{"id":11387,"date":"2018-12-17T11:49:19","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T15:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=11387"},"modified":"2018-12-17T11:49:19","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T15:49:19","slug":"marines-testify-about-the-antifa-mob-they-say-attacked-them-in-philly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/marines-testify-about-the-antifa-mob-they-say-attacked-them-in-philly\/","title":{"rendered":"Marines Testify About the \u201cAntifa Mob\u201d They Say Attacked Them in Philly"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/marines-attacked-antifa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11388\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/marines-attacked-antifa-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/marines-attacked-antifa-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/marines-attacked-antifa-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/marines-attacked-antifa.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe suspects hide their faces from the cameras in the courthouse on Thursday.<\/h6>\n<h6><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/marines-assaulted-philadelphia-antifa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11389\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/marines-assaulted-philadelphia-antifa-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/marines-assaulted-philadelphia-antifa-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/marines-assaulted-philadelphia-antifa-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/marines-assaulted-philadelphia-antifa.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSuspects Thomas Massey (left) and Tom Keenan (right) in their Philadelphia Police Department mugshots.<\/h6>\n<h2><strong> \u201cI could have died that day,\u201d one of the marines told the court on Thursday morning.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3><strong>Philadelphia Magazine<\/strong><br \/>\nBy Victor Fiorillo<br \/>\n12\/13\/2018<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"pw-hidden-cp\">\n<p><em>Nearly one month after we told you that two U.S. Marines Corps reservists said they were attacked in Old City on November 17th near the controversial \u201cWe the People\u201d rally, the two suspects and their accusers appeared in a Philadelphia courtroom on Thursday morning.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The marines, <strong>Alejandro Godinez<\/strong> and <strong>Luis Torres,<\/strong> both testified in uniform about the incident, while three marine officers, including their commanding officer, stood in the gallery. The suspects, <strong>Thomas Massey<\/strong> and <strong>Tom Keenan,<\/strong> who have been linked to antifa on websites and social media, sat together with their individual lawyers and did not speak.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The marines, who are not from the Philadelphia area, said that they had traveled to the city with other members of their helicopter unit, headquartered at Fort Dix, to attend a Marine event that night at a local hotel ballroom. They said that they had no knowledge of the nearby rally, which drew members of the alt-right as well as a large number of counter-protestors, Keenan and Massey reportedly among them.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8230; both marines testified that Keenan, Massey, and approximately ten other people \u2014 men and women, some masked and some unmasked \u2014 then began attacking them with mace, punches, and kicks, and calling them \u201cnazis\u201d and \u201cwhite supremacists.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p><strong>View the complete article including images at:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phillymag.com\/news\/2018\/12\/13\/marines-assaulted-philadelphia-keenan-massey-antifa\/\">https:\/\/www.phillymag.com\/news\/2018\/12\/13\/marines-assaulted-philadelphia-keenan-massey-antifa\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The suspects hide their faces from the cameras in the courthouse on Thursday. Suspects Thomas Massey (left) and Tom Keenan (right) in their Philadelphia Police Department mugshots. \u201cI could have died that day,\u201d one of the marines told the court &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/marines-testify-about-the-antifa-mob-they-say-attacked-them-in-philly\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11390,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11387\/revisions\/11390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}