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Neo-Nazi group members linked to attack plot plead guilty
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https://apnews.com/article/canada-gun-politics-race-and-ethnicity-racial-injustice-5f84bae4c6b7b0858cf41f545c63a628
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Matthews and Lemley, who lived in Elkton, Maryland, discussed “the planning of violence” at the Richmond rally, where thousands of gun-rights activists later gathered peacefully to protest gun-control legislation, Justice Department prosecutors said in a court filing.
Investigators installed a closed-circuit television camera and microphone inside a Newark, Delaware, apartment that Mathews and Lemley shared for several months after Mathews left Canada. The surveillance equipment captured Lemley and Mathews discussing “the next Civil War” erupting in Virginia and talking about committing “targeted acts of violence,” prosecutors said in a Jan. 21 court filing.
“I need to claim my first victim,” Lemley said, according to prosecutors.
The talk of violence prompted Mathews to say, “I’m worried we’re going to become psychopaths,” prosecutors wrote.
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They were arrested in Jan. 2020