As this administration attempts to create the specter of #Antifa as an extremist threat, we should take a moment to go through some of the actual violence caused by right wing extremist. (1/6)
10.22.18-11.1.18: Cesar Sayoc Jr., a fervent Trump supporter, mailed 16 bombs to people he considered to be Trump’s enemies. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty. (2/6)
nytimes.com/2019/08/05/nyr…
5/30/20-Stephen Parshall, Andrew Lynam, and William Loomis, three Boogaloo Bois, we’re indicted on conspiracy, terrorism and possession of explosives in Las Vegas. (3/6)
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6/15/20-Scott Williams, a Trump Supporter, was arrested for shooting one protestor and assaulting two others. Williams. Along with several armed right wing militia counter-protestors, aggressively engaged with protestors. (4/6)
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6.16.20-Steven Carillio, a Boogaloo Boi, charged with murdering three law enforcement agents. (5/6)
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8.25.20-Counter-protestors Kyle Rittenhouse arrested on charge of first-degree intentional homicide for shootings that left two people dead during protests. (6/6)
nytimes.com/2020/08/27/us/…
9.3.20-Blue Lives Matter supporters Michael Karmo & Cody Smith arrested outside Kenosha w/ AR-15, shotgun, handguns, magazines, homemade silencer, body armor & drone. Karmo told tipster "he was going to Kenosha w/ intention of using firearms on people.”(+1)yahoo.com/gma/blue-lives…
9.5.20-Michael Solomon & Benjamin Teeter, members of the Boogaloo Bois, authorities say, charged w/ conspiring to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization, for building & seeping firearms suppressors. (+2)
news.yahoo.com/alleged-boogal…
9.30.20-Alan Swinney, a member of the Proud Boys, arrested on assault & gun charges hours after Trump refuses to denounce white supremacy. Swinney pointed a gun at demonstrators in Portland on 8.22.20.(+3)
news.yahoo.com/police-arrest-…
10.8.20-Six men charged in alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. Alleged plot included plans to overthrow several state governments(+4)
cnn.com/2020/10/08/pol…
10.6.20-Eric Allport, a Boogaloo Boi, was killed by federal agents during a shootout in Texas after Allport opened fire while agents were executing an arrest warrant for a federal weapons offense, leaving one person dead and an FBI agent injured.(+5)
metrotimes.com/news-hits/arch…
10.16.20-Meredith Dowty arrested on suspicion of threatening to kidnap and kill Wichita Mayor Brandon Whipple over frustrations with the city’s mask ordinance.(+6)
kansas.com/news/politics-…
10.17.20-Carlos Gavidia, prominent Trump boat parade organizer, charged with sending a written, anti-Semitic threat to kill or do bodily injury in Florida.(+7)
newsweek.com/florida-boat-p…
10.23.20-Reported that Alexander Hillel Treisman arrested for plotting to assassinate @JoeBiden.(+8)
washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/10…
10.24.29-Ivan Harrison, a member of the far-right anti-government Boogaloo Bois has been charged with opening fire on a Minneapolis police precinct while pretending to be a Black Lives Matter protester.(+9)
yahoo.com/huffpost/booga…
10.26.20-Neo-Nazi Ex-Marines, Porn Actor Arrested on federal Weapons and Conspiracy charges, linked to threats against a #BLM co-founder.(+10)
huffpost.com/entry/camp-lej…
10.29.20-Federal agents arrest Justen Watkins and Alfred Gorman during a pair of raids as part of a continuing crackdown on extremism in Michigan three weeks after the FBI thwarted a plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.(+11)
detroitnews.com/story/news/loc…
11.5.20-Philadelphia Police Department arrested two armed men Thursday night who allegedly were armed and heading to the city's convention center where ballots were being counted.(+12)
news.yahoo.com/philadelphia-p…
11.6.20-Los Angeles-area man arrested after threatening on social media, “If Biden gets in, I’m just going to do like a school shooter, just take out all these Democrats.”(+13)
latimes.com/california/sto…
11.6.20-Antonio LaMotta and Joshua Macias, two men from Virginia were arrested Thursday night in Philadelphia and charged with illegal possession of firearms outside the Pennsylvania Convention Center, where mail-in ballots were being counted.(+14)
richmond.com/news/state-and…
11.11.20-Brian Maiorana of Staten Island arrested for making death threats, making anti-Semitic threats toward Sen. Schumer, and threatened to "blow up the FBI building." A firearm was found at his home. He is a registered sex offender.(+15)
news.yahoo.com/man-threatened…
12.13.20-Dozens arrested during night of unrest in downtown DC, beginning w/ Proud Boys & other far-right groups rallying for Trump & descending into chaos & violence, w/ 4 different stabbings & burning of #BLM signs at historically black churches.(+16)
washingtonpost.com/local/public-s…
12.21.20-Hundreds of demonstrators, many armed, many members of the Proud Boys, Patriot Prayer & other far-right groups, attempted to force their way into the Oregon State Capitol where lawmakers were holding a special closed session.(+17)
yahoo.com/news/heavily-a…
12.15.20-Former Police Capt. Mark Aguirre arrested/charged w/ running man off road & pointing gun at his head to prove unfounded voter fraud claim.”He crossed the line from dirty politics to commission of violent crime & we’re lucky no one was killed.”(+18)washingtonpost.com/investigations…
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