Tagged: Boogaloo Boys

• THE SILENCE OF THE DOLPHINS: ARREST UNCOVERS BOOGALOO BOY NETWORK

  February 9, 2022 | MICHAEL BOORMAN

  Another day, another Boogaloo arrest: this time an overconfident gun technician and a brand new network of civil war wannabes. Thanks to a tip from the extremely handsome and charismatic Seamus Hughes at the George Washington University Project on Extremism LCRW is both amused and depressed to report the recent arrest of Matthew Chen, 26, […]

• CITIZEN’S LIBERTY ORGANIZATION: ONE OF THE BOOGALOO MOVEMENT’S BIGGEST DISCORD CHATS

  January 16, 2021 |

  HARVEY EISNER, MICHAEL BOORMAN, ABNER HÄUGE Last year the Boogaloo movement provided an ominous taste of one possible future for America. As it struggled to find its identity, new social communities formed online. One of them, Citizen’s Liberty Organization (CLO), contained over 2000 members–all dedicated in varying degrees to the idea of overthrowing the federal […]

• FBI ARRESTS CALIFORNIA BOOGALOO BOY ON CHILD PORNOGRAPHY CHARGES

  December 3, 2020 | MICHAEL BOORMAN

  The FBI arrested another member of the Boogaloo movement in California on Wednesday–this time, for involvement in child pornography. Robert Jesus Blancas, described as ‘a transient resident of the Bay Area’ was arrested on December 1st and arraigned in San Francisco. If convicted, he faces the possibility of life in prison. The FBI’s interest in […]

• ONLINE FASCISTS THOUGHT THIS BOOGALOO MARTYR WAS THEIR GUY–THEY MAY BE RIGHT

  October 27, 2020 | HARVEY EISNER | ABNER HÄUGE

  Facts surrounding the March 12th killing of Duncan Socrates Lemp by Montgomery County Police Department’s SWAT team are scarce. The police have their version of events. They claim Lemp was plotting violence, had illegal weapons, had a booby-trapped shotgun shell outside his room waiting for the cops and met them with a rifle in his […]

• Q AND LOATHING IN HOLLYWOOD

  August 26, 2020 | ABNER HÄUGE

  The swelling crowd looms up and hits me psychically like a wave I couldn’t tell was too damn big. “CHILD LIVES MATTER!” “AGAIN!” “CHILD LIVES MATTER! On every corner of Hollywood and Vine, the foam from an internet swell hisses in my ears. I can’t even hear their babble for the semi-coherent conspiracy theories they’re […]

• MINDEN, NEVADA: MILITIAS PLAN ARMED INTIMIDATION AT BLACK LIVES MATTER RALLY

  August 8, 2020 | ABNER HÄUGE

  It started with the Douglas County Public Library’s relatively benign proposed statement against bigotry. “The Douglas County Public Library denounces all acts of racism, violence and disregard for human rights. We support #BlackLivesMatter,” the statement reads in part. “Due to your support of Black Lives Matter and the obvious lack of support or trust with […]

• “CALLING ME A NAZI IS RACIAL PROFILING”–INSIDE BOOGALOO PUBLIC RELATIONS

  June 12, 2020 | ABNER HÄUGE

  By now a lot of us are aware of the “Boogaloo Boys”––a seemingly loose-knit group of militiamen and gun enthusiasts who fetishize having a “Civil War II: Electric Boogaloo.” These types first got on the mainstream media’s radar because they showed up to the Virginia Citizens Defense League’s massive gun rally in Richmond way back […]