An Antifa goon who was arrested for ‘domestic terrorism’ lost her brother to a drug overdose in a hotel – and her dad has also railed against police violence.
Serena Hertel, 25, is one of a group of five who were arrested at a violent autonomous zone near Atlanta, with the Georgia Bureau of Investigations dinging explosive devices and gasoline during their raid.
She was pictured screaming as she was arrested on Tuesday, and was carried off by two officers while wearing an orange jacket.
DailyMail.com can reveal that her brother, Hunter Hertel, died in Los Angeles in 2019 aged 27 after consuming a cocktail of drugs – including fentanyl, heroin, cocaine, meth and diazepam.
His death was ruled as an accident, with their father, architect David Hertel, paying tribute to his son for ‘opening his heart to the understanding of lives lost to senseless police violence, ineffectual incarceration and lack of social justice.’
Hertel was also one of the ‘anonymous’ members of the Atlanta Forest Defenders who appeared in an Open Society Foundations-sponsored story about the autonomous zone in The Guardian.
George Soros is the chairman of the OSF, and has given away more than $32billion of his personal fortune to fund the group.
Soros is one of the world’s best-known philanthropists, and is also known for funding many of the woke district attorneys whose policies have been blamed for soaring violent crime across the US.
Hertel attended Pitzer College after growing up in Sun Valley, Idaho, and majored in Environmental Analysis and Mathematics – appearing to become radicalized before she graduated in 2020.
The college in Claremont, California, promotes a ‘green and sustainable’ outlook, with 93 per cent of students living in sustainably built housing – and costs $82,932 a year.
She worked as part of a team researching global health equity in Rio De Janeiro alongside Professor Guillermo Douglass-Jaimes since the spring of 2018.
The domestic terrorists also spent time researching in Salvador, Bahia in 2017, and lists her interests as ‘health and environmental justice, with a focus on prisons and water’.
Hertel was one of five people arrested on Tuesday at the autonomous zone at the site of the future Atlanta Public Safety Training Centre.
Leonard Voiselle, 20, of Macon, Georgia, Nicholas Dean Olson, 25, of Bennington, Nebraska, Francis M. Carroll, 22, of Kennebunkport, Maine and Arieon Robinson, 21, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, were also arrested.
Hertel has been charged with criminal trespass, domestic terrorism, aggravated assault, obstruction, and inciting a riot.
Since June 2021 far-left extremists have traveled to the location to prevent what they call a ‘cop city’.
Law enforcement say they were assaulted with rocks and bottles by militants occupying makeshift treehouses and have been accused of terrorizing nearby residents.
In May, eight militants were arrested after police patrolling the land were assaulted and pelted with rocks and Molotov cocktails.
Left-wing groups used Twitter to fundraise bail for suspects after another six were arrested in August – charged with various crimes from burglary to criminal damage.
Members of the group tried to burn a man to death after he drove into the area, and he was forced to run for his life after they torched it with him still in it.
After their members were arrested the Defend the Atlanta Forest group held a protest outside of Dekalb County Jail – where the five are being held without bail – and let off explosive fireworks.
The Atlanta Jail Support, a project of the Atlanta Solidarity Fund, also issued calls to fundraise bail money for the terror suspects using Twitter.
Convictions of domestic terrorism carry with it sentences of anywhere between five and 35 years in prison.
DeKalb County District Attorney Sherry Boston said in a statement: ‘I strongly believe in the right to peacefully protest for what one believes is right and just. However, I draw the line at violence, destruction of property, and threatening and causing harm to others.’
She added: ‘My office will always stand up to protect the citizens of DeKalb County. The alleged acts of violence at the training facility site put the public in grave danger and will not be tolerated.’
Georgia’s Republican Governor Brian Kemp said: ‘We will not rest when it comes to bringing domestic terrorists to justice, and these arrests should serve as a strong reminder of that.’
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* Article from: dailymail.co.uk