Former Marine jailed for bombing abortion clinic
By Max Matza
A former US Marine has been jailed for nine years for firebombing a California Planned Parenthood clinic and plotting other attacks to spark a “race war”.
Chance Brannon, 24, pleaded guilty to the March 2022 attack on the healthcare clinic, which provides abortions in some of its locations.
He also plotted to attack Jewish people and an LGBT pride event taking place at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles.
At the time of his arrest, he was an active duty member of the US Marines.
Prosecutors said Brannon was a neo-Nazi who frequently spoke of “cleansing” the US of “particular ethnic groups”.
In November, Brannon pleaded guilty to conspiracy, destruction of property, possession of an explosive and intentionally damaging a reproductive health services facility.
Kristen Clarke, the assistant attorney general for the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, said the attack “was designed to terrorise patients seeking reproductive healthcare and the people who provide it”.
The explosion damaged the front entrance to the clinic in Costa Mesa, Orange County. No one was injured.
