Os "Boogaloos" - um movimento que complica as narrativas do que se está a passar nos EUA

Dude that came out with an AR-15 to the Protests quickly learned why we are screaming #BlackLivesMatter 😂 pic.twitter.com/WROiuu0I14

— A Black Socialist 🌹🏴‍☠️ (@SonOfAssata) June 4, 2020

[O tweet é provavelmente injusto, já que o tipo com a AR-15 provavelmente já era contra o estado policial antes]

Gun-toting members of the Boogaloo movement are showing up at protests (CNN):

Benjamin Ryan Teeter was at his home in Hampstead, N.C., when the call to action came. It was an alert from the heart of the raging protests in Minneapolis, posted on an online forum by a fellow member of the Boogaloo movement, a loosely knit group of heavily armed, anti-government extremists. (...)

After Teeter -- who goes by Ryan -- said he saw the online posting, he and a handful of other Boogaloo friends in the area mobilized. 

They grabbed their guns -- mostly assault rifles -- hopped into their vehicles, and made the 18-hour trek to Minneapolis. 

The Boogaloos are an emerging incarnation of extremism that seems to defy easy categorization. They are yet another confounding factor in the ongoing effort among local, state and federal officials to puzzle out the political sympathies of the agitators showing up to the mostly peaceful George Floyd rallies who have destroyed property, looted businesses, or -- in the case of the Boogaloos who descended on Minneapolis -- walked around the streets with assault rifles. (...)

Megan Squire, a computer science professor at Elon University in North Carolina who monitors online extremism, said the movement started in obscure online platforms

It "is now growing on mainstream platforms, and in this moment of protest it is starting to move offline," she said. "It resembles the militia movement that came before it, which has been well documented as a force for promoting violence."

Teeter, in an interview with CNN, said he identifies as an anarchist. His mission in Minneapolis, he said, was to protect protesters from police abuse and white supremacists, whom he deplores.

Também sobre este aparentemente estranho movimento, e o seu apoio aos protestos, The Boogaloo Movement Is Not What You Think, por Robert Evans e Jason Wilson, no bellingcat.