Antifa are organized in multiple units. Scouts monitor perimeter of an area & provide live audio/text updates. There are street medics, who are trained to get injured comrades out. And there are those who carry out violence w/weapons & firebombs. They use Signal to communicate.

Antifa are "horizontally" organized, meaning, they don't have figureheads or leaders. It's part of their ideology that there should be no authority or state. Mistake to then assume this means they have no organization. It's a different type of organizing media isn't used to.

And all the other protesters/looters/opportunists? They are just human shields for antifa. When police try to make arrests or disperse the mob, these people are usually injured first.

Footage of those injuries (e.g. women, children, black people) are then massively amplified by sympathetic media. This leads to politicians pressuring police to withdraw or scale back response. Who benefits? Antifa.