California Man Sentenced to Life for 'Boogaloo Movement' Killing of Federal Security Guard

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California Man Sentenced to Life for 'Boogaloo Movement' Killing of Federal Security Guard
A Northern California man was sentenced to life in prison Friday for his role in the shooting death of a federal security guard and wounding of another

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/california/articles/2024-03-15/california-man-sentenced-to-life-for-boogaloo-movement-killing-of-federal-security-guard

By Associated Press March 15, 2024, at 4:07 p.m.


OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A Northern California man who was part of the loosely organized anti-government “ boogaloo movement ” was sentenced to life in prison Friday for his role in the shooting death of a federal security guard and wounding of another.

Robert Allen Justus was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, the Bay Area News Group reported.

Justus was convicted last year of murder and attempted murder for driving a van while his accomplice, Steven Carrillo, opened fire at a guard station at the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building in Oakland in May 2020.


David Patrick Underwood was killed and his partner was wounded.

Prosecutors said both Justus and Carrillo, a U.S. Air Force sergeant at the time, had ties to the far-right movement and hatched the plan to target the guards the day before.
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Who Are Boogaloos, Who Were Visible at the Capitol and Later Rallies?

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2021/01/27/who-are-boogaloos-who-were-visible-capitol-and-later-rallies


January 27, 2021


Among the most visible ideological adherents at state capitol protests after Jan. 6 and in Richmond, Virginia, on Jan. 18 for pro-Second Amendment rallies were people involved with the boogaloo movement, easily recognizable in most cases because of Hawaiian-themed shirts and masks along with their weapons, signatures of boogaloo followers. The shirts are a reference to “big luau,” which is an adaptation of the word “boogaloo.”

Following the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol that resulted in five deaths, large swaths of the American right have continued to falsely claim that former President Trump won the election and that President Joe Biden and the Democratic Party “stole” it.

Right-wing protests were also slated for state capitols the weekend of Jan. 17, and boogaloo adherents (self-proclaimed “boogaloo boys”) were among those either planning the protests or planning to go.


However, as a result of the events of Jan. 6, state capitols and the U.S. Capitol are under heightened security and tech companies have finally deplatformed a number of groups, individuals and even whole social media apps where conspiracies, mis- and disinformation and violent rhetoric have been spreading for years. This rhetoric was amplified by GOP officials, allies and Trump himself.

The deplatforming and increased media and security scrutiny on right-wing groups after the attempted coup thus put a damper on right-wing events scheduled for Jan. 17, but nonetheless, there were still a few who showed up at sparsely attended state capitol rallies, and among those who did were boogaloo followers, perhaps most visible in Richmond, Virginia, on Jan. 18 for “Lobby Day” – in support of the Second Amendment. Last year, the event drew thousands of gun advocates; this year, maybe a couple of hundred.

Regardless, rallies and protests have continued across the country in support of false claims that the election was stolen.......................................


Boogaloo boys
Armed "boogaloo boys" stand holding a flag in front of the New Hampshire Capitol in Concord on Jan. 17 during a nationwide protest called by antigovernment and far-right groups supporting outgoing President Donald Trump and his claim of electoral fraud in the 2020 presidential election. (Photo by Joseph Prezioso/AFP via Getty Images)