"I frankly was surprised that there would be so many right-leaning people that like our band. I would have thought that we may have turned them off by now if they had paid attention."
It was a day of calls for unity among disparate groups — Boogaloo Bois, Proud Boys, local militias, and an independent Black Lives Matter gun club — that share no inherent politics except a profound, almost religious reverence for protecting their right to bear arms.
The FBI is reportedly searching for some 200 suspects in the armed insurrection at the Capitol. In Michigan, six people have already been arrested for taking part.
“Last Wednesday, an enormous mob surged out of control, menaced citizens, pushed through police lines onto city hall steps, and blocked traffic on Broadway and the Brooklyn Bridge. But uniformed cops stood by, smiling — for the marauders were fellow cops, thousands of them”
