A former United States Marine reservist and seven others were sentenced to decades in prison over a shooting last year that wounded a police officer during a demonstration at a Texas immigration detention centre.On Tuesday, Benjamin Song, the Marine reservist, was sentenced to 100 years in prison, the maximum punishment, for opening fire during a July 4 demonstration outside the Prairieland Detention Center near Dallas.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listSeven other defendants received prison terms ranging from 30 to 70 years.Prosecutors called the crime an act of “terrorism” and said the eight were linked to the leftist activist group antifa, a loosely knit anti-fascist movement that President Donald Trump designated a “domestic terrorist organisation”.The defence, meanwhile, denied any antifa ties. Family members expressed shock and anger over the stiff sentences.“I am livid,” said Lydia Koza, whose wife, Autumn Hill, was sentenced to 50 years in prison. “The government wants to take her entire life away because she attended a protest. Nobody died.”US District Judge Reed O’Connor, one of two judges overseeing the proceedings, said what happened was not a protest but “an assault on democracy”. All but one of the eight defendants sentenced on Tuesday were convicted on terror …
