This is Popular Front, a podcast focused on the niche details of modern warfare and underreported conflict with me Jake Hanrahan. In this episode we'll be speaking to independent investigative journalist Ali Winston

and he's going to be speaking about the Buglew copers. Now if you don't already know we have done an

episode about the Bugaloo boys the right-wing extremist libertarian disconnected

decentralized movement in the US

So definitely check that out, but if you can't be bothered essentially the bugloos are as I said a right-wing

Libertarian kind of anti-state extremist faction within radical politics in the US.

Two of them killed two police officers Ali's going to be talking all about it.

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So Ali, we're gonna be speaking about the Bugaloo boys, right, but specifically guys that actually did what a lot of Bugloos say they want to do. They killed a cop. Tell us about this. When did all this happen?

And so earlier this year in the summer,

right around late May

when the George Floyd protests were just ripping through the country,

there was an incredibly visceral reaction to this man's

murder that you know eight minutes of him just be having his the life pressed out of him

by this cop's neck. There was an enormous reaction through the country and there were protests from coast to coast

Very very very chaotic in some cases they got quite violent in Minnesota, they, where the murder happened, you know, there were these

massive crowds, there were these scenes of, you know, the third precinct in Minneapolis got

torched, got lit on fire.

But you know there were at the Minnesota rallies.

I don't know if people remember this at this point, but there were shots fired, like quite a few shots fired at police during those evenings.

That only came out later, right? It only came out, well, you know, watching at the time and the kind of the fog of war on social media, you could see there were reports of shots fired those nights there were also reports

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