Facebook declares "Boogaloos" a dangerous movement; bans hundreds of accounts

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/06/30/facebook-boogaloo-ban-accounts/

Facebook on Tuesday removed hundreds of accounts and groups associated with a violent network of the far-right “boogaloo” movement whose followers have been linked to violence that disrupted mostly peaceful protests around the United States.


Facebook said it was designating the part of the boogaloo movement that advocates violence as a “dangerous organization” and had taken down 220 accounts, 28 pages, 106 groups and 95 Instagram accounts associated with it.

The social media platform said it also had removed 400 more Facebook accounts and more than 100 additional groups that supported or praised the violent network.

Break the rules, get shown the door...

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I had to google it, since I'm not on facebook anymore.

I think if a movement like that spreads during the riots, that would be bad.

From what I've heard, the movement is at least partially responsible for some of the riots... most of the protests have been peaceful.

These people want a civil/race war... they're certain they'll win.
 
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I had to google it, since I'm not on facebook anymore.

I think if a movement like that spreads during the riots, that would be bad.
They have been at some of the protests. They wear Hawaiian shirts and carry guns.
Three Boogaloo Bois that were arrested by the FBI in NV. The other group that has been at some protests, specifically seen in Washington state, is the Proud Boys they are a white supremacist group. Neither group is showing up to support the protesters. So when you hear about someone getting shot or starting fires those are the first people I would suspect.

Despite detailed planning, the plot never came about. The men moved on, with aims to disrupt the economy and cause chaos at protests over the death of George Floyd, according to an FBI criminal complaint.

And all three suspects, arrested on May 30, have military backgrounds. Stephen “Kiwi” Parshall, 35, is a former Navy sailor from Las Vegas; 23-year-old Andrew Lynam is a U.S. Army Reservist from Henderson, Nevada, and William Loomis, 40, is a former airman in the U.S. Air Force from Las Vegas.

Three Nevada 'Boogaloo Bois' Arrested by FBI in Firebombing Plot

The article lists several others in other states that have been arrested at the protests.
 
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Facebook even said they'll delete the Account of anyone who supports the Boogaloos. That's being politically proactive!

I haven't seen too many groups supporting Al-Qaeda, the KKK, or ISIS... and I can't say I'm sorry for their loss.
 
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My understanding of this group is that they are somewhat diverse. I know in some instances they supported BLM in their right to protest. "We don't want violence, the last thing we want is violence:" Self-proclaimed "Boogaloo Bois" among armed Idahoans at protests

Here is what one TV station suggests:
"The Boogaloos are an emerging incarnation of extremism that seems to defy easy categorization. They are yet another confounding factor in the ongoing effort among local, state and federal officials to puzzle out the political sympathies of the agitators showing up to the mostly peaceful George Floyd rallies who have destroyed property, looted businesses, or — in the case of the Boogaloos who descended on Minneapolis — walked around the streets with assault rifles.

Boogaloo members appear to hold conflicting ideological views with some identifying as anarchists and others rejecting formal titles. Some pockets of the group have espoused white supremacy while others reject it. But they have at least two things in common: an affinity for toting around guns in public and a “boogaloo” rallying cry, which is commonly viewed as code for another US civil war."Gun-toting members of the Boogaloo movement are showing up at protests - Local News 8
 
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I can't get over the name tho. :scratch:

Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo - Wikipedia

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films - Wikipedia

Back in the 1980s "boogaloo" was a harmless term that had the same connotations as "shindig".

As can be seen from my above links, the term was used both in the title of a 1984 break-dancing movie *and* a 2014 documentary about the production company that made said movie. I actually have the latter in my collection, and am looking to obtain the former in due time.
 
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They have been at some of the protests. They wear Hawaiian shirts and carry guns.
Three Boogaloo Bois that were arrested by the FBI in NV. The other group that has been at some protests, specifically seen in Washington state, is the Proud Boys they are a white supremacist group. Neither group is showing up to support the protesters. So when you hear about someone getting shot or starting fires those are the first people I would suspect.

Despite detailed planning, the plot never came about. The men moved on, with aims to disrupt the economy and cause chaos at protests over the death of George Floyd, according to an FBI criminal complaint.

And all three suspects, arrested on May 30, have military backgrounds. Stephen “Kiwi” Parshall, 35, is a former Navy sailor from Las Vegas; 23-year-old Andrew Lynam is a U.S. Army Reservist from Henderson, Nevada, and William Loomis, 40, is a former airman in the U.S. Air Force from Las Vegas.

Three Nevada 'Boogaloo Bois' Arrested by FBI in Firebombing Plot

The article lists several others in other states that have been arrested at the protests.

Proud Boys are basically a right-wing paramilitary group. It's not hard to figure out what they are trying to do, with close connections to some of Trump's closest henchmen like Roger Stone.
 
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Proud Boys are basically a right-wing paramilitary group. It's not hard to figure out what they are trying to do, with close connections to some of Trump's closest henchmen like Roger Stone.
I didn't know they had anything to do with Roger Stone.
 
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I can't get over the name tho. :scratch:
It's based on the very bad movie "Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo". The term "<Something> 2: Electric Boogaloo" is usually used for something that happens again and is either poorly done or entirely unwanted; though some people use it for any major event happening again.
 
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‘Kill Feds, Kill Police’: FBI Nabs Boogaloo Boi With Grenade Launcher

An anti-government extremist in Ohio built homemade machine guns, stockpiled silencers and bomb-making materials, and acquired a rifle-mounted grenade launcher—which he later said he received in a trade along with some “primo cocaine”—as part of a scheme to kill as many government officials as possible before police killed him, according to a criminal complaint

Sandusky resident Aron McKillips, 29, was arrested Tuesday by members of a task force from the FBI’s Cleveland Division. He is a “well-known member” of the Boogaloo Bois, a loosely affiliated militia group seeking to overthrow the government by touching off a second Civil War, states the complaint, which was unsealed Tuesday in Toledo federal court. McKillips is charged with unlawful possession of a machine gun and interstate communication of threats.

“This [poop] started out being a [doggone] way to kill feds,” McKillips allegedly said in an audio recording posted to a Signal chat room last year in which he talked about “burning down federal buildings and shooting federal agents.”

“That’s what we were about,” McKillips continued, according to the complaint. “The main [doggone] beginning was kill feds, kill police, kill government officials. Kill them. Murder them. Unalive them. Delete them. Get rid of them. And then it became ‘we’re gonna do this peaceful.’ [Fornicate] that.”

“Ain’t Got a federal badge off a corpse yet, so my time here ain’t near done yet lol,” McKillips said in one of the recordings, according to the complaint. “I don’t believe in anything. I’m only here for the violence so-we gonna [doggone] start killing people like federal agents and [poop] or are we gonna [doggone] sit here and [pass the time pleasurably]?”

McKillips is set to appear Tuesday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Darrell A. Clay.
 
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2 alleged 'boogaloo' members arrested in Michigan and Ohio

DETROIT (AP) — The FBI has arrested two alleged members of the far-right anti-government group the Boogaloo Boys, with authorities increasingly concerned about the potential for violence in the leadup to next week's midterm elections.

Thankfully AP eschews naughty words, so I can provide a link.
 
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What on earth is "Boogaloo"?
And where does the name come from?

The name comes indirectly from the film Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo

The term "boogaloo" on its own has become a slang term on the Internet beginning as early as 2012, coming to widespread attention in late 2019.[21][22] Used by some far-right extremists to describe an uprising against the American government, the term originated from the idea that such a conflict would be, like the film, a "sequel" to the American Civil War; that is, "Civil War 2: Electric Boogaloo".
 
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I think it's such a loosely affiliated "movement", that it's tough to really refer to them as a monolithic group.

Based on what I've seen on social media...it ranges from gun rights libertarians (who like to march with Hawaiian shirts and AR's, but disavow racism), to people who are legitimate white supremacists.
 
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