Michigan Gov. Whitmer speaks on six men charged with conspiring to kidnap her —10/8/2020
WaPo 3hrs ago signalled Boogaloo...but couldn’t find the anti-Trump video! dragged out Rita Katz! lol:
8 Oct: WaPo: Michigan kidnapping plot, like so many other extremist crimes, foreshadowed on social media
By Craig Timberg and Isaac Stanley-Becker; Rachel Lerman contributed to this report.
There’s a YouTube video of one suspect, Brandon Caserta, pretending to fire a weapon while wearing a sleeveless shirt that used an obscenity to describe what he’d like to do to “THE GOVERNMENT.” Visible in the closet behind him are Hawaiian shirts — common symbols of the violently anti-government Boogaloo movement. In a TikTok video, Caserta is shown wearing such a shirt.
There’s the Twitter account that apparently belongs to another suspect, Barry Croft, ranting about immigrants, praising President Trump and calling for the prosecution of Trump’s onetime Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton...
In a May (FB) post linking to an article headlined, “Trump sides with protesters against Michigan governor,” there is an accompanying image of men holding massive firearms...
SITE Executive Director Rita Katz said, “In recent months at SITE, we’ve watched different corners of the far right and militia groups flooding the same predictions of civil war, military coups, and chaos. It’s a startling consensus among them that violence against the ‘other’ is inevitable.”...
In a recent video, he is shown wearing a Hawaiian shirt, which has become a marker of the Boogaloo movement...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/10/08/michigan-plot-kidnapping-boogaloo-socialmedia/