In a small courtroom in Fort Worth, Texas, there is this case playing out that is set to tell us a lot about who the federal government holds accountable these days.

And for what?

This case is about what happened in a single night last summer, July 4th.

Some friends and acquaintances had been making plans for the holiday.

They had a group chat going.

They called it Fourth of July party, exclamation point.

Their idea was to bring fireworks out to an ice detention center called Prairieland.

It was supposed to be a protest, maybe also an ad hoc celebration for the people inside.

But the evening went very wrong.

See, the group had brought guns, too.

Medical kits, body armor. Some people allegedly started

spray painting cars with slogans like Ice Pig and Trader. And then a cop showed up. And one of

these protesters shot him.

The cop survived, may have even drawn his weapon first,

but his shooter is on trial right now, and he's not alone.

Nine people are on trial and 16 people total have been charged. Seven have pled guilty.

Ligia Miller is an attorney and YouTuber who's been following the case.

And a lot of it is charges stemming from actions that happened after the protest because the one man who fired the gun then was kind of on the run for a while. Yeah, he evaded arrest for something like 11 days, I think. Right. And then allegedly a lot of the people in the indictment

then aided him. And because they're saying he is an alleged domestic terrorist, that means

that they were providing material support to him.

Leja says that label, domestic terrorist, it's important here.

Prosecutors have called the defendants a North Texas antifa cell. Now they're trying to prove

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