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LiberalArkie

(15,703 posts)
Wed Jun 3, 2020, 06:03 PM Jun 2020

Gun-toting members of the Boogaloo movement are showing up at protests

(CNN)Benjamin Ryan Teeter was at his home in Hampstead, N.C., when the call to action came. It was an alert from the heart of the raging protests in Minneapolis, posted on an online forum by a fellow member of the Boogaloo movement, a loosely knit group of heavily armed, anti-government extremists.

The "alert" was from a man who had a run-in with the Minneapolis police while on the frontline of the police-brutality protests set off by the death of George Floyd.

"He caught mace to the face," said Teeter, and "put out a national notice to our network."



After Teeter -- who goes by Ryan -- said he saw the online posting, he and a handful of other Boogaloo friends in the area mobilized.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/03/us/boogaloo-extremist-protests-invs/index.html

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Gun-toting members of the Boogaloo movement are showing up at protests (Original Post) LiberalArkie Jun 2020 OP
All pinks. roamer65 Jun 2020 #1
Ok, I am confused. Blue_true Jun 2020 #2
Boogaloo Bois are who they are LiberalArkie Jun 2020 #3
Anybody with the power to tell them what to do. Volaris Jun 2020 #20
Yes, sounds like a good synopsis. nt Blue_true Jun 2020 #21
"He and a handful of other Boogaloo friends in the area mobilized." sop Jun 2020 #4
This! Stinky The Clown Jun 2020 #6
Mobilized meaning they gassed up their mopeds. LastDemocratInSC Jun 2020 #10
Skateboards most likely. sop Jun 2020 #17
"anti-government extremists" hibbing Jun 2020 #5
Kinda sounds synonymous with sarisataka Jun 2020 #7
Yes, THIS. crickets Jun 2020 #18
Stupid Shits... GulfCoast66 Jun 2020 #8
3 of them just got arrested on Terrorism charges in Las Vegas DrToast Jun 2020 #9
LIKE WHOA !!! uponit7771 Jun 2020 #11
Yeah, big deal, eh? DrToast Jun 2020 #12
I've been telling some people that this is happening for days and now we have solid proof. Folk who uponit7771 Jun 2020 #13
I think they try to mimic the Euro-terrorists as portrayed in the "Die Hard" movies. LiberalArkie Jun 2020 #15
Makes sense, the privileged want to see it burn down uponit7771 Jun 2020 #16
Ignorant white wing losers. Hoyt Jun 2020 #14
Lock these motherfuckers up. This is not a peaceful assembly. madinmaryland Jun 2020 #19
Nope, not with long guns it isnt any such thing. Volaris Jun 2020 #22
How stupid and un-American rockfordfile Jun 2020 #23
They basically want the whole country turned into a re-enactment of Deadwood... Wounded Bear Jun 2020 #26
Kick Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2020 #24
There's a few legs I'd piss on. hunter Jun 2020 #25
it's no wonder onethatcares Jun 2020 #27

Volaris

(10,266 posts)
20. Anybody with the power to tell them what to do.
Wed Jun 3, 2020, 09:43 PM
Jun 2020

Yeah, the cops.
POC-- they think that giving actual equality to other people, is depriving them of power, thereby giving those POC the power to tell them what to do.

They think that illegitimate government means 'I didnt get what i voted for cause i lost.'

sop

(10,103 posts)
4. "He and a handful of other Boogaloo friends in the area mobilized."
Wed Jun 3, 2020, 06:14 PM
Jun 2020

"Mobilized"? These imbeciles really are a bunch of poseurs.

GulfCoast66

(11,949 posts)
8. Stupid Shits...
Wed Jun 3, 2020, 07:09 PM
Jun 2020

When President Biden declares them a terrorist organization they will be easy to find. Unlike Antifa, which really is not an organization at all.

DrToast

(6,414 posts)
9. 3 of them just got arrested on Terrorism charges in Las Vegas
Wed Jun 3, 2020, 07:10 PM
Jun 2020
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Three Nevada men with ties to a loose movement of right-wing extremists advocating the overthrow of the U.S. government have been arrested on terrorism-related charges in what authorities say was a conspiracy to spark violence during recent protests in Las Vegas.



https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2020-06-03/prosecutors-3-arrested-on-terrorism-charges-in-las-vegas

uponit7771

(90,302 posts)
13. I've been telling some people that this is happening for days and now we have solid proof. Folk who
Wed Jun 3, 2020, 07:17 PM
Jun 2020

... want to minimize this movement (cause that's what it is now, its world wide) down to property damage wont like this one.

Volaris

(10,266 posts)
22. Nope, not with long guns it isnt any such thing.
Wed Jun 3, 2020, 09:45 PM
Jun 2020

If black folks showed up at a protest dressed like that, they'd be KoS and we all know it.

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