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.
