All posts tagged "Militia Groups"

A former Proud Boys leader said he has received death threats after reports that he joined ICE, according to a Newsweek report Thursday.

Enrique Tarrio, who previously led the far-right, male-only militia group, told the outlet he was considering legal action after media outlets reported on an alleged database leak and published his name. He said he was not employed by ICE, although he said he would "love" to be a federal agent and could "do with the $50,000," referring to the bonus ICE agents are promised when they sign on.

"I've been getting a lot of f------ death threats because of this stupid troll, and it's not just a troll: The media—I'm using that term loosely—the media outlet NowThis actually went ahead and published like this, this campaign that says that I'm some sort of f------ ace agent without even asking me, without even contacting me for a comment," Tarrio said. ...

A special forces soldier turned motivational speaker who led a civilian disaster response to Hurricane Helene last fall, generating an Army investigation into whether he was leading an armed militia group, is running for Congress in North Carolina.

In the final stretch of the 2024 presidential campaign, Adam R. Smith’s Savage Freedoms Relief Operations won praise from then-presidential candidate Donald Trump, as he sought to discredit federal disaster response efforts under then-President Joe Biden.

But as reported by Raw Story, Smith’s effort, part of a surge of armed civilians, many with military experience, also contributed intentionally or not to a climate of intimidation that led to the evacuation of a state medical assistance team including contract workers from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and the investigation by U.S. Army Special Operations Command....

NAIROBI — Kenyan troops have crossed the border into war-torn Somalia to attack Islamist Shebab rebels they accuse of being behind several recent kidnappings of foreigners, Kenyan officials said on Sunday.