A petition calling on US President Donald Trump’s administration to formally classify the anti-fascist (Antifa) movement in the country as a terrorist organization has been launched on the White House website.
As of Saturday, the petition, which began on Thursday, had collected more than 13,000 on-line signatures. It must reach the benchmark of 100,000 signatures within 30 days to compel the White House to review and potentially act on the initiative.
A similar petition was also launched in January to classify the Black Lives Matter movement as a terrorist organization but it failed to succeed since it only garnered less than 1,000 signature in a month.
The petition argued that the anti-fascists, referred to leftist or anti-racist activists in the US, should be recognized as terrorists because of their “violent actions in multiple cities and their influence in the killings of multiple police officers throughout the United States.”
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