Caleb Freestone was sentenced to one year and a day in prison, while Amber Smith-Stewart and Annarella Rivera were each sentenced to 30 days in prison and 60 days in home detention.
According to the Justice Department, Caleb Freestone, together with co-defendants Amber Smith-Stewart and Annarella Rivera, targeted reproductive health facilities in Florida that provided and counseled alternatives to abortion and vandalized the facilities with threatening messages.
Smith-Stewart and Rivera were each sentenced to 30 days in prison and 60 days in home detention. The defendants previously pleaded guilty on June 14 to a civil rights conspiracy.
The Center Square reported that the radicals were members of the violent anarchist groups Antifa and Jane’s Revenge.
According to court documents, the defendants admitted they participated in the attack at night, while wearing masks and dark clothing to hide their identities. They spray painted the facilities with threatening messages, including “If abortions aren’t safe than niether [sic] are you,” “YOUR TIME IS UP!!,” “WE’RE COMING for U” and “We are everywhere.”
According to National Review, Smith-Stewart’s Facebook page cover photo is an Antifa flag, while the profile picture features an Antifa sticker that said, “Fight all governments there’s no authority but yourself.” Another sticker read, “make racists afraid again,” while a third stated, “F*ck the cops.”
Smith-Stewart previously posted a picture of a burning American flag and wrote, “The united states is a white mans land. They have made that very clear, they target our people, kill and incarcerate our black men and women. Enough is enough. Its more important then ever to get organized and take direct action. Muerte a América.”
One month later, Smith-Stewart posted, “Let me make this abundantly clear for the people in the back. i am an ABOLITIONIST. I do NOT believe in reform,” seemingly referring to abolishing the police.
US Attorney Roger Handberg for the Middle District of Florida said, “These defendants conspired to threaten and intimidate providers offering reproductive health care. Federal law protects these providers and those who seek their services. My office will continue its work to protect access to reproductive health care and federally prosecute those interfering with that right.”
Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division said, “These defendants admitted that they conspired to paint threatening messages on crisis pregnancy centers, based on the defendants’ objection to the services those centers offered. Violence and threats of violence have no place in our national discourse on reproductive health. The Justice Department is committed to protecting the right to access reproductive health care and prosecuting anyone who interferes with that right.”
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