Benjamin Song, a long-time antifa agitator, was charged with three counts of attempted murder of federal agents in addition to three counts of discharging a firearm in relation to the Texas ICE attack. 

He was identified as a member of the John Brown Gun Club after he was sued in 2023 by a right-wing group called the New Columbia Movement. 

That group alleged that Song was providing security at a drag event in Fort Worth as a member of the John Brown Gun Club’s Elm Fork Chapter. He was accused of pepper spraying members of the group, but never charged criminally. 

Benjamin Song, right, was charged in a Texas ICE attack. (Left: AP Images; Right: FBI)

Another John Brown Gun Club member, Willem van Spronsen, was killed by authorities in 2019 when he tried to blow up an ICE detention center by igniting a propane tank and throwing Molotov cocktails at the building. 

He left behind a manifesto that said, “I am Antifa,” and was hailed by fellow left-wing agitators as a “martyr” and hero of the movement.