This was not a concocted plot by the FBI. These guys had a plan, did reconnaissance, acquired supplies. It's crazy how close they actually got before they were arrested, considering how early on the FBI knew about them. Affidavit with more info: https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2020/1...
What's crazy is it feels like no one's been keeping track of all the "Western chauvinist" violence in the past decade. Everything is pointing to some notion of a "last stand of the West" weird shit.
The Dayton, OH mass shooting[0]
The El Paso mass shooting[1]
The murder of an elderly Black man in Harlem as a prelude to mass murder of Black men with the express aim of inciting a race war[2]
diffrinse|5 years ago
The Dayton, OH mass shooting[0] The El Paso mass shooting[1] The murder of an elderly Black man in Harlem as a prelude to mass murder of Black men with the express aim of inciting a race war[2]
[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Dayton_shooting
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_El_Paso_shooting
[2]https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/23/nyregion/timothy-caughman...