FBI 'has no intelligence' indicating Antifa was linked to weekend violence in the George Floyd protests, despite Trump and Republicans' claims

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• The FBI has "no intelligence" indicating that "Antifa" was involved in violence over the weekend related to protests following the death of George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man who died after a white police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes, The Nation reported.
• President Donald Trump, Attorney General William Barr, and several Republican lawmakers have blamed Antifa for violence linked to protests that took place on Sunday.
• But according to The Nation, which cited an internal FBI situation report, the bureau's Washington, DC, field office "has no intelligence indicating Antifa involvement/presence" in the violence that took place that day.
• However, the FBI and other government agencies warn that far-right white supremacist groups will use the protests to incite violence and attack federal agents.
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The FBI has collected no intelligence indicating that "Antifa" was involved in violence over the weekend related to protests over the death of George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man who died on May 25 after a white police officer in Minneapolis knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes, The Nation reported.

President Donald Trump and Attorney General William Barr both blamed Antifa — a loosely organized left-wing group consisting of anti-fascism activists — for violence linked to a series of protests that took place on Sunday, May 31.

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