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Showing Original Post only (View all)Feds arrest trio of 'Boogaloo Bois' planning to lob Molotov cocktails at Vegas protest crowd [View all]
Three Boogaloo Bois had big plans for Saturday in Las Vegas. They stopped off at a gas station en route to an anti-police protest over the death of George Floyd, and filled up a gas can. They had begun making the Molotov cocktails they intended to launch into the crowd of protesters when they suddenly found themselves surrounded and arrested.
The men, all with military backgrounds and a devotion to far-right Boogaloo memes, were charged Wednesday by federal authorities with plotting to attack the protest in order to further their hope for a civil/race war, Nevada U.S. Attorney Nicholas Trutanich announced.
Violent instigators have hijacked peaceful protests and demonstrations across the country, including Nevada, exploiting the real and legitimate outrage over Mr. Floyds death for their own radical agendas, Trutanich said. Law enforcement is focused on keeping violence and destruction from interfering with free public expression and threatening lives.
The menStephen T. Parshall, 35, a former Navy enlistee; Andrew T. Lynam Jr., 23, an Army reservist; and William L. Loomis, 40, a former Air Force enlisteeare being held on $1 million bond each in the Clark County jail, according to court records. Parshall and Loomis are from Las Vegas while Lynam hails from suburban Henderson.
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