Man Accused Of Killing A Cop Scrawled Message In Blood Referring To ‘Boogaloo’ | Talking Points Memo

A man charged yesterday with the ambush killing of a police officer also appears to have scrawled a reference in blood to a second Civil War.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1314316

OT, but do they teach the 5 W’s in journalism anymore? I had to read 6 paragraphs before finding a geographic reference and still had to presume that this happened in CA. Yo, TPM editor! How’s about you take another look at this piece?

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“active duty Air Force staff sergeant, who was part of an elite security force at Travis Air Force Base”

That’s reassuring.

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The active duty Air Force staff sergeant, who was part of an elite security force at Travis Air Force Base, is set to be arraigned Friday.

While we’re looking to reimagine the policing in this nation, the USAF deserves harsh scrutiny, too.

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This would only be newsworthy if he had scrawled “antifa”.

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These guys (and I do mean guys) are everywhere. The country needs to wake up. Georgia is about to send a QAnon acolyte to Congress. Remember, Q? They are the ones who got a deranged guy to drive to D.C. to shoot up a pizza parlor because he thought there was a pedophile ring in the basement being run by Hilary Clinton. The building does not even have a basement.

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@castor_troy offered some pretty strong criticism of the fly boys yesterday. :wink:

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So wait - this isn’t an ‘antifa false flag something-somethng’?

Yeah - wait till Miller puts Trump up to pardoning this asshole.

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Hey, this seems like one of the nicer ones.

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In case anyone is still wondering who the real ‘terrorists’ are.

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Boogaloo is today’s Helter Skelter: a theory on the revolt of white patriarchists who actually do not need any theory at all when the mood for killing and mayhem strikes.

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The US Air Force is HEAVILY infiltrated by Evangelical Dominionists and other (typically Evangelical) radical nut jobs.

It’s gotten so bad that the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, CO. has been sanctioned for “excess proselytizing” and browbeating cadets to join their Evangelical ministries, sometimes encouraging other cadets to physically assault them to make them drop out if they “won’t convert”.
American Taliban anyone?

Multiple Air Force Generals have been disciplined for the same issue, an the Pentagon is overrun with them.

This also might explain why President Cartman has replaced the traditional Marine Guards in some instances with Air Force personnel.

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I just can’t with the crazy. I just can’t with those that are so blind they will not see. And was the John Birch Society correct? What the fuck is in our water system that the cray-cray is more cray-cray than ever before?

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OK, so maybe you can help me some.

My beloved son has become a libertarian who believes cops are the enemy. In the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder and the subsequent police riots, it’s hard not to agree with him. Please understand, I’m not a defund the police advocate, just looking to bring more accountability to a force that has separated itself from the mainstream.

However, he also claims that the symbols and terms being used, like Pepe the frog, the Hawaiian shirts, and boogaloo bois, are actually trolling the SPLC and other organizations that track hate groups.

So at what point do “trolling” symbols become the de facto symbols of these people? How do you convince someone that you can’t cut out of your life that either way those symbols are causing harm?

I don’t have anyone else I can ask this of, so I hope your collective wisdom will help me comprehend.

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lem’me guess…white guy?

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There we go again, violence perpetrated by right-wing extremists while the talking asshats on Faux News, one of the few channels that the right wing visits, yap on about some “scary glimpse” about what the “left” wants.

The dichotomy between reality that we see and right wing “journalism” is really jarring.

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Read this to better understand the boogaloo bois:

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Air Force lawyer Mikey Weinstein (yeah it sounds nerdy, but he’s not) over at the Military Religious Freedom Foundation does yeoman work going after this excess proselytizing in the armed forces.

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So basically Charles Manson’s Helter Skelter updated to 2020. That’s actually kind of pathetic and boring, if you think about it.

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Manson without the cult women is even worst. Its full on incel.

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