Yvette Felarca, a leader of the Berkeley-area Antifa group known as By Any Means Necessary (BAMN), got a significant slap on the wrist last week. A judge ordered her to pay $11,100 to cover the attorney’s fees of former Berkeley College Republicans President Troy Worden.
Last September, Felarca filed a temporary restraining order against Worden claiming he had harassed and stalked her. At the end of October, Felarca dropped the temporary order rather than pursue a permanent restraining order. At the time, her attorney claimed that this was because Worden hadn’t continued his behavior. But Worden’s attorney suggested a very different motive for Felarca deciding to drop the case. From a Campus Reform report last October: