Humboldt County Democrats Condemn Violence, Call for Reflection Following Utah Tragedy

Even assuming everything you said is correct (and I don’t believe it is), you failed to mention some pretty violent acts. Timothy McVeigh ring a bell?

I’ve listed a number of violent incidents tied to conservatives before but you just won’t give up this one side is the bad guy rhetoric so here:

How about this list:

List of Right-Wing Domestic Terror Incidents, 2017-2022

2022

Maryville, Tennessee, December 16, 2022. Edward Kelley of Maryville, Tennessee, and Austin Carter of Knoxville, Tennessee, were arrested in mid-December 2022 by FBI agents on conspiracy charges for an alleged plot to kill 37 law enforcement officers, including FBI agents who were investigating Kelley for his role in the January 6, 2021, Capitol storming in Washington, D.C. The pair also allegedly plotted to attack the local FBI office in Knoxville.
Colorado Springs, November 19, 2022. Anderson Lee Aldrich was charged with 317 crimes, including five counts of first-degree murder, for a November 19, 2022 shooting spree against an LGBTQ+ nightclub. Aldrich appears to have tried but failed to livestream the deadly attack. Some months before the attack, Aldrich had created a small 4chan-like website in which he “showcased” an accelerationist white supremacist video called “Wrong Target,” the purpose of which was to convince people to launch violent attacks against Jews, racial minorities and other targets.
New York, New York, November 19, 2022. A grand jury in New York City indicted Matthew Mahrer and Christopher Brown on conspiracy, threat and weapons charges following their arrest on November 19 as they tried to enter Penn Station with firearms, bulletproof vests and masks. Police suspect the pair was plotting to conduct a shooting at a synagogue. One of the two suspects, Brown, allegedly has a long history of white supremacist online postings.
San Francisco, California, October 28, 2022. David DePape invaded the home of then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in a self-described “suicide mission” to kidnap her and “break her kneecaps” to serve as an object lesson for other Democrats. Pelosi was not home at the time, but her husband, Paul Pelosi, was. DePape attacked Paul Pelosi with a hammer, seriously injuring him, but was quickly restrained by arriving police. DePape was a proponent of a variety of right-wing conspiracy theories ranging from election denial to QAnon. He has been charged with multiple federal and state counts related to the attack.
Warsaw, Missouri, October 7, 2022. Bryan C. Perry of Tennessee and Jonathan S. O’Dell of Missouri allegedly plotted to travel to Texas to shoot migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. Perry also allegedly talked about going to war against the government and left a telephone message at the office of Texas Governor Greg Abbott saying he was “co-founder of a militia.” When FBI agents arrived at O’Dell’s home, where he and Perry were staying before they left for Texas, Perry opened fire at the agents, hitting a vehicle but injuring no one. The two were subsequently arrested.
Kalamazoo, Michigan, July 31, 2022. On the afternoon of July 31, a masked man dressed in camouflage used a combustible log and fuel to set fire to a Planned Parenthood clinic in Kalamazoo. The exterior of the building was damaged but the interior escaped harm. Only a few days later, police arrested Joshua Brereton, charging him with arson. The criminal complaint stated that Brereton had posted a video to YouTube referring to abortion as “genocide” and encouraging others to “step out of your comfort zone” and join the fight. Brereton subsequently pleaded guilty to the arson attack and received a five-year sentence.
Struthers, Ohio, June 17, 2022. Alerted by the FBI, police in Struthers, Ohio, arrested a teenager livestreaming a video in which he allegedly announced he was going to kill his father and take his van, then shoot at Black people before conducting a mass shooting at a synagogue. Police found two handguns which had racist and antisemitic symbols and messages on them, as well as a document variously described as a journal and a manifesto. The teen admitted to police that he was a white supremacist. He has been charged with terrorist threats, domestic violence, inducing panic and threatening violence, and possessing criminal tools. Police believe the teenager was perhaps only minutes or hours away from carrying out his threats.
Brookhaven, New York, June 10, 2022. Matthew Belanger was arrested on Long Island in New York on weapons charges, but prosecutors say he was a white supremacist who, while serving as a Marine, plotted to attack a synagogue in New York, as well as to engage in homicide and sexual assault. The latter was allegedly an attempt to rape white women to increase the number of white children. He was discharged from the USMC in May 2021. Belanger was allegedly a member of the accelerationist white supremacist group Rapekrieg.
Casper, Wyoming, May 25, 2022. Lorna Roxanne Green allegedly broke into a building housing a not-yet-opened women’s health clinic in Casper, Wyoming and set fire to it, preventing the clinic—which would have provided abortions among its medical services—from opening. She was identified and arrested in March 2023.
Buffalo, New York, May 14, 2022. In an elaborately planned attack, white supremacist Payton Gendron opened fire at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, deliberately targeting Black people. His attack killed 10 people and wounded three more. His attack was modeled after previous accelerationist white supremacist terrorist attacks.

2021

Knoxville, Tennessee, December 31, 2021. A man whom authorities later identified as Mark Thomas Reno started a fire that destroyed a Planned Parenthood clinic in Knoxville, Tennessee. The arson attack was likely motivated by anti-abortion extremism. Reno previously was at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on January 6, 2021, though he did not enter. He was also responsible for a January 22, 2021, early morning shooting incident at the clinic, and subsequently fired shots at a federal building in Knoxville on July 3, 2022. He died in jail in August 2022. His role in the clinic attacks was revealed in October 2022.
Toledo, Ohio, October 31, 2021. An as-yet-unidentified person tried to set fire to a clinic in Toledo that provides abortions, using an accelerant to set fire to an exterior electrical box. Responding firefighters were able to put out the fire before it spread very far. The clinic, Capital Care, is Toledo’s only abortion clinic. The arsonist has yet to be found as of October 2023.
Austin, Texas, October 31, 2021. On Halloween, Franklin Barrett Sechriest committed an arson at an Austin synagogue, Congregation Beth Israel, that caused $25,000 in damage. Authorities say Sechriest had stickers with white supremacist propaganda and symbols in his possession, as well as journals containing racist and antisemitic writings. Sechriest was indicted in March 2022 on three federal civil rights violations. He pleaded guilty to a hate crime and arson in April 2023.
Austin, Texas, September 29, 2021. A man wearing a face mask and an American flag bandana threw a Molotov cocktail at the Democratic Party headquarters for Travis County, Texas, and left a note threatening the Democratic Party. The device did not fully ignite but did start a small fire. Several days later, police arrested Ryan Faircloth for the firebombing incident. According to law enforcement, Faircloth blamed the Democratic Party office for “a lot of the issues that he saw as problems with the country.” In January 2022, Faircloth pleaded guilty to arson and subsequently received a six-year sentence.
Raleigh, North Carolina, August 20, 2021. Federal authorities announced indictments against Paul Kryscuk, Liam Collins, Jordan Duncan and Joseph Maurino, charging them with conspiracy to damage the property of an energy facility in the United States. According to the indictment, the men (who formed a small group they referred to as BSN) researched a prior attack on a power grid and gathered information about various weapons, such as thermite, and targets. They also allegedly discussed assassinating people, including a governor, during the chaos caused by power outages. Collins and Kryscuk were former members of the white supremacist Iron March forum. A subsequent indictment also charged Justin Wade Hermanson on weapons charges. In March 2022, Kryscuk and Hermanson pleaded guilty to conspiracy; Maurino pleaded guilty in April 2023.
Atlanta, Georgia, July 30, 2021. Larry Edward Foxworth, a self-described white supremacist, conducted an attempted shooting spree from a vehicle against two convenience stores in an Atlanta suburb. Both stores had customers and staff inside when attacked, but luckily no one was hit. After his arrest, Foxworth confessed that he shot at the stores in an attempt to kill Black people and Arab people. Foxworth subsequently pleaded guilty to federal hate crime charges and received a 20-year sentence.
Hillsboro, Ohio, July 21, 2021. Federal authorities arrested self-described incel Tres Genco on federal hate crime and weapons charges for plotting a shooting spree aimed at sorority members at an Ohio university. Genco composed a manifesto in which he claimed he would “slaughter” women “out of hatred, jealousy and revenge.” Genco had previously been convicted in 2020 on state terroristic threat charges for the same incident and received a 17-month sentence. He pleaded guilty in October 2022 to one count of attempting to commit a hate crime involving an attempt to murder.
Sacramento, California, July 16, 2021. Federal authorities charged Ian Benjamin Rogers and Jarrod Copeland with conspiring to firebomb the Democratic Party’s state headquarters in Sacramento. Rogers was already in custody for threats he made in January against the governor and social media companies, as well as 28 counts of illegal weapons and explosives. When arrested, Rogers had five pipe bombs and dozens of weapons in his home and shop. Both men had ties to the “Three Percenter” wing of the militia movement. The two planned a series of attacks they hoped would mobilize people angry at Trump’s election loss. Both defendants pleaded guilty to conspiracy in 2022. In March 2023, Rogers received a 108-month sentence and Copeland a 54-month sentence.
Winthrop, Massachusetts, June 26, 2021. White supremacist Nathan Allen stole a truck and crashed it into a residence in Winthrop, Massachusetts. As people in the neighborhood responded, Allen walked by several white people to shoot two people of color, a man and a woman. He shot one victim seven times, including four times in the head, and the other victim three times in the back, killing both. Responding police shot and killed Allen. Subsequent searches revealed that Allen possessed considerable white supremacist literature as well as journals in which recorded his racist and antisemitic beliefs, including the idea that white people were superior “apex predators.” He also wrote that “whites in the US will snap and kill all the shitskins.”
Kerrville, Texas, May 30, 2021. Federal and local authorities arrested Coleman Thomas Blevins, a white supremacist from Kerr County, Texas, after determining that Blevins was “preparing to proceed” with a mass shooting targeting a local Walmart. However, as of this writing, prosecutors have only charged him with making a terrorist threat. Blevins is allegedly associated with an accelerationist white supremacist group called the Inject Division.
St. Cloud, Minnesota, April 17, 2021. Federal authorities arrested Michael Dahlager, a Minnesota adherent of the anti-government boogaloo movement, on a weapons charge after Dahlager allegedly told a confidential informant he was planning to attack law enforcement officers at the Minnesota Capitol on January 17, 2021. However, he abandoned the plot shortly before January 17, reportedly out of fear an informant had infiltrated his group. Later in 2021, Dahlager pleaded guilty to illegal possession of a machine gun and received a two-year sentence.
Fort Worth, Texas, April 8, 2021. In a sting operation, FBI agents arrested Seth Aaron Pendley on charges related to a plot to blow up Amazon data centers. Pendley, an anti-government extremist who posted on militia sites, hoped his actions would cause a government crackdown that would mobilize people finally to take action against what he termed the “dictatorship.” Pendley pleaded guilty in June 2021 and received a 10-year sentence.
Washington, D.C., January 6, 2021. On January 6, 2021, more than a thousand people stormed the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., intent on halting the congressional certification of the 2020 presidential election. Among them were several groups of people, including numerous members of the Proud Boys, the Oath Keepers, the Patriots 45 Maga Gang and militia members/Three Percenters who allegedly planned their actions in advance. In several different cases, federal authorities have indicted such people on multiple serious counts, including conspiracy and seditious conspiracy charges. Those convicted include the leader of the Proud Boys, Enrique Tarrio, and the leader of the Oath Keepers, Stewart Rhodes. In 2022, Joshua James, Brian Ulrich and William Todd Wilson, all Oath Keepers, pleaded guilty to seditious conspiracy charges. Later that year, a jury convicted Rhodes and another Oath Keepers leader of seditious conspiracy, and three other Oath Keepers of related charges; Rhodes was subsequently sentenced to 18 years in prison. In January 2023, four more Oath Keepers were convicted of seditious conspiracy and other charges. In May 2023, four Proud Boys, including Tarrio, were convicted of seditious conspiracy and other charges. A fifth was found guilty of other charges.

2020

Springfield, Massachusetts, December 28, 2020. In 2022, Federal prosecutors indicted Dushko Vulchev of Houlton, Maine, on federal hate crime charges for a 2020 arson that destroyed a predominantly Black church in Springfield, Massachusetts named after Martin Luther King, Jr. According to investigators, Vulchev displayed evidence of racism and white supremacy, including “White Lives Matter” memes, photos of Adolf Hitler and requests for help to “eliminate all Black people.” 
Bad Axe, Michigan, October 30, 2020. Four members of The Base, a neo-Nazi group, were arrested on state charges, including training with the intent of committing civil disorder, related to activities that included various potential terrorist plots, including attacking VICE News offices and ambushing and killing police officers. In August 2022, Justen Watkins, the leader of The Base, received a sentence of 56 months to 20 years. Two other defendants, Thomas Denton and Tristan Webb, also pleaded no contest to the charges against them. Denton was sentenced to a maximum of 48 months in prison, while Webb received a sentence of probation. Alfred Gorman pleaded guilty and also received a sentence of probation.
Munith, Michigan, October 7, 2020. Federal and state authorities in Michigan arrested 13 men associated with a militia cell called the Wolverine Watchmen on charges related to an alleged plot to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer, the governor of Michigan. Later, a 14th man was also arrested. Six face federal charges stemming from the case while the remaining eight face state charges. Some of the defendants were also associated with the anti-government extremist boogaloo movement. Two federal defendants pleaded guilty, while two others were acquitted at trial; the jury could not agree on the guilt of the remaining two. Those two defendants, Adam Fox and Barry Croft, Jr., were convicted in a second trial in 2022. The convicted federal defendants received sentences from four years up to 16 years (Fox) and nearly 20 years (Croft). Of the state defendants, three were acquitted while the other five pleaded guilty or were convicted in court.
Minneapolis, Minnesota, September 3, 2020. Federal agents arrested Benjamin Teeter and Michael Solomon, two adherents of the anti-government boogaloo movement, charging them with conspiring to provide material support to the terrorist group Hamas in order to get assistance for their own plans, which included targeting politicians and media members, a courthouse, monuments and a white supremacist group. In May 2021, Solomon pleaded guilty to conspiracy to provide material support and received a three-year sentence; Teeter similarly pleaded guilty and received a four-year sentence. 
Columbus, Ohio, August 1, 2020. Three accelerationist white supremacists were arrested in August 2020 on charges related to a plot to attack the power grid in hopes of starting a race war. The plot primarily took place in 2019-2020. Arrested were Christopher Brenner Cook, of Columbus, Ohio; Jonathan Allen Frost of Katy, Texas; and Jackson Matthew Sawall, of Oshkosh, Wisconsin. In February 2022, the three pleaded guilty to federal charges of conspiring to provide material support to terrorists. Cook subsequently received a 92-month sentence and Frost a 60-month sentence. Sawall has yet to be sentenced as of June 2023.
Vicenza, Italy, June 10, 2020. U.S. Army private and white supremacist Ethan Melzer was arrested at a military installation in Vicenza, Italy, charged on numerous counts related to a plot to have members of an occult white supremacist group, the Order of the Nine Angles, and the associated group RapeWaffen Division attack his military unit after it deployed to another country. Melzer was charged by the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, which handles such cases. In June 2022, Melzer pleaded guilty to attempting to murder military members, material support to terrorism and illegally transmitting national defense information. He was sentenced to 45 years in prison in March 2023.
Las Vegas, Nevada, May 30, 2020. Three men — Stephen Parshall, Andrew Lynam, and William Loomis — with ties to the anti-government boogaloo movement were arrested on conspiracy charges in Las Vegas for an alleged plot to use Molotov cocktails against police at a protest over the killing of George Floyd. They had also discussed firebombing a power substation and destroying government buildings. As of June 2023, the men have not yet seen trial for these charges, though Parshall was convicted and sentenced to 33 years in federal prison on charges related to child sexual exploitation in a second case that emerged from the first.
Oakland, California, May 29, 2020. On May 29, two men attacked security personnel outside a federal courthouse in Oakland, California in a drive-by shooting, killing Federal Protective Services officer David Patrick Underwood and wounding another. Subsequently arrested for the attack were Steven Carrillo and Robert Justus Jr., who were associated with the anti-government extremist boogaloo movement. Carrillo faces federal murder charges and Justus faces charges of attempted murder and aiding and abetting murder. Carrillo shot and killed a sheriff’s sergeant on June 6 when law enforcement attempted to arrest him for the earlier attack. In February 2022, Carrillo pleaded guilty to federal charges stemming from the initial attack and subsequently received a 41-year sentence. In August 2022, Carrillo received a life sentence without parole in state court after pleading guilty to the murder of the sheriff’s sergeant. In September 2023, Justus was convicted of murder and attempted murder.
Glendale, Arizona, May 20, 2020. Armando Hernandez, Jr. was arrested by Glendale, Arizona police on 16 criminal charges following a shooting at a shopping center that injured three people. Prosecutors have said Hernandez was an adherent of the misogynistic incel subculture and specifically targeted couples. In 2022, Hernandez pleaded guilty to multiple charges; he subsequently received a 44-year sentence.
Loveland, Colorado, May 1, 2020. Federal agents arrested anti-government extremist Bradley Bunn on explosives charges after discovering four pipe bombs at his home and the makings for more. According to investigators, Bunn intended to use the bombs against law enforcement. In March 2021, Bunn pleaded guilty to five federal explosives charges; in October 2021 he received a sentence of time served.
Cape Girardeau, Missouri, April 24, 2020. Authorities charged Nicholas Proffitt with multiple federal felony counts related to an arson at a mosque in Cape Girardeau. Proffitt, who appears to have considerable anti-Muslim animus, previously spent time in prison for felony vandalism against the same mosque in 2009, and similarly vandalized a mosque in Dearborn, Michigan in 2005. Proffitt pleaded guilty to hate crime and arson charges in December 2022. 
Texarkana, Texas, April 11, 2020. Police arrested boogaloo extremist Aaron Swenson following a car chase and brief standoff after he livestreamed himself saying he was going to “ambush and execute” a police officer. Swenson was convicted of attempted murder of a peace officer and in September 2021 received a 50-year sentence. 
Los Angeles, California, March 31, 2020. Eduardo Moreno, a former train engineer, deliberately drove a train at top speed in order to derail it near a U.S. Navy hospital ship providing medical assistance during the COVID-19 pandemic at the Port of Los Angeles. Moreno, influenced by QAnon conspiracy theories and believing the ship was there for sinister purposes, told authorities he wanted to “wake people up.” After pleading guilty to one count of committing a terrorist attack or other violence against railroad carriers and mass transportation systems, he was sentenced in April 2022 to three years in federal prison.
Belton, Missouri, March 24, 2020. White supremacist Timothy Wilson plotted to blow up a hospital caring for COVID-19 patients in the Kansas City area, wanting to cause mass casualties. He was killed in a shootout with the FBI as they attempted to arrest him.
Silver Creek, Georgia, January 15, 2020. Three members of The Base, a white supremacist group, were arrested in Georgia on charges related to a plot to murder people they thought were antifa activists. All three subsequently pleaded guilty. Michael John Helterbrand received a 20-year sentence, while Luke Austin Lane and Jacob Oliver Kaderli received six-year sentences.
Greenbelt, Maryland, January 14, 2020. Three members of the white supremacist group The Base, two from Maryland and one a Canadian national, (William Garfield Bilbrough IV, Brian Mark Lemley and Patrik Jordan Matthews) were charged with weapons violations and other offenses. The members discussed opening fire at a pro-gun rally in Virginia in order to sow chaos. They also plotted to target the speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates. All three pleaded guilty to various charges and received nine-year sentences (Lemley and Matthews) and a five-year sentence (Bilbrough).
Newark, Delaware, January 3, 2020. James Gulick was arrested for using a Molotov cocktail to firebomb a Planned Parenthood clinic in Newark, Delaware. He pleaded guilty in February 2021 to two charges of intention damage to a facility providing reproductive health services and to possession of an unregistered destructive device. He subsequently received a 26-month sentence.

2019

Gainesville, Georgia, November 19, 2019. Police arrested a teenage girl on charges of criminal intent to commit murder in connection with an alleged knife attack plot against a Black church in Gainesville, Georgia. The plot was inspired by Dylann Roof’s 2015 shooting spree in South Carolina. On two occasions, the girl went to the church armed with knives, but no one was there. In October 2020, the girl pleaded guilty to planning murders and was sentenced to juvenile detention until she turned 21.
Pueblo, Colorado, November 1, 2019. Federal authorities arrested white supremacist Richard Holzer on multiple charges related to a plot to blow up a synagogue in Pueblo, Colorado. Holzer pleaded guilty in October 2020 to hate crime and explosives charges; he subsequently received a sentence of more than 19 years in prison.
Independence, Kentucky, September 15, 2019. Daniel Kibler was arrested on terroristic threat charges for allegedly threatening to attack a Planned Parenthood clinic in Cincinnati, Ohio. Kibler had not merely made a threat but also reportedly constructed an incendiary device that police said he intended to throw at the building to set it on fire. He was also charged with possession of a destructive device and eight counts of wanton endangerment. The disposition of his case is not known.
Las Vegas, Nevada, August 8, 2019. White supremacist Conor Climo was arrested on a federal weapons charge in connection with a plot to attack several Las Vegas-area targets, including a Messianic church, an ADL office and an LGBTQ-friendly bar. Bomb-making materials were also found at his home. Climo pleaded guilty in February 2020 to one count of possessing bomb components and subsequently received a sentence of two years in prison. 
El Paso, Texas, August 3, 2019. White supremacist Patrick Crusius launched a shooting spree targeting Latinos at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, killing 22 people initially and injuring 24 more; in 2020 one of the injured died of wounds sustained in the attack, changing the death toll to 23 killed and 23 injured.
Poway, California, April 27, 2019. White supremacist John T. Earnest opened fire at a synagogue in Poway, California, killing one person and injuring three before fleeing. He was reportedly emulating white supremacist Brenton Tarrant’s killing spree in New Zealand in March 2019. In 2021, Earnest pleaded guilty to a 113-count indictment and received a sentence of life plus 30 years. See also: March 24, 2019 incident.
Escondido, California, March 24, 2019. White supremacist John T. Earnest set fire to a mosque in Escondido, California, leaving behind graffiti that referenced Brenton Tarrant’s white supremacist shooting spree in New Zealand earlier that month. People inside the mosque were able to put out the fire. See also: April 27, 2019, incident. 
Silver Spring, Maryland, February 15, 2019. Coast Guard lieutenant Christopher P. Hasson, a white supremacist, was arrested by federal authorities on weapon and drug charges in connection with a terrorist plot to attack politicians and media figures. In October 2019, Hasson pleaded guilty to four federal charges and subsequently received a sentence of more than 13 years in prison. 
Columbia, Missouri, February 10, 2019. A Planned Parenthood clinic in Columbia, Missouri, was set on fire. After an investigation, federal authorities arrested Wesley Brian Kaster, charging him with maliciously damaging by fire or explosive a building owned by an organization receiving federal funding. Kaster pleaded guilty to arson in November 2019 and subsequently received a five-year sentence.
Greece, New York, January 22, 2019. Four anti-Muslim extremists were arrested in New York on conspiracy, weapons and terrorism charges for a plot to use bombs to attack the Muslim community of Islamberg, New York. Arrested were Vincent Vetromile, Brian Colaneri, Andrew Crysel and an individual who was 16 at the time of his arrest. All four pleaded guilty in 2019; Crysel and Colaneri received sentences of four to 12 years in prison, while the other two received seven-year sentences. https://www.adl.org/resources/report/right-wing-extremist-terrorism-united-states It got too long so I cut it off. This doesn’t mean there aren’t bad deeds done by leftist, it means stop trying to pin all the ugly on leftists.