On Wednesday’s PBS News Hour, co-host Amna Nawaz provided an overheated take on the surprisingly tough sentences given to “anti-ICE protesters” in Texas in the wake of an attempted assassination of a police officer outside a migrant facility by a North Texas Antifa cell. While the evening news shows have ignored the sentencing, PBS did take notice, only to ridiculously condemn the sentences for terrorism as the “latest crackdown on dissent.” Co-host Amna Nawaz: Still to come on the News Hour….anti-ICE protesters are sentenced to decades in prison in the latest crackdown on dissent. The definition of “dissent” does not yet include the attempted assassination of a local police officer, the crime Benjamin Song was convicted of. Song told fellow cell members to “get the rifles” before firing on the officers, shooting one in the neck. Besides the false implication that the defendants were sentenced merely for belonging to Antifa, PBS made a seemingly inevitable comparison to January 6 rioters and Trump’s later mass pardon. Nawaz: In two federal courts yesterday, a group of protesters received unusually long sentences after the Justice Department accused them of being members of the far-left movement Antifa. The sentences range from 30 to 100 years in prison, longer than the harshest sentence handed down to any of the convicted rioters in the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol in 2021. All of those people have since received pardons or commutations from President Trump…. Justice correspondent Ali Rogin relayed more of the standard media distraction that actually, Antifa doesn’t exist (but it’s still cool). PBS's Ali Rogin on sentencing for armed Antifa outside migrant center: Trump "labels Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization....[yet] Antifa is a decentralized movement, not a single organization...there is no federal charge of domestic terrorism under existing U.S. law." pic.twitter.com/6JZ29qn0ds — Clay Waters