Alabama Antifa Sympathizer Pleads Guilty to Detonating Bomb Outside State AG’s Office

An Alabama man has pleaded guilty to setting off an explosive device filled with nails outside the state attorney general’s office earlier this year.

Kyle Benjamin Douglas Calvert pleaded guilty to the malicious use of an explosive device in connection with the February 24 incident, which did not cause any injuries.

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Prosecutors described Calvert as “dangerous,” with a self-described “inability to control his own violent, aggressive impulses.

While Calvert detonated the homemade device in the early morning hours of February 24, law enforcement wasn’t called in about a suspicious package near the office until two days later.

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The 26-year-old has expressed sympathies toward the far-left Antifa movement — even posting Antifa stickers near the scene of the explosion — but he claims he has no affiliation with the group, according to the DOJ.

The stickers featured messaging including “anti-fascism is community self-defense,” “abolish private property,” “eat the rich,” “death to fascism,” “arm the homeless,” “f*** work let’s riot!” and “never work.” The first sticker also featured an Antifa logo superimposed over a rainbow flag, while the “eat the rich” sticker had the anarchy symbol in place of the letter “a.”

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