opened \u2060fire on law enforcement officers<\/a> at \u200bImmigration and Customs Enforcement’s Prairieland \u2060Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas, about 25 miles south of \u200cFort Worth. A police \u200cofficer was wounded.<\/p>\nBenjamin Song, who was convicted of attempted murder \u2060and who prosecutors said was the operation’s \u2060organizer, got the longest sentence of 100 years, according to court filings.<\/p>\n
In hearings at U.S. District Court in Fort Worth, two judges announced sentences of 30 to 70 years for seven other defendants, most of whom were convicted in March on charges including rioting \u200cand supporting terrorism.<\/p>\n
Defense attorneys said the defendants \u200bhad planned a peaceful protest in support of people detained at the immigration facility and denied the group was connected to antifa, a decentralized anti-fascist movement that President Donald Trump designated as a domestic terrorist organization last year.<\/p>\n
Song’s lawyer, Philip Hayes, was quoted by media as saying Song intends to appeal.<\/p>\n
Hayes said those convicted were not “a bunch \u200bof terrorists. This is a bunch of kids and young adults who \u200creally have a \u200creally big \u2060heart and really wanted their voice to be heard.”<\/p>\n
Aside from Song, those sentenced were identified as Autumn Hill, Zachary Evetts, Savanna Batten, Meagan Morris, Maricela Rueda, Elizabeth Soto and Daniel Rolando Sanchez-Estrada.<\/p>\n
One other person, Ines Soto, \u200cis due to be \u200bsentenced in July.<\/p>\n
Lawyers for the defendants and \u200cthe U.S. Justice Department \u2060did not \u200bimmediately respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2014 Eight people were each sentenced to 30 to 100 \u200byears in prison on Tuesday in connection…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2183,2182,294,2185,4104,2184,48,66,223,287,2187,349,154,2186,27,29,28,272,2188,172],"class_list":["post-347553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-cars","tag-classifieds","tag-crime","tag-homes","tag-international","tag-jobs","tag-law","tag-local","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-radio","tag-salt-lake","tag-sports","tag-television","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-traffic","tag-utah","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}