Oakland boogaloo shootings: 41-year sentence for Ex-Air Force sergeant who killed guard

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

41-year sentence for Ex-Air Force sergeant who killed guard

June 3, 2022

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A former U.S. Air Force staff sergeant and alleged member of the “boogaloo” extremist movement was sentenced to 41 years in prison Friday for the fatal shooting of a federal security officer in the San Francisco Bay Area amid large 2020 protests against police brutality.

Steven Carrillo, 33, had pleaded guilty earlier this year to a federal murder charge in the killing of David Patrick Underwood and to the attempted murder of Underwood’s colleague after federal prosecutors agreed not to seek the death penalty.

The men were shot on May 29, 2020, while they stood in front of a federal building in Oakland as hundreds marched on the streets.

In February, Carrillo admitted to posting messages on Facebook a day before the shooting asking anyone if they were “down to boog” and saying he was ready to act and not just talk. He also admitted firing 19 rounds from a homemade AR-15 rifle from the back of a white van being driven by a man he connected with online.

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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/us-air-force-san-francisco-oakland-police-government-and-politics-54ee0fa4316354d893b691c5f8d44023


FILE - This June 7, 2020 file photo provided by the Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office, shows Steven Carrillo. The former U.S. Air Force staff sergeant and alleged member of the "boogaloo" extremist movement was sentenced to 41 years in prison Friday, June, 3, 2022 for the fatal shooting of a federal security officer in the San Francisco Bay Area amid large 2020 protests against police brutality. (Santa Cruz Sheriff's Office via AP, File)

[NCLefty]

1. Getting your street cred but being banned from the streets forever... priceless.

[RussellCattle]

2. How would you like to wake up every morning for 41 years and say "Boy, am I a dumb fuck".

[exboyfil]

3. Why 41 years and not life

When will he be eligible for parole? I got to think federal employees are not happy with this result. He should never be free again.

[CurtEastPoint]

7. Exactly. Life for this POS

[Baitball Blogger]

4. And in this case, the military taught him how to handle a weapon.

So what was the plan? Kill police and blame it on the BLM?

[hlthe2b]

5. I'd like to know what his military record was like--was he honorably discharged?

It is terrifying to think of how may extremists are in the military--AND in police/sheriff's departments

[Baitball Blogger]

6. Yes. I don't know when this country started on a course correction,

But this has been the engine that moves everything else. For those of us who live in red leaning communities it is very apparent. Conservatives that are staunchly embedded in the status quo work every angle to ram their agenda on the local level. We have ex-military officers who tell us that no one questioned their word in the military, implying that we should do the same. And then they take advantage of the fraud they commit when they withhold critical information.

When they have this much control over a civilian population it’s no surprise that the most racist among them get emboldened and drive the dialogue.

[dchill]

8. The "win stupid prizes" phase.

[gratuitous]

9. "Extremist movement," AP? Why so shy?

They're domestic terrorists. They're racist white nationalists. They're people who should be shunned by every American who loves this country.

[crickets]

10. +1