A right-wing extremist shot up a Minneapolis police precinct during a BLM protest and screamed 'Justice for Floyd!' prosecutors say

• A member of the right-wing extremist group "Boogaloo Bois" shot 13 rounds at the Minneapolis Police Department's Third Precinct amid protests in the wake of the killing of George Floyd, according to a federal complaint cited by the Star Tribune on Friday. 

• Texas resident Ivan Harrison Hunter, 26, was charged with interstate travel with intent to incite, organize, or aid or abet the participation of a riot, according to the federal complaint.

• Around two weeks after the shooting, Hunter posted on Facebook that he "helped the community burn down that police station in Minneapolis," according to the complaint.

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A member of the right-wing extremist group "Boogaloo Bois" shot 13 rounds at a Minneapolis police department with an AK-47 style gun and yelled "Justice for Floyd" during protests in the wake of the killing of George Floyd in May, according to a federal complaint cited by the Star Tribune on Friday.

Texas resident Ivan Harrison Hunter, 26, a self-proclaimed member of the Boogaloo Bois, was charged with interstate travel with intent to incite, organize, or aid or abet the participation of a riot, according to the federal complaint.

At the end of May, as protests against the killing of Floyd swept the nation, 30-year-old Michael Solomon and 22-year-old Benjamin Teeter, who both claimed to be members of the far-right extremist "Boogaloo Bois," made public posts on Facebook that called the Boogaloo Bois to action, according to the federal complaint. Solomon and Teeter face terrorism charges for conspiring and attempting to support Hamas, a designated foreign terrorist organization, according to the Justice Department last month. 

"Lock and load boys. Boog flags are in the air, and the national network is going off," Teeter posted on Facebook. Hunter exchanged messages with Solomon and Teeter and communicated he was leaving Texas to head over to Minneapolis, according to the complaint.

In Minneapolis, Hunter, wearing a skull mask, opened fire at the Minneapolis Police Department's Third Precinct while people were in the building and yelled "Justice for Floyd!" the complaint said.

After returning to Texas, Austin police stopped Hunter's pick-up truck near a local protest for Floyd, for making multiple traffic violations, according to the complaint.

During the traffic stop, they saw Hunter carried six loaded magazines for an AK-47 style assault rifle, and two other men in the car also were armed as well, the complaint said. Although Hunter denied ownership of the weapons, he voluntarily told local police officers he was "the leader of the Boogaloo Bois in South Texas and that he was present in Minneapolis when the Third Precinct was set on fire," the complaint said. The officers seized the weapons and ammunitions but the three men were released from the scene, according to the complaint.

Days after the traffic stop, FBI agents became aware of Hunter's exchanges with another Boogaloo Bois member Steven Carillo, who in June was charged for the murder of two California officers.

In early June, Hunter also posted on Facebook, "I helped the community burn down that police station in Minneapolis," according to the complaint.

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