“Boogaloo” Follower Charged with Killing Police Officer during BLM Protest
The more extreme followers of Boogaloo believe in “accelerationism,” that is, combining direct attacks on law enforcement personnel with the encouragement and incitement of large-scale civil strife and violence in order to “accelerate” to collapse of already-rotten Western governments. Boogaloo followers believe that these corrupt governments, controlled by Jews and serving the interests of racial and ethnic minorities, are “oppressing” White people in the pursuit of a long-term goal variously called “White Genocide” or “Great Replacement”: Turning White Christian majorities in Western countries into minorities by encouraging the migration of black- and brown-skinned non-Christians into Western countries (for more on accelerationism, see Jacob Gallagher, “Why the Extremist ‘Boogaloo Boys’ Wear Hawaiian Shirts: Aloha Shirts Have Become a Disconcerting Signature for Members of a Gun-Toting, Anti-Government Faction,” Wall Street Journal, 8 June 2020; Daniel Byman, “Riots, White Supremacy and Accelerationism,” Lawfare, 1 June 2020; and “Why Some Protesters in America Wear Hawaiian Shirts,” Economist, 23 May 2020).
Local media report that Carillo used his own blood to write “boog” on the hood of a car.
“The boogaloo term is used by extremists to reference a violent uprising or impending civil war in the United States,” said U.S. Attorney David Anderson on Tuesday during a press conference in Oakland.
It was the second case of far-right extremists being arrested in relation to the Floyd protests against police brutality and racism.
On 3 June, Las Vegas police arrested three followers of the Boogaloo movement and charged them for attempting to incite riot and start fires during a Black Lives Matter protest. The three had originally tried to stir up violence in mid-May protests against the coronavirus shutdown, the indictment said, citing a confidential FBI source.
Prosecutors say that on 30 May, they decided to use the Floyd protests as a cover to stir up violence, preparing guns, ammunition, and Molotov cocktails for that purpose.
One “was very upset that the protests were not turning violent,” the indictment said.
There have been other arrests of boogaloo adherents in recent months in Colorado, Texas and Ohio, each involving plots to ambush law enforcement.
The Telegraph notes that President Donald Trump and Attorney General Bill Barr have repeatedly claimed that the protests and riots in a number of cities were driven by leftists of the “antifa” or anti-fascist movement, but that after hundreds of arrests nationwide and thousands of hours of interrogations, no evidence has yet emerged of organized leftists promoting violence in the demonstrations.
The decentralized, dispersed, leaderless nature of the Boogaloo movement corresponds to the growing emphasis on violent action among a growing number of followers (see Ben Lee, “Blind Networks in the Extreme-Right,” HSNW, 16 June 2020). A small number of dedicated activists is more suitable for violent activity, Belew told the Times. “They do not want 1,000 people down in the street,” she said. “They are interested in six people who can make and detonate a bomb.”
On 28 May, a day before his first killing, Carrillo, referring to the growing Floyd protests, posted this on his Facebook page: “It’s a great opportunity to target the specialty soup bois.” Boogaloo followers often use “bois” to refer to uniformed government personnel (but also to themselves, as in “Boogaloo Bois”). “Soup” refers to the “alphabet soup” of government agencies Boogaloo followers target: FBI, DEA, and other law enforcement agencies.
