Boogaloos have the best outfits...
"IN THE PAST COUPLE of weeks, following the killing of George Floyd, curiously dressed counter protesters have attended scattered demonstrations across the U.S. Often armed and disconcertingly garbed in “Magnum P.I.”-style floral Hawaiian shirts, these men and women have gathered on the fringes of gatherings and marches in states including Texas, Georgia and Pennsylvania.
Who are these people and why are they dressed like tropical vacationers heading into battle? Mark Pitcavage, a senior research fellow at the Center of Extremism at the
Anti-Defamation League based in Ohio, explained that deceptively cheery Hawaiian-style button-ups have come to signify
extremists who believe that a second American civil war—or “boogaloo”—is on the horizon. Sharing rhetoric with far-right sects like white supremacists, militia groups and anti-government ideologues, these boogalooers, or “boogaloo bois,’’ have at times been a very small, but disruptive presence at overwhelmingly peaceful protests."