SPLC attorney Thomas Jurgens was among those arrested and charged with domestic terrorism in connection with a riot in Atlanta, Georgia.
One of the individuals arrested and charged with domestic terrorism for his role in helping to launch a coordinated and violent attack against Atlanta law enforcement on Sunday purportedly works for the left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).
On Monday, the Atlanta Police Department released the names of 23 individuals taken into custody and charged by the agency, one of whom is a man identified as Thomas Jurgens. According to a now-unavailable LinkedIn profile, which has an account photo matching one of the rioter mugshots released by the department, Jurgens is an Atlanta-based staff attorney for the Southern Poverty Law Center, a radical leftist legal group that regularly smears conservative organizations as “hate groups.” In contrast, despite Antifa committing murders and being regularly responsible for violence across the country, the SPLC has pointedly refused to label it and related left-wing anarchists “hate groups.”
Local reporter Michael Seiden also appeared to indicate Jurgens’ ties to the SPLC, writing in a now-deleted tweet that he had spoken with a “family member who confirmed that his relative, Thomas Jurgens, was arrested and charged w/domestic terrorism … and that Thomas is a staff attorney for @splcenter.”
A screenshot of Seiden’s now-deleted tweet.
According to Fox News, Jurgens and his fellow rioters are “accused of leaving a nearby music festival Sunday evening and heading to the construction site of the Atlanta
