FBI arrests an Ohio 'Boogaloo Boi' for plotting ambush of police officers at national park

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The self-described “Boogaloo Boi” had a carefully laid-out plan: In order to spark an uprising that would lead to the imposition of martial law and thus the next civil war, he would ambush police officers responding to a fake domestic-violence call, who were to be stealthily surrounded by armed militiamen, “and the officers would have to put their pistols on the ground or get shot by the count of ten.” He also “hoped we don’t have to put them down, but I will do it if I have to.”

On May 8, Christian Ferguson of Cleveland, Ohio, performed a “dry run” of his plan with a couple of men he thought were fellow militiamen at Cuyahoga National Park. The men, however, were informants, and later that day the FBI arrested Ferguson and charged him with plotting to kidnap or kill police officers in order to steal their equipment. He is 20 years old.

Ferguson’s case underscores the simmering violence latent in the so-called “Boogaloo” movement, which is fueled by violent memes fantasizing about an armed uprising against both the government and their fellow citizens. A “Boogaloo” enthusiast in Colorado was also recently arrested by the FBI on pipe-bomb charges after he boasted on Facebook that he intended to bring his long rifles to an anti-lockdown protest in Denver. Earlier, a man in Missouri who also apparently participated in “Boogaloo” discussions was arrested for plotting to bomb a suburban hospital. FBI agents, according to the affidavit filed in the case, became interested in Ferguson’s activities after he began posting plans for an armed uprising fomented by the militia group he claimed to lead, the “75th Spartans,” on the Discord gaming chat app. They assigned two informants who infiltrated the group and began collecting evidence regarding Ferguson’s plans.

As Will Sommer explains at The Daily Beast, those plans were simultaneously callous and bloodthirsty:

Ferguson allegedly imagined setting the dead officers’ bodies and cars on fire after the ambush, and leaving a “calling card” with the militia’s name to inspire other anti-government militias to attack law enforcement. In a tape recording made by a federal informant, Ferguson allegedly imagined a Fox News broadcast warning that “the Spartans are killing police officers.”

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[leftieNanner]

1. Can't they just start a GoFundMe

For their penis enlargement surgery and get it over with. Geez.

[crickets]

2. Crazy. Glad they caught him. K&R for visibility.

[Ferryboat]

3. Only one question

Does he live in mom's basement?

[Delmette2.0]

4. FFS, 20 years old!

I can't imagine what adversity has so affected this young man that this is this is his solution.

[Alliepoo]

5. Probably no adversity

They’re just ignorant, entitled, intellectually lazy assholes.

[uponit7771]

6. Electric Boogalo is a 80s movie full of break dancers black and white. It was progressive enough

... and they hate it.

MAGA Clucker rally cry for race war

[RandiFan1290]

7. I was ridiculed by a resident troll just a few weeks ago

for stating that these trump thugs planned on killing cops.