{"id":2944,"date":"2020-06-18T11:44:30","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T11:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2944"},"modified":"2020-06-18T11:44:30","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T11:44:30","slug":"the-boogaloo-movement-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2944","title":{"rendered":"The \u201cboogaloo\u201d \u201cmovement,\u201d explained"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> &#8221; Believers in boogaloo ideology \u2014 a focus on visible gun ownership, with some advocating for a violent civil war against the federal government \u2014 have shown up to protests in Minneapolis, Las Vegas, and other cities, sometimes wearing Hawaiian shirts (based on a movement in-joke) and carrying large guns.&#8221;<br>&#8230;<br>&#8220;members of the boogaloo movement are unlikely to be the majority of those arrested at either the protests or the violence. In Minneapolis,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Crosscut\/status\/1268307309437960192\" target=\"_blank\">Seattle<\/a>, Cleveland,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TexasTribune\/status\/1268183662476111874\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas<\/a>, Atlanta, and elsewhere, the majority of those arrested during the protests and violence haven\u2019t been outside agitators traveling the country to start fights and cause violence. Rather, they\u2019ve been people largely from the same places where they are arrested.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/6\/8\/21276911\/boogaloo-explained-civil-war-protests\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/6\/8\/21276911\/boogaloo-explained-civil-war-protests<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8221; Believers in boogaloo ideology \u2014 a focus on visible gun ownership, with some advocating for a violent civil war against the federal government \u2014 have shown up to protests in Minneapolis, Las Vegas, and other cities, sometimes wearing Hawaiian shirts (based on a movement in-joke) and carrying large guns.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;members of the boogaloo movement are unlikely to be the majority of those arrested at either the protests or the violence. In Minneapolis, Seattle, Cleveland, Dallas, Atlanta, and elsewhere, the majority of those arrested during the protests and violence haven\u2019t been outside agitators traveling the country to start fights and cause violence. Rather, they\u2019ve been people largely from the same places where they are arrested.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[890,889,854,772,872,362,856,847],"class_list":["post-2944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-arrests","tag-boogaloo","tag-floyd","tag-ideology","tag-looting","tag-protests","tag-riots","tag-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2945,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2944\/revisions\/2945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}