Benjamin Song, a long-standing antifa activist, faces three charges of attempted murder of federal agents and three charges of using a firearm during the Texas ICE incident. 

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. 

This group claimed that Song was acting as security at a drag event in Fort Worth as part of the John Brown Gun Club’s Elm Fork Chapter. He allegedly pepper-sprayed group members, though he was not criminally charged at the time. 

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

Another member of the John Brown Gun Club, Willem van Spronsen, was killed by law enforcement in 2019 when he attempted to destroy an ICE detention center by setting off a propane tank and hurling Molotov cocktails at the facility. 

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.