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appalachiablue

(41,056 posts)
Wed Jun 3, 2020, 10:03 PM Jun 2020

(*Duplicate, Moving to 'Editorials) Prosecutors: 3 Arrested On Terrorism Charges In Las Vegas

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Source: Associated Press

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.

Federal prosecutors say the three white men with U.S. military experience are accused of conspiring to carry out a plan that began in April in conjunction with protests to reopen businesses closed because of the coronavirus and later sought to capitalize on protests over the death of a Minneapolis man in police custody.

They were arrested Saturday on the way to a protest in downtown Las Vegas after filling gas cans at a parking lot and making Molotov cocktails in glass bottles, according to a copy of the criminal complaint obtained by the Associated Press.

The complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Las Vegas on Wednesday said they self-identified as part of the "boogaloo" movement, which U.S. prosecutors said in the document is "a term used by extremists to signify coming civil war and/or fall of civilization."...

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/prosecutors-3-arrested-on-terrorism-charges-in-las-vegas/ar-BB14ZJZ5?ocid=UE12DHP

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(*Duplicate, Moving to 'Editorials) Prosecutors: 3 Arrested On Terrorism Charges In Las Vegas (Original Post) appalachiablue Jun 2020 OP
K & r for visibility. IllinoisBirdWatcher Jun 2020 #1
Goona be boogalooing off to jail DeminPennswoods Jun 2020 #2
K&R n/t AntiFascist Jun 2020 #3
They only found 3 they could arrest????????????? Ford_Prefect Jun 2020 #4
When you see three, you know there's 50, appalachiablue Jun 2020 #5
After a review by forum hosts....LOCKING Omaha Steve Jun 2020 #6

IllinoisBirdWatcher

(2,315 posts)
1. K & r for visibility.
Wed Jun 3, 2020, 10:05 PM
Jun 2020

DeminPennswoods

(15,246 posts)
2. Goona be boogalooing off to jail
Wed Jun 3, 2020, 10:17 PM
Jun 2020

nt

AntiFascist

(12,792 posts)
3. K&R n/t
Wed Jun 3, 2020, 10:18 PM
Jun 2020

Ford_Prefect

(7,829 posts)
4. They only found 3 they could arrest?????????????
Wed Jun 3, 2020, 10:21 PM
Jun 2020

appalachiablue

(41,056 posts)
5. When you see three, you know there's 50,
Wed Jun 3, 2020, 10:27 PM
Jun 2020

just like rats!

Omaha Steve

(99,074 posts)
6. After a review by forum hosts....LOCKING
Wed Jun 3, 2020, 10:29 PM
Jun 2020

Dupe. See the earlier post here: https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142506859

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