8 people convicted over shooting at a Texas immigration detention center

A federal jury on Friday convicted eight people on terrorism charges over a shooting at a Texas immigration facility that federal prosecutors tied to antifa, the far-left movement that has become a target of the Trump administration.

DALLAS — A federal jury on Friday convicted eight people on terrorism charges over a shooting at a Texas immigration facility that federal prosecutors tied to antifa, the far-left movement that has become a target of the Trump administration.

Jurors also handed down guilty verdicts on other charges, including attempted murder against one member of the group who prosecutors say opened fire last summer outside the Prairieland Detention Center near Dallas, wounding a police officer who was shot in the neck.

Sentencing was set for June.

The trial was closely watched beyond the Fort Worth, Texas, courtroom as some legal experts and critics called it a test of the lengths the government can go to punish protesters.

Lawyers for the accused say they were not antifa members and had instead organized a “noise demonstration” to show support for immigrants who had been detained as part of the Trump administration’s mass deportation operations.