Three far-right activists were indicted on Wednesday (June 3rd) in Las Vegas for inciting violence during peaceful protests sparked by the death of George Floyd, whom they wanted to use to spread disorder, local officials said.
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According to the services of the Nevada federal prosecutor, Nicholas Trutanich, the three men belonged to the movement "Boogaloo" , "a term used by the extremists who promote the civil war and the fall of the company" , and were in particular in possession of a Molotov cocktail. " Violent actors hijacked peaceful protests across the country, including Nevada, exploiting the real and legitimate anger aroused by Mr. Floyd's death in the service of their extremist agendas," prosecutor Trutanich said in a statement.
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Stephen T. Parshall, 35, Andrew Lynam, 23, and William L. Loomis, 40, all live in Las Vegas where they were arrested on May 30 by an FBI-led counterterrorism unit, police federal government. According to the American media, far-right activists, sometimes heavily armed, have infiltrated numerous demonstrations organized for a week to protest against the death of George Floyd and more generally police violence and racial discrimination.
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Many of these activists claim to be part of the “Boogaloo” movement and have adopted, among other things, Hawaiian shirts as a sign of recognition. Experts from these groups, cited in particular by the Washington Post, question the role that some of these activists could have played in the outbreak of the violence that has engulfed dozens of American cities in recent days.
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