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Days before the trial of the officer charged with murdering George Floyd is set to begin in Minneapolis, the FBI has arrested a member of the Boogaloo Bois who tried to travel to the city during this summers unrest and who has been in contact with a fellow extremist accused of attacking a police station there.
Jaap Willem Lijbers, 26, is an undocumented Dutch citizen living in Virginia who investigators have tied to the white nationalist movement that wants to overthrow the U.S. government by inciting a second civil war. He was arrested during a raid on his home in rural Virginia on weapons and immigrations charges.
According to a criminal complaint filed March 2 in Virginia federal court, Lijbers was a member of a private Facebook group that included Steven Carrillo, a notorious Boogaloo Boi and Air Force sergeant charged in a series of politically motivated cop killings last June. It says Lijbers had also been in direct contact with Benjamin Ryan Teeter, a North Carolina Boogaloo Boi who in December pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges for attempting to provide material support to Hamas, and with Ivan Harrison Hunter, a Boogaloo Boi from Texas charged with rioting after firing 13 rounds from an AK-47 style assault rifle into a Minneapolis police station during the 2020 civil unrest that followed the death of Floyd while being detained by police.
The term boogaloo refers to the title of the 1984 movie Breakin 2: Electric Boogaloo, to denote a sequel to the American Civil War that ended in 1865. The terminology has evolved over time, and has come to include soundalike words such as big luau. Playing off of this, many Boogaloo Bois have adopted the Hawaiian shirt as an unofficial uniform of sorts.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/feds-bust-gun-crazy-boogaloo-034340477.html
We have enough of our own RWNJs. We don't need to import any.
rockfordfile
(8,702 posts)magicarpet
(14,144 posts)Safe and encouraged passage for Nazi Boys. Bannon is like a walking Fux snooz propaganda machine intent on the destruction and thrill of decimating our Democracy.
Dan
(3,550 posts)Will he face additional charges, unlike our homegrown domestic terrorist?