'Boogaloo Boi' charged in fire of Minneapolis police precinct during George Floyd protest

[RandySF]

A rightwing extremist boasted of driving from Texas to Minneapolis to help set fire to a police precinct during the George Floyd protests, federal prosecutors said.

US attorney Erica MacDonald said on Friday that she had charged Ivan Harrison Hunter, a 26-year-old Texas resident, with traveling across state lines to participate in a riot. The charges are the latest example of far-right extremists attempting to use violence to escalate national protests against police brutality into an uprising against the government, and even full civil war.

The case also reveals the extent of the coordination between violent members of the nascent far-right “Boogaloo Bois” movement operating in different cities across the country.

According to the criminal complaint against Hunter, on 26 May, as intense protests broke out in Minneapolis over the killing of George Floyd by a city police officer, a “Boogaloo Boi” based in Minnesota posted a public Facebook message: “I need a headcount.”

Hunter, a resident of Boerne, Texas, which is roughly 1,200 miles away, responded: “72 hours out.”

Another “Boogaloo Boi”, based in North Carolina, posted a public message the same day: “Lock and load boys,” he wrote, adding, “the national network is going off.”




https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/23/texas-boogaloo-boi-minneapolis-police-building-george-floyd

[Coventina]

1. I'm shocked! SHOCKED!

That it wasn't Antifa!

[Wounded Bear]

3. As we've suspected all along...RW activists infiltrated the protests and sparked violence...nt

[blm]

4. I post these facts every time a Republican claims blm

and antifa protests were more violent.

Fact is that the worst of the violence and destruction during those protests was committed by anti-government RightWing extremists who were using the cover of the protests to target and even murder law enforcement, knowing public would assume it was blm. They wanted to trigger the race war they’ve been preparing for the last few decades.

[sop]

6. Predictable Republican projection.

It's why they manufactured the accusation Antifa and BLM attacked the Capitol.

[applegrove]

5. Quelle surprise!

[TheRealNorth]

7. But Republicans would have you believe that Lady Boys are a bigger threat to America....

Then Boogaloo and Proud Boys.

[dchill]

8. So, he must have quit ANTIFA right after he started the fire!

Right?

[LeftInTX]

9. The article and arrest is from 2020

[IronLionZion]

10. 2 year old article is shared on DU for what purpose?

Because when it happened, we still had DUers claiming Boogaloo Bois didn't exist.

[Blue Owl]

11. K&R

[calimary]

12. Well you can just boogaloo your lousy destructive self straight to JAIL, dude.

Buh-BYE!!!

[relayerbob]

13. Good!