antifainternational:

 Hey, remember earlier this year when Trump & his 70 million fascist followers were losing their shit about “antifa riots?”  WELL GUESS WHAT?

Story highlights:

-“’We haven’t seen any trend of antifa folks who were involved here in the criminal activity or violence,’ said Michael Paul, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Minneapolis Field Office.’

-”The only group mentioned in court documents by name is the Boogaloo Bois, and even that is a loosely connected network of people who trend far-right, espouse anti-police, anti-government ideology and can often be identified by their Hawaiian shirts and assault rifles.”

-”In Ramsey County, prosecutors have filed at least 75 charges for burglary and property damage crimes stemming from the riots, and none mention “antifa,” said spokesman Dennis Gerhardstein.”

-”22-year-old Benjamin Ryan Teeter from North Carolina arrived in Minneapolis, responding to a call to arms from the Boogaloo Bois, a group intent on inciting an American civil war. Teeter pleaded guilty on Wednesday to attempting to sell weapons to Hamas after the riots to help fund a training ground for the Boogaloo Bois. Court documents show Teeter talked openly during the riots about wanting to run police out of town and replace their forces, to launch attacks on police, steal bombs from the National Guard Armory and to assassinate a white supremacist while his friends recorded”

-”Three Boogaloo Bois have been charged in acts in Minnesota stemming from the Floyd unrest, including Ivan Harrison Hunter, a 26-year-old from Boerne, Texas, who claims to be the leader of the Boogaloo Bois there. Hunter, wearing a skull mask and tactical gear, fired 13 shots into the flaming police precinct with people still inside after Robinson and the others started it on fire, according to charges. Hunter bragged on Facebook about his role in the riots, posting, ‘I helped the community burn down that police station,’ and that ‘BLM protesters in Minneapolis loved me,’ according to charges.”

-”Aside from Hunter, Teeter and one man with an Iowa address charged for illegal gun possession, the only other person from outside of Minnesota charged in relation to the riots is Matthew Rupert, of Galesburg, Ill. The court documents do not suggest he is part of any sophisticated radical organization. When the riots began, Rupert posted on Facebook his intentions to travel to Minneapolis to “start a riot,” inviting any “goons” who wanted to join.”

Of course this all reinforces the Washington Post’s deep data dive in October that found that only 1.6% of the 7305 Black Lives Matter protests this summer resulted in people being injured; only 3.7% involved property damage or vandalism and that arrests were made at just 5% of the protests.  It also lines up with the revelation that the person who kicked off property damage at Minneapolis’ George Floyd protests - nicknamed “Umbrella Man” - was a 32-year-old member of a white supremacist gang.