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April 26, 2017

Seattle: 2 Charged in Shooting of Antifa Protester at Milo Yiannopoulos Speech
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Back in the United States, in Seattle, prosecutors have charged a
married couple with attempted first- and third-degree assault for the
shooting of an antifascist protester at a demonstration against a speech
by white nationalist former Breitbart News editor Milo Yiannopoulos at
the University of Washington in January.

Joshua Dukes, a member of the Industrial Workers of the World, was
critically injured when alleged shooter Elizabeth Hokoana fired a single
shot from a Glock semi-automatic handgun into his stomach. Prosecutors
say Hokoana and her husband, Marc, went to the protest armed, intending
to provoke the antifascist protesters.

Marc messaged a friend on Facebook, writing, "I'm going to the milo
event and if the snowflakes get out off hand I'm going to wade through
their ranks and start cracking skulls." "Snowflake" is a derisive term
used by the far right to refer to leftists and liberals. Joshua Dukes is
still recovering from the shooting and says he's seeking a restorative
justice process-not incarceration-for the alleged shooter.


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