According to prosecutors, Carrillo and an alleged accomplice, Robert Alvin Justus Jr., were looking to use the cover of protests in response to the police killing of George Floyd when they traveled to Oakland on May 29, 2020, to target police.
“There is no evidence that these men had an intention to join the demonstration in Oakland,” the FBI’s Jack Bennett said at a June 2020 news conference. “They came to Oakland to kill cops.”
Carrillo is linked with the extremist movement known as boogaloo, whose members expect, and are seeking to provoke, a second civil war. In recent years, boogaloo members have looked at mass protests and civil unrest as an opportunity to cause chaos and prompt violence, according to federal officials
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