Right-wing provocateurs continue to instigate
violence
May 31, 2020ยท9 min
Proud Boys and others who infiltrated BLM demonstrations haven’t stopped wreaking havoc
Ina ten-week period during the “Freedom Summer”
of 2020, almost 9,000 Black Lives Matter protests occurred across the country.
Many people believe most of those protests contained burning buildings, vandalized and looted businesses, and physical confrontations between police and demonstrators.
The truth is that such violence was confined to
only 7 percent of those protests that occurred between May 25 and July 31, 2020. That’s not according to BLM.
That’s according to a police group representing
the nation’s largest cities, the Major Cities Chiefs Association.
Minneapolis, ground zero for BLM where George Floyd was killed, only had 20 percent of its demonstrations fall violent.
May 29, Matthew Lee Rupert of Galesburg, Ill., reportedly filmed himself setting a Minneapolis building on fire and taking some items from an
Office Depot. He made social media posts in support of Trump and against police. He was sentenced to eight years and nine months in prison.
On May 28, 2020, Ivan Harrison Hunter of Boerne, Tx., fired 13 times at the Minneapolis Police Third Precinct building with an automatic weapon during BLM protests, according to an FBI affidavit. Hunter claimed to be a member of the Boogaloo movement, according to authorities, and later pled guilty to a rioting charge. Two other Boogaloo members who attended the late May BLM protests in Minneapolis were indicted on federal charges of attempting to provide material support to foreign terrorist organization Hamas.
There were indications that the infiltration of BLM protests were part of a loosely coordinated campaign by far-right groups. Media reports have documented that a white supremacist channel on the messaging app Telegram encouraged followers to commit violence during the protests,
according to an internal Department of Homeland Security intelligence note.
(((vans were confiscated filled of ammo and gasoline etc to start fires etc--
they were the boogaloo Bois and some Proud Boys also were arrested =guilty/
There were many trials=guilty))
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