Two examples of violence I witnessed at three separate protests in different states:
1) Antifa members kickng and punching an old man simply for wearing a MAGA hat. The old man was mostly on the ground aft6er the first blow getting klcked.
2) Antifa members throwing explosives (dangerous fireworks) at an old couple walking past.
3) no actual violence but heard one Antifa member talking about starting violence, and using a weapon (knife I didnt see).
The media has very little credibility for me in America sadly. So with anything I form an opinion on I did either first hand research, or rely on more scholarly sources (the latter being rare on anything political).
In the case of ANTIFA I heard two opposite stories from the left and the right, so I went to rallies around the world and tried to observe for myself to decide.
What I saw: At more than half of the protests I went to if Antifa was present then they either engaged in violence or threatened to do so (where I personally witnessed it). Now keep in mind this was more than a year ago at this point.
What I can also say is that the right occasionally used violence to, but it was very rare, in fact I only witnessed that once.
So I can say, from my own experience, that Antifa use violence as a primary means to attack anyone they accused of being a Nazi, which most of the time, they were not, simply conservative.
Jeffrey Phillips FreemanInnovator & Entrepreneur in Machine Learning, Evolutionary Computing & Big Data. Avid SCUBA diver, Open-source developer, HAM radio operator, astrophotographer, and anything nerdy.Born and raised in Philadelphia, PA, USA, currently living in Utrecht, Netherlands.Pronouns: Sir / Mister(Above pronouns are not intended to mock, i will respect any persons pronouns and only wish pronouns to show respect be used with me as well)A proud member of the Penobscot Native American tribe, as well as a Mayflower passenger descendant. I sometimes post about my genealogical history.GPG/PGP Fingerprint: 8B23 64CD 2403 6DCB 7531 01D0 052D DA8E 0506 CBCE