; Whereas, on August 27, 2017, independent journalist Dave Minsky was hit, kicked, and beaten with a pipe by masked Antifa members while covering a protest in Berkeley, California; Whereas, on August 27, 2017, an Antifa member started an altercation with Leigh Martinez, a freelance reporter for KTVU, and knocked her phone out of her hand by hitting her wrist while she was filming in Berkeley; Whereas, on August 27, 2017, freelance reporter Thom Jensen had his phone stolen and dunked in water while covering an Antifa demonstration in Berkeley; Whereas, on August 27, 2017, reporter Mike Kessler was covering the Antifa demonstration in Berkeley when Antifa members stole his phone and destroyed his camera; Whereas, on August 27, 2017, in Berkeley, an Antifa member ordered Nathan Hope, a freelance production assistant, to stop filming and knocked his camera out of his hand; Whereas, on December 18, 2018, documents showed that the Federal Bureau of Investigation was probing an Antifa plot to buy guns from a Mexican cartel and stage an armed rebellion at the southern border; Whereas, on May 1, 2019, independent journalist Andy Ngo was sprayed with bear repellent and assaulted during an Antifa protest in Portland, Oregon; Whereas, on July 6, 2019, Antifa members clashed with police while attempting to disrupt a rally in the District of Columbia; Whereas, on June 29, 2019, Andy Ngo was again attacked during an Antifa protest he was covering in Portland, slammed on the back of the head, punched, and kicked by about a dozen masked Antifa members, and given a brain hemorrhage; Whereas, on July 13, 2019, an Antifa member armed with a rifle threw incendiary devices at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Washington State