Conservatives like to compare Black Lives Matter protesters to insurrectionists attempting to overthrow the U.S. government. A recent guilty plea involving a Minneapolis Police station struck major holes in that comparison. At the end of September 2021, Ivan Harrison Hunter, a 27-year-old Texan, pleaded guilty to firing bullets into a Minneapolis Police station last year during protests in the city over the police lynching of George Floyd. Floyd’s choking death on May 25, 2020 at the hands of disgraced former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin launched a mass uprising on the scale of the 1960s civil rights movement. Chauvin has since been convicted and sentenced to 22 years in prison. Court documents state Hunter drove from his home in San Antonio to Minneapolis to participate in a riot, according to Kare 11 News. It cited the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Minnesota in its report. Hunter, a member of the far-right Boogaloo Bois, admitted to shooting off 13 rounds from an AK-47-style, semi-automatic rifle into the Minneapolis Police Department’s Third Precinct station on May 28, 2020. It took place as others were still in and around the precinct, which had been set on fire by protesters. Boogaloo Bois started out as a meme in white supremacist and anti-government chat rooms in the early 2010s, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups across the nation. The SPLC notes that in recent years, the group has become synonymous with neo-Nazi groups who want “to see society descend into chaos so that they can come to power and build a new fascist state.”
via theblackwallstime: WHITE SUPREMACIST ADMITS TO FIRING AK-47 INTO MINNEAPOLIS POLICE STATION DURING GEORGE FLOYD PROTESTS