Ohio man who was part of ‘boogaloo’ movement sentenced to prison over threats to police

An Ohio man who was a member of the anti-government extremist “boogaloo” movement was sentenced to more than three years in prison Thursday for threatening to kill law enforcement officers, federal prosecutors said.

One of the threats Aron McKillips made online included a photo of him at his home pointing a rifle at a police officer parked down the street, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Ohio said in a statement.

McKillips, now 30, of Sandusky, was arrested and charged in 2022. A criminal complaint said he was a well-known member of the “Boogaloo Boys,” which is sometimes spelled “Boogaloo Bois.”

The movement says it wants a second civil war and advocates violence against law enforcement. People associated with it have been involved in threats to police or attacks on law enforcement, including the fatal shooting of a federal officer as the officer stood guard outside an Oakland, California, courthouse in 2020.

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