Selfie and Facebook posts lead to arrest of Boogaloo Bois member in Texas, feds say

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Fresno Bee

BY CHACOUR KOOP
OCTOBER 30, 2020 05:50 PM, UPDATED 5 HOURS 34 MINUTES AGO

A Boogaloo Bois member in Texas was arrested after a selfie at a protest captured him unlawfully carrying a gun, officials say.

Cameron Emerson Casey Rankin, 21, was charged Thursday with prohibited possession of a firearm due to his previous committal to a mental institution, according to the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Texas.

Rankin is the latest Texas member of the far-right group that espouses violent anti-government rhetoric to be arrested this month. “Boogaloo” references a second impending civil war in the U.S., authorities say.

Last week, authorities arrested Ivan Harrison Hunter, 26, who was charged with rioting after he was accused of firing into the Minneapolis police precinct building that burned down during George Floyd protests, authorities say.


Read more: https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article246851617.html

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Cameron Emerson Casey Rankin, left.



Ivan Harrison Hunter

[Thekaspervote]

1. Stupid cretins!!

[NBachers]

2. What a bunch of deluded malcontent nitwits. Our very own Al Queda Taliban Q Anon

[Hekate]

3. Thank God they are idiots, and that now they have been arrested. Keep posting those selfies, jerks

Later on they can be compared with your mug shots.

[abqtommy]

4. There's plenty of room to house these people at Gitmo! Let's see to it!

[3Hotdogs]

5. Just because you spent time in a mental institution,

shouldn't prevent a patriot from defending 'merica from libtards.

[llashram]

6. so he is someone

who is somewhat cognitively challenged(trying to be nice here) yet this young entitled man has the ability to have a lethal death-dealing weapon in his possession! America, the entire world understands what the racist vicious underbelly of a nation looks like given the last 4 years of this soon to be ended trump maladministration.

[Ligyron]

7. Those weapons like the semi auto version he's shown carrying are not cheap by any means.

1500 to 2K easy depending on which version, who makes it plus options and accessories. Then there's the tactical gear and uniform he's decked out in that in their mind causes women to hands free orgasm at the very sight of all that testosterone walking around with such a large, phallic misrepresentation of their manhood.

Anyway sorry, I digress but he might be wearing a good 3K worth of paramilitary gear is my point. Where does a mentally challenged person come up with that much scratch?

Also, like that kid that shot those 3 people after chillin' with his LE buddies. Mom and Dad ya think?

[marie999]

8. This post is not about this person but about many people who have been in a mental institution.

Just because a person has been in a mental institution does not mean they have cognitive problems. I have been in the VA hospital in Jacksonville NC psych ward more than once and 2 months ago I was given a neuropsychic evaluation. My worse score was average and I had 3 superior scores. And no, they don't ask you to repeat 5 words, you have to repeat 10 words. You do that 3 times and then they continue with the testing and 15 minutes later they ask you what the words were. I got 9 right. The test is 2 1/2 hours long. As for mentally challenged, the right medications can help a person lead a normal life.

[llashram]

10. I commented on THIS person only

I really did not want to get into the "white, entitled" truth stuff. "Cognitive"? An arbitrary choice of word. I would never denigrate people who are struggling in dealing with themselves and their experiences. Took issue with what I wrote? I just looked at the photo(s) and knew a lethal death-dealing instrument of execution should not have been in this person's possession. I stand by those words, okay. I can relate to struggling with one's own issues. Yet this kid was way off his meds or they weren't doing a goddamn thing with his symptoms. He is not leading a "normal life". IF trump wins, he will be in the brownshirt sweeps of minority and identified liberal strongholds/communities.

I voted.

By the way, I have walked the halls of VA myself. Many times.

[moriah]

12. I've been in, too -- but never involuntarily, which is the line for ownership.

Basically, the country has decided that if -- even in the midst of even a psychotic break, though that's a very trying time to have insight into ones condition -- you have enough insight to listen to other people who say you need to go to the hospital and you go and sign yourself in for treatment, that means you have enough insight to own a gun.

However, if you ever refuse to the point your relatives have to involuntarily commit you, that shows you might not have that needed insight to say "I need help" vs "I ought to shoot myself" (which IMHO is the more pressing reason for this law).

[marie999]

13. In Onslow County NC it is usually up to the sheriff.

I had to turn over all my weapons to the sheriff's department but the sheriff always gave them back to me including my concealed weapons permit when I got out. No psych test.

[moriah]

14. Interesting -- I'm hoping it wasn't involuntary committal, tho. Those suck.

I sadly know more than I wish to about our state (Arkansas's) process.

Our state doesn't record voluntary admissions, that'd require invading medical records. The only time a person's mental capacity or "habitual alcoholism" (another rule-out for gun purchase) is going to be in records they can search with a background check is if they had a commitment, a hearing, and the judge ruled they had to be held past the 72 hour eval.

It's limiting. I shouldn't own a gun, and I don't -- but I knew well enough when my thoughts got a certain way too often that I ought to sell it. Even when I *was* psychotic I had enough sense to realize that "the nice young men in their clean white coats" were the people I wanted to deal with, not the cops/legal system, when my mom presented the choice -- so never had an involuntary commitment even when I didn't know what the heck was wrong with my brain (Bipolar I).

But it does at least mean guns are not removed without due process, which means even if the 2A gets a wider reading here than elsewhere and people like me have the right to buy one and probably shouldn't without someone like a Sheriff signing off, it also means those who do have their purchase rights stripped from such have had a day in court, and could request another perhaps.

[marie999]

15. Always involuntary because that way a Sheriff's deputy would drive me the 110 miles

to Fayetteville. They would always have a pillow and blanket for me. They would always ask me if I wanted to stop for something to eat. I can not say for certain, but I think part of it was almost all police and sheriff's deputies are former Marines and I am a service-connected disabled veteran.

[moriah]

16. If you're using the "involuntary" process voluntarily....

.... then I wouldn't see the same thing applying.

It truly blows large herds of farm animals that anyone would be in the position to have to need to have the Sheriff make the drive for them to get to the one facility they can go to, and have to use the involuntary process just to get access to care you need.

In those cases even if the law said it had to go on the record, I could see people keeping it off the books -- the spirit of "voluntary" is there, if that makes sense, even if you're using the laws to ensure you get the care you need.

Edit to add: Even at my friend's hearing, he had the chance to sign himself in instead of be involuntarily committed. I felt like a Judas having to testify to what I knew (he'd made multiple specific suicidal threats to people, to me in writing and to someone else while they were taping the call, including that he had put money down for the firearm and had shown off the receipt for the pawn shop -- our background check laws saved his life, because he only spoke of it when he couldn't get the gun the same day).

But had he chosen to go to any of the 3 hospitals in our area, even at the hearing, he would have still retained his gun rights, as it would not have been classified as involuntary. I think he knew just how badly he didn't need guns.

[marie999]

17. I always had my psychiatrist commit me. She knew me well enough to know that if I said I need to be

there it was best for her to send me. I could have gone to a non-VA hospital but Fayetteville is the best. The doctors and nurses are great. Also, the food is good. Breakfast was bacon and eggs or french toast and bacon, toast, cereal, milk, and coffee then a visit from your doctors. Shower and dress. Hot meals for lunch and supper and snacks in morning, afternoon, and at night. Peer group meetings during the day and then play time after supper until 9 PM. Phone calls during play time. Private rooms and bathrooms. After play time, change into pajamas and leave your clothes outside your door to be washed. I told them I would move in permanently if they would put in a swimming pool. Also, it is coed.

[Ligyron]

18. The VA facilities must vary greatly in their treatment of vets.

I guess I lucked out as the 4 I've received care from across the country have all been great. Granted, I never stayed overnight, but I've usually spoken with many of those who did at the facility's smoking area back when I was addicted to those things too. It was not at all unusual to see inpatients in those open back gowns they give you, IV drip stand and all smoking away down there. I heard few complaints about food or lodgings although a few had issues with the surgeries they'd undergone.

Anyway, I'm real glad you both are better and still with us.

[marie999]

20. I have been lucky also. The Oakland Park clinic in FL is great and NC has some great VA hospitals

and clinics. But with more than 150 VA hospitals and more than 800 VA clinics serving 9 million veterans it is a matter of luck being in the right place when you need them. Of the 9 million veterans, 2 million of them are women. In 2014 President Obama started the Choice plan which allowed veterans using the VA to use non-VA when needed. In 2017, the Community Care plan let veterans have more access to non-VA doctors and non-VA urgent care clinics. I do not know why all veterans that can use the system don't. Even if you like your doctors and insurance plan all you have to do is sign up and see your VA primary care provider once a year to stay active in the system because you never know when you will need them. If you get permission to use your non-VA doctor, all prescriptions they write you take them to the nearest VA clinic and they will write the same prescription for you. You take that to certain pharmacies such as Walmart and they will give you a 10 day supply and the rest of the prescription will be mailed to you by the nearest VA pharmacy. I have written basically the same thing under VETERANS but not all DU veterans look there. The main problem with VA healthcare is the Congress. The VA is short tens of thousands of doctors, nurses, and technicians.

[Ligyron]

22. OMG, I thought you had to live a certain number of miles from the nearest VA to qualify!

I need to check into that but TBH don't know where I'd find any better doctors or care.

Parking would sure be a lot easier though. Hmmm...

[marie999]

24. If you are in the VA healthcare system you can use non-VA doctors if

you you have to wait more than 20 days or have to drive for more than 30 minutes to get a primary care appointment or you have to wait more than 28 days or drive for more than 1 hour to see a specialist. If you have to take a boat you can use non-VA doctors.
You need to contact your primary care doctor who will put in a request to Community Care. If you need urgent care that you can not get because your clinic does not have the kind of doctor you need or they are closed you do not need permission from the VA to go. Check to see if there is one near you. You also need to find out what level you are. Service-connected veterans are on level 1 and it goes down to veterans who can afford to pay are on level 8. Cost for level 8 is very little.

[moriah]

19. Well, I would argue they would also be the best facility for your needs...

... not just their perks rocking, as a reason to seek treatment there.

So yeah, if your psychiatrist is initiating the process and you're cooperating with them, it *should* be treated differently. You're the one showing the insight that you think you need help.

I'm grateful that the one best psych hospital in my area is in-network on my current plan. And by "best" I mean that they offer a partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient program for stepdown services, instead of only treating emergencies and addictions. I haven't yet gotten to rate their food (hoping not to) but the facility that helped me the most (sadly in another part of the state) also had those options available after an admission, and so I'm hoping that means they'll be decent.

And my pdoc has privileges there, even if he's not on staff -- so coordination of care would be possible.

[Illumination]

9. Believe these may be kids that still live in mommy's basement!....

[TexasBushwhacker]

11. This one had an apartment

That's where they found the rifle.

I do wonder where he gets the money for interstate travel.

[AllaN01Bear]

21. if ocnvicted , his life is messed up for a long time . keep at it with those selfies please.

[ck4829]

23. K&R