4 members of Violent White Supremacist Group face charges of rioting, according to federal authorities
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4 members of Violent White Supremacist Group face charges of rioting, according to federal authorities
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4 members of Violent White Supremacist Group face charges of rioting, according to federal authorities
Federal authorities announced charges of rioting against four members of the Rise Above Movement, a violent group of white supremacists based in California. The charges are related to assaults carried out at protest demonstrations in California and Charlottesville, Virginia.
The charges against four men, Robert Rundo, Robert Boman, Tyler Laube and Aaron Eason, arrive weeks later. Four other members or associates of the Rise Above Movement were accused on charges of rioting in Virginia, accused of participating in violent assaults during the infamous "Unite the Right" demonstration in the summer of 2017. Only Rundo, Boman and Laube had been arrested until Wednesday afternoon.
The four men indicted in Virginia have not filed a lawsuit in the case.
ProPublica and Frontline have been reporting on the Rise Above Movement since the end of 2017, and the US attorney. UU In Virginia he pointed out that work.
The government accusations, published Wednesday against the four men, are presented in a criminal complaint signed by an FBI agent who specializes in national terrorist groups.
"Through my training and experience," the agent wrote, "I am familiar with the methods of operation of terrorist organizations, including the use of social networks to communicate with respect to the coordination of strategic ideological objectives, to recruit and radicalize individuals. and coordinate violent extremist activities. "
The complaint then states that the four men, as part of the Rise Above Movement, planned and carried out attacks in three cities in California and in Charlottesville in 2017.
"The defendants used the Internet to coordinate combat training in preparation for events," the complaint states, "to organize the trip to events, coordinate attendance at events and celebrate their acts of violence to recruit members for the event. future". events. "
Rundo, one of the men arrested this week, had been identified by ProPublica and Frontline as the group's founder. He is a native of New York City who had deepened his inclinations of white supremacy during a period in the New York State Prison.
The complaint states that the researchers used the social networks and private communications of the men, as well as videos and other material created by the group itself, to document specific acts of violence in Huntington Beach, San Bernardino and Berkeley, all in California, as well as as in Charlottesville. .
In Huntington Beach, for example, they accuse Laube of assaulting a journalist at the rally; Rundo and Boman are also identified as having beaten, kicked or otherwise assaulted people at the rally on March 25, 2017.
It was not clear on Wednesday if the four most recently accused men had hired lawyers, and could not be contacted quickly for comment.
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