reference, these are the supplies I bought from German Amazon given that this guide was built for the USA market.
- Poker Chips: These chips are very affordable and have satisfying weight. You need to remove their internal label to allow proper adhesion of the unit labels, but that's easily done with an x-acto knife.
- Hole Puncher: The poker chips have a 2.9cm diameter internal space so this one works best, but I've found you're better off printing the units at 2.8cm to avoid cutting off some edge art.
- Tweezers: To pick up unit labels without getting fingers sticky.
- Glue Spray: This is the one suggested by the original guide. Loos like it works well enough as I can variate the spray strength as as to not send the card pieces flying.
For the unit printing, I created a custom python script which takes all the images in a directory, resizes them and places them in A4 PDFs, which I can then send to my printer. If anyone is interested I can share.
For now I prepared only one of each unit of the 6 core factions as I run out of chips. Now that I know it's working, I ordered some more so I can prepare the 3 games-for-freaks factions plus the mercenaries, as well as prepare extra chips for each unit, so that people can mix their own warband format (instead of taking one of each).
PS: Yes I know the Tyrants are the same size. I haven't yet decided how to handle this. I'm going to see if I can find larger poker chips. Or maybe I'll 3D print just the tyrants.
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