The Justice Department said the FBI initiated the investigation into Solomon and Teeter during protests in Minneapolis after George Floyd’s death.
Two self-described members of the far-right group Boogaloo Bois have been charged with attempting to conspire and become “assets” for Hamas, the Justice Department said on Friday. Hamas is designated by the U. S. as a terrorist organization, and the Boogaloo Bois is a loosely-connected group of far-right individuals who espouse a violent, anti-government ideology. Michael Robert Solomon,30, and Benjamin Ryan Teeter,22, were taken into custody Thursday evening and made their first court appearance in Minneapolis on Friday. “Michael Solomon and Benjamin Teeter proclaim themselves to be members of the Boogaloo Bois, a group that espouses a violent ideology and an objective to overthrow the government. The defendants believed their anti-U. S. government views aligned with those of Hamas, a foreign terrorist organization, and actively developed plans to carry out violence in Minnesota and elsewhere,” U.
