The men are being held in the Clark County jail on $1 million bond each. As noted in the criminal complaint, “Boogaloo is a term used by extremists to signify a coming civil war and/or fall of civilization.”
Two men charged with conspiring to incite violence and civil unrest at protests over the killing of George Floyd previously sought to do the same thing at protests against coronavirus lockdowns, in both instances seeking to promote their extremist agenda, federal prosecutors say.
The arrests and the details of investigation leading up to it, offer perhaps the most concrete evidence to date of the role extremists may be playing in some of the violence and destruction during otherwise peaceful protests over the last two weeks. And it sheds new light on how such groups or individuals have sought to exploit other events to advance their agenda of bringing down the U.S. government, leading, in some versions of the ideology, to the creation of a white “ethno-state.
The ReOpen rally, and many others like it that took place in cities around the country during the same time, was ostensibly to bring back jobs and reopen businesses closed under state measures taken to stop the spread of the coronavirus. However, based on the conversation described in the complaint, “the group seemed to be [sic] focus their attention to the disruption of economic activity.”
The plan never materialized, but the group did attend the May 16 rally where they were approached by William Loomis. At a meet up in a park a few days later, Loomis allegedly told the group that he too “was looking to actively disrupt the United States government.” Rogers, who also teaches a course on disinformation and narrative warfare at the New York University Center for Global Affairs, says he and his team of analysts have been tracking Boogaloo-related activity online, which he said is primarily shared through hundreds of Facebook groups.
On May 27, Lynam, Parshall and Loomis allegedly met to discuss how they could “use the momentum of” Floyd’s death to “create civil unrest and rioting throughout Las Vegas.”
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