2 white supremacists tried to spark race war by soliciting murder and hate crimes on Telegram, feds say
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Two white supremacists hoping to start a race war were charged with leading a digital terrorist group on Telegram and directing followers to commit hate crimes, including killing federal officials, prosecutors said.
Dallas Humber, 34, of Elk Grove, California, and Matthew Allison, 37, of Boise, Idaho, are charged in the 15-count indictment with soliciting hate crimes, soliciting the murder of federal officials and conspiring to provide material support to terrorists, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of California said in a statement Monday.
Federal prosecutors allege Humber and Allison are leaders of the “Terrorgram Collective,” which authorities described as a “transnational terrorist group.”
Humber and Allison were arrested Friday, prosecutors said.
According to the indictment, which was unsealed Monday, the defendants’ terrorist group operated on the digital messaging platform Telegram. The group promoted white supremacist “accelerationism”: “an ideology centered on the belief that the white race is superior; that society is irreparably corrupt and cannot be saved by political action; and that violence and terrorism are necessary to ignite a race war and accelerate the collapse of the government and the rise of a white ethnostate,” prosecutors said.
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