'Kill Feds, Kill Police': FBI Nabs Boogaloo Boi With Grenade Launcher

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A 29-year-old member of the Boogaloo Bois was arrested in Ohio for threatening to kill government officials. Police say he had homemade machine guns and had stockpiled silencers and bomb-making materials, and had a rifle-mounted grenade launcher.

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‘Kill Feds, Kill Police’: FBI Nabs Boogaloo Boi With Grenade Launcher
A criminal complaint alleges Aron McKillips stockpiled weapons while fantasizing online about unleashing a bloody civil war.

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The suspect told informants about his plans to blow up the IRS, destroy Facebook’s HQ, detonate a pipe bomb at a child support office due to an argument over processing fees, and carry out a copycat attack modeled on the 2017 mass shooting at a Las Vegas country music concert.
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An anti-government extremist in Ohio built homemade machine guns, stockpiled silencers and bomb-making materials, and acquired a rifle-mounted grenade launcher—which he later said he received in a trade along with some “primo cocaine”—as part of a scheme to kill as many government officials as possible before police killed him, according to a criminal complaint obtained first by The Daily Beast.

Sandusky resident Aron McKillips, 29, was arrested Tuesday by members of a task force from the FBI’s Cleveland Division. He is a “well-known member” of the Boogaloo Bois, a loosely affiliated militia group seeking to overthrow the government by touching off a second Civil War, states the complaint, which was unsealed Tuesday in Toledo federal court. McKillips is charged with unlawful possession of a machine gun and interstate communication of threats.

Investigators say McKillips spoke often to other members, some of whom turned out to be federal informants, about his violent plans—including his desire to “blow up the IRS,” destroy Facebook headquarters, and carry out a copycat attack modeled on the deadly 2017 mass shooting at a Las Vegas country music concert. More prosaically, McKillips talked about detonating a pipe bomb at a local child support office last year over processing fees, the complaint states.

“This shit started out being a fucking way to kill feds,” McKillips allegedly said in an audio recording posted to a Signal chat room last year in which he talked about “burning down federal buildings and shooting federal agents.”

“That’s what we were about,” McKillips continued, according to the complaint. “The main fucking beginning was kill feds, kill police, kill government officials. Kill them. Murder them. Unalive them. Delete them. Get rid of them. And then it became ‘we’re gonna do this peaceful.’ Fuck that.”

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[lindysalsagal]

1. Luckily, they arrested him in time.

[Bluethroughu]

13. These are the people in the Republican party mingle with...

Look at trump rallies.
Watch the interviews with people attending those.
They are incited by these Republicans and their lies.

[Chainfire]

2. One more of those good people on both sides....

For every idiot that gets caught, how many more are out there?

The machine gun charge alone should get him ten years.

[global1]

3. He's Not Alone....

People like this are all around us. I only hope that we can stop and prevent such people from unleashing any of their insane scheme's before others get hurt or killed.

I guess we should consider ourselves lucky that this guy was stopped.

[NBachers]

4. Thanks, Donnie

[IronLionZion]

5. One important word that's missing here is "terrorist"

[Raster]

6. Silly you... He's a white guy. They don't get called "terrorist."

If they had to call one white guy with an arsenal out to destroy property and murder as many as possible a "terrorist", then they'd have to do it to all the white, guys with arsenals that are out to destroy property and murder many people.

And we just can't have that now, can we.

However, if this was a black man, or a brown man, or a red man, or a yellow man, then we'd rush to label him a terrorist with no questions asked.

[plimsoll]

19. Wrong that.

If he supported say a Marxist/Leninist philosophy you bet he’d be called a terrorist. The question is how far left you have to be a white terrorist. A more accurate point would be that he isn’t far enough right to be a white terrorist. Given where this guy appears to be on that right wing spectrum I’d say that there can’t be white right wing terrorist.

[calimary]

24. Sometimes the blackest heart beats under a supposedly white hat.

Sure sounds like a terrorist to me.

[SheltieLover]

7. This!👆

[Bluethroughu]

14. Exactly.

[colorado_ufo]

8. Child support office?

You mean, this thing reproduced? What is wrong with women to pick men like this!

[IronLionZion]

10. Dude doesn't want to pay processing fees

so child support must be some deep state qonspiracy or something.

[ShazzieB]

16. I don't know about him...

But there are lots of terrible, abusive men who know how to hide that side of themselves early in a relationship. Up to a point, anyway. There are always red flags, if a woman knows how to recognize them, but a lot don't.

Reproducing can make it lot a harder for a woman to leave a relationship, and a lot of these men know that.

[colorado_ufo]

25. Very true!

[plimsoll]

20. Anti abortion probably too.

[Caliman73]

9. Oh but he is just a poor, misunderstood, "lone wolf". Or, he is mentally ill.

Anything to distract from the main problem, that he has like many other angry White men, latched on to the violent right wing rhetoric that is flooded throughout the internet and pushed by mainstream right wingers at Fox News and on right wing radio all over the country.

Many in right wing media are not explicitly saying "burn down Federal buildings", or "kill Feds". They are simply saying that the government is tyrannical, that the FBI is explicitly going after White men and Conservatives, and that "Your entire way of life is being threatened by 'the Elites' in Washington". They leave it to those angriest and most brainwashed to close the loop and take action.

Then the right wingers in media say, "Violence is not the answer BUT... why would someone do something like that...?" and launch into another screed about how the government is tyranny and targeting White men, etc....

[gratuitous]

12. Exactly

Why, "kill feds, kill police" could mean almost anything! We shouldn't jump to any conclusions, because we don't know what was in this poor fellow's heart. Maybe he just likes Hawai'ian shirts.

[IronLionZion]

15. He probably "backs the blue" as much as the Jan 6 folks

[KS Toronado]

11. If they set bail for this guy

it better be in the millions of $$$$s

[packman]

17. Damn- that guy was ambitious with big plans

and little brains

[majdrfrtim]

18. He seems nice.

Definitely NOT "a deplorable"!

[plimsoll]

21. I'd cross the street to avoid this guy at night.

I remember when Jesse Jackson got in trouble for saying some like that. So I must hate white people. Mirrors are tough.

[AllaN01Bear]

22. where does 2nd amendment cover owning a grenade launcher and grenades .

wmds

[DetroitLegalBeagle]

27. Based on the Bruen ruling

Point out the law that existed in 1791 that would ban possession of them. Cannon were privately held at the time. Thanks to Thomas and his Bruen opinion, its no longer a stretch for a court to find that grenade launchers are protected now.

[TheRickles]

23. Wait - I thought owning a rifle-mounted grenade launcher was protected by the 2nd Amendment....

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

26. One of Trump's "Very fine people"