24 Facts About Boogaloo movement

Boogaloo movement, whose adherents are often referred to as boogaloo boys or boogaloo bois, is a loosely organized far-right anti-government extremist movement in the United States.

Boogaloo movement emerged on 4chan and subsequently spread to other platforms.

Individuals affiliated with the boogaloo movement have been charged with crimes, including the killings of a security contractor and a police officer, a plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, and incidents related to participation in the George Floyd protests.

Term boogaloo alludes to the 1984 sequel film Breakin' 2:Electric Boogaloo movement, which was derided by critics as a derivative rehash.

The boogaloo movement adopted its identity based on the anticipation of a second American Civil War or second American Revolution, which was referred to as "Civil War 2: Electric Boogaloo" and became popularly known among adherents as "the boogaloo".

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The boogaloo movement has created logos and other imagery incorporating igloo snow huts and Hawaiian prints based on these derivations.

The boogaloo movement has used imagery popular among the far-right such as the Pepe the Frog meme.

Newhouse identified the choice by adherents of the Boogaloo movement to provide armed protection to private businesses during anti-lockdown protests and George Floyd protests as evidence that the Boogaloo movement is right-wing, saying that leftists would not be likely to do the same as they are more likely to view large corporations as an integral component of capitalist exploitation.

The researchers have described the Boogaloo movement as having two wings: "one advocating for race war and one obsessed with societal breakdown and rebellion against the government".

MacNab, a George Washington University fellow researching anti-government extremist groups, has said that she does not agree with this characterization: "since the majority of participants were radicalized elsewhere prior to donning a Hawaiian shirt—either in anti-government militant groups such as the Three Percenters or the militias, or in white supremacy groups—the Boogaloo shouldn't be considered an independent movement at this time".

Boogaloo movement has attracted some active-duty members of the military and veterans.

Researchers at Network Contagion Research Institute and the Middlebury's CTEC both traced the origins of the boogaloo meme and the later movement based around it in part to the imageboard website 4chan, where the meme was often accompanied by references to "racewar" and "dotr" .

The boogaloo movement experienced a further surge in popularity following the lockdowns that were implemented to try to slow the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, and the Tech Transparency Project observed that the boogaloo groups appeared to be encouraged by then-President Trump's tweets about "liberating" states under lockdown.

Adherents of the boogaloo movement have been observed at pro-gun rights demonstrations, protests against COVID-19 lockdowns, and the George Floyd protests which began in May 2020 and continued through the year.

Believers in the Boogaloo movement can appear unexpectedly at events and protests initiated by others with apparently different affiliations.

On July 25,2020,28-year old Black Lives Matter protester Garrett Foster, who identified with the boogaloo movement and had expressed anti-racist, libertarian, and anti-police views, was shot and killed in an altercation with a motorist accelerating their vehicle into a crowd of protesters.

Groups belonging to the boogaloo movement organize on mainstream online platforms including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Reddit, in chat rooms on Discord and Telegram, and on more obscure platforms such as 4chan.

Online extremism researcher Megan Squire observed references to the boogaloo in white supremacist Telegram chat rooms in the summer of 2019, before the movement began to become popular on gun forums in September of the same year.

People affiliated with the boogaloo movement have been arrested and five deaths have been publicly linked to boogaloo rhetoric.

FBI linked the crimes to the boogaloo movement and said Carrillo and an accomplice used recent demonstrations against racial injustice as a cover to attack police.

Three boogaloo movement members pled guilty to federal charges in the aftermath of the George Floyd protests in Minneapolis that occurred in late May 2020.

Three men who identified themselves as members of the boogaloo movement were arrested on May 30,2020, on terrorism charges in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Daily Beast observed in an article published on October 9,2020, that four state and federal operations to arrest a total of sixteen individuals associated with the boogaloo movement had transpired over the previous seven days, including the arrests of the men involved in the plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Whitmer.

Supporters of the boogaloo movement were reportedly present and wore emblematic gear or symbols during the January 6,2021 storming of the United States Capitol.