An Antifa leader known as Commander Red was busted carrying a flamethrower to a Wisconsin Black Lives Matter rally — and “dropped into the fetal position and began crying” when stopped by cops, officials said.


Matthew Banta, 23, is “known to be a violent Antifa member who incites violence in otherwise relatively peaceful protests,” a criminal complaint in his Green Bay arrest record insisted, according to WBAY.

He was carrying stickers and a flag for the controversial group — the name of which is short for “anti-fascist” — along with “military-grade 5-minute” smoke grenades, fireworks rockets, and a flamethrower, according to the Green Bay Press-Gazette.

Banta was stopped after being spotted with “a whole bunch of white people with sticks, baseball bats and helmets” heading toward a BLM event in Green Bay, police said in the criminal complaint.

The others fled when a cop blocked them with his squad car, but Banta was stopped and “dropped into the fetal position and began crying,” the police report said. He complained that the officer got on top of him, which police denied, WBAY said.

“It’s worrisome when people associated with Antifa come here to Green Bay from out of town … for the purposes of committing violent acts,” Green Bay Police Chief Andrew Smith told the station.

At the time of Saturday’s arrest, Banta was out on a $10,000 cash bond after being accused of pointing a loaded gun at a police officer as well as biting and kicking a cop at a protest earlier this month, the report said.

Film at 11... 🤐

I blame Obama

there's no crying in rioting... 🤐

Couple of concerns....

Seems that with him having a flamethrower there was at least a brief moment before he dropped to his knees and cried where the police could have got off a clean shot.

I find it funny that the rest of the group all fled. Some friends they turned out to be.

Why did they stop him and not the rittenhouse kid with a rifle?

well, his buddies ditched him when the cops showed up.
That's gotta hurt.


for #3

Because he was black! That’s why they stopped him.

I'm pretty sure he was white.

DO NOT ruin my narrative.

Yeah...if there was an encyclopedia entry for "typical white dip$hit" this kid's picture would be there. about as white as they come....kid's even a ginger. Gingers, of course, have no souls.

he prolly got beat-up alot when he was a kid.... 😟

Because that always worked with his parents.

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Ya think?

Hmmmm Victor, maybe because he was OUT ON BOND AND A TERM OF THAT WAS NO WEAPONS.......

#smartestdumbassoncbid

why did drafter beat up his parents?

Possession of a flame thrower, killing 2 people. Which is worse? Boy that is so hard to figure out.

Self defense does not = Murder hommie

I did not say murder. My question is valid, which is worse. Seems obvious and I am laying no blame.

ya, they shoulda waited until he burned a building full of peoples up... 😟

I’m kinda thinking the flamethrower was more like a propane canister and torch attachment. They still could have shot him though before he dropped it.