‘I felt hate more than anything’: How an active-duty airman tried to start a civil war
In an eight-day span, Air Force Sgt. Steven Carillo allegedly killed a federal security officer and wounded his partner outside a U.S. courthouse and ambushed and killed a California sheriff’s deputy and injured four other officers, federal authorities say. But that expression of rage marked the culmination of a long slide into extremism. (Santa Cruz Sheriff's Office via AP)
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It was 2:20 p.m. on June 6, 2020, and Steven Carrillo, a 32-year-old Air Force sergeant who belonged to the anti-government Boogaloo Bois movement, was on the run in the tiny mountain town of Ben Lomond, California.
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