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If there has been a silver lining in the January 6 insurrection, it would be this: Law enforcement officials finally appear to be taking far-right extremist criminal behavior seriously. That s become abundantly clear in the wave of arrests of multiple extremists in the weeks following, not all of whom are connected to the attack on the Capitol.
The past week has been especially eventful: A live-streaming white supremacist fond of threatening strangers online was arrested in Florida on a weapons charge. A member of the Proud Boys was arrested in Philadelphia for harassing a community organizer. And even more Capitol insurgents were placed under arrest, including a former State Department aide and Donald Trump appointee.
Boell has been charged with misdemeanor counts of terroristic threats and harassment.
The Proud Boys considers itself a men s organization with Western chauvinist ideals, but it has been designated as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. The group s leaders often use misogynistic, anti-Semitic, anti-Muslim and white nationalist rhetoric.
Boell s alleged messages to the victim were quoted in part by prosecutors. Walked all threw Philly tonight u fat b .. Antifa is done in Philly f around u fat b and u will find out, Boell allegedly wrote. Go report me call the cops. F u im a ghost.