Proud Boys leader Joe Biggs fed FBI agents information on antifa, was cozy with Oregon cops

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Proud Boys leader Joe Biggs fed FBI agents information on antifa, was cozy with Oregon cops

Mar 31, 2021 2:12pm Eastern Daylight Time by David Neiwert, Daily Kos Staff

https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2021/3/31/2023785/-Proud-Boys-leader-Joe-Biggs-fed-FBI-agents-information-on-antifa-was-cozy-with-Oregon-cops

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While the aftermath of the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol insurrection made clear to everyone what reporters and other observers had long been saying—namely, that American law enforcement had treated the Proud Boys and other far-right street-brawling cohorts with kid gloves—the details of the relationship between those groups and authorities are still murky. But the attorney for Joe Biggs, one of the Proud Boys currently facing conspiracy charges in the Jan. 6 siege, helped shed some light on that matter this week.

The FBI and other police agencies routinely sought Biggs’ advice, according to a Monday court filing by John Hull, Biggs’ attorney. The revelation raises questions not just for federal authorities now investigating some of these men, but for law enforcement agencies in Oregon and elsewhere who, according to Hull, had similar arrangements with Biggs.

After an FBI agent contacted Biggs in late July 2020 and he met with two agents at a restaurant, the filing claims, Biggs agreed to feed the agency information about antifascist activists, both in Florida and elsewhere. Hull, who is petitioning a judge to keep Biggs out of jail pending trial, said the agents wanted to know what he was “seeing on the ground.” Afterward, an agent asked follow-up questions in a series of phone calls, and Biggs answered them.

“They spoke often,” added Hull.

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1. That would be AFTER Boogaloo Bois murdered 3 cops.

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3. I don't remember that. Where?

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4. Here's link

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-06-17/far-right-boogaloo-boys-linked-to-killing-of-california-lawmen-other-violence

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/15/boogaloo-killing-facebook-dave-patrick-underwood-police

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8. I missed that somehow. Thanks for posting.

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10. They also set a Minneapolis police station on fire

‘Boogaloo Boi’ charged in fire of Minneapolis police precinct during George Floyd protest

A rightwing extremist boasted of driving from Texas to Minneapolis to help set fire to a police precinct during the George Floyd protests, federal prosecutors said.

US attorney Erica MacDonald said on Friday that she had charged Ivan Harrison Hunter, a 26-year-old Texas resident, with traveling across state lines to participate in a riot. The charges are the latest example of far-right extremists attempting to use violence to escalate national protests against police brutality into an uprising against the government, and even full civil war.

The case also reveals the extent of the coordination between violent members of the nascent far-right “Boogaloo Bois” movement operating in different cities across the country.

According to the criminal complaint against Hunter, on 26 May, as intense protests broke out in Minneapolis over the killing of George Floyd by a city police officer, a “Boogaloo Boi” based in Minnesota posted a public Facebook message: “I need a headcount.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/23/texas-boogaloo-boi-minneapolis-police-building-george-floyd

They were also involved in the plot to kidnap Governor Whitmer.

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5. The attacks left two dead and injured three others.

2020 boogaloo killings

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_boogaloo_killings

In late May and early June 2020, two ambush-style attacks occurred against security personnel and law enforcement officers in California. The attacks left two dead and injured three others.

The attacks began on May 29, when a drive-by shooting occurred in front of a federal courthouse in Oakland, resulting in the death of a security officer contracted with the Federal Protective Service. Over a week later on June 6, Santa Cruz County sheriff's deputies were shot at and also attacked with improvised explosive devices; one of them died as a result.

U.S. Air Force sergeant Steven Carrillo was arrested soon after the second attack. A second suspect, Robert Justus, surrendered to authorities five days later. The FBI indicated that Carrillo was associated with the boogaloo movement, a loosely organized American far-right anti-government extremist movement whose participants say they are preparing for a second civil war. Carrillo used the George Floyd protests as a cover to attack police officers, according to the FBI. A white van owned by Carrillo contained a ballistic vest with a patch bearing boogaloo symbolism. Carrillo is alleged to have written "boog" and the phrase "I became unreasonable" (a popular meme among boogaloo groups) in his own blood on the hood of a vehicle he hijacked. According to federal authorities, the suspects were motivated by the boogaloo movement's ideology, and allegedly intended to spread its extremist views and start a race war

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7. Thanks. So sad.

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9. yw, and yes, it is a tragedy, another white power murder spree

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2. Yeah - good luck finding the "leaders" of the "antifa" movement

I cannot believe the Feds bought this mularkey.

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6. As if he knew anything factual about antifa.

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11. So Biggs and proud OF WHAT EXACTLY boy Enrique Tarrio have *both*

had chats with the FBI, well well

If I was a pb I'd be thinkin hmmmmmm (as I await sentencing for my part in the Jan 6 insurrection).....hmmmmmm

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12. Fed FBI agents lies on antifa