3 Nevada Men Arrested for Trying to Spark Violence Part of a Group Advocating US Gov't Overthrow (Las Vegas: attorney)

[crusinsusan]

Seems they used both the reopen protests and the floyd protests:


https://apnews.com/6223153093f08fa910c4ab445771b773

"...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...."

"...More recently, they sought to capitalize on protests over the death of George Floyd..."

"...The three men 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.

People have a right to peacefully protest. These men are agitators and instigators. Their point was to hijack the protests into violence,” Nicholas Trutanich, U.S. attorney in Nevada, told AP. He referred to what he called “real and legitimate outrage” over Floyd’s death...."

"... they self-identified as part of the “boogaloo” movement, which U.S. prosecutors said in the document is “a term used by extremists to signifycoming civil war and/or fall of civilization.”..."

..."Loomis stated he wanted to firebomb a power substation, according to the informant in the criminal complaint.
But on May 28, Lynam instructed the group to observe the riots occurring nationwide and use that momentum as a driving force to possibly take action against a fee station at Lake Mead on federal land north of the Hoover Dam, on May 30. Other targets discussed included a U.S. Forest Service ranger station, the complaint said."

The AP article goes into more about what they wanted to target. The targets are mostly law enforcement officers. With the intent being to take down the government.



Here's more about the nuts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boogaloo_movement

[Cold Warrior]

I wonder if any of this story is real.

law-enforcement officials say they have foiled bombing and shooting plots by people who have connections to the movement or at least used its terminology.

without even a single conviction.