Monday, November 09, 2020

https://news.yahoo.com/2-suspected-qanon-supporters-were-192804235.html

Rachel E. Greenspan
,INSIDER•November 9, 2020

Two men were arrested and charged with carrying a firearm without a license and carrying a firearm on public streets after authorities discovered an SUV full of firearms outside a Philadelphia ballot-counting center Thursday.

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner said in a press release on Friday that the two men, Joshua Macias and Antonio Lamotta, had parked their Hummer outside the Philadelphia Convention Center, where election officials continued counting ballots in the days after the election.

Numerous viral tweets showed the truck adorned with a QAnon sticker and an American flag, and a QAnon hat visible through the windshield. The vehicle also had a "WWG1WGA" sticker on its back windshield, which stands for the movement's slogan, "Where we go one, we go all."

Krasner confirmed at a Friday press conference that the vehicle belonged to the two men, NBC News reported.

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WHYY, NPR's affiliate outlet in Philadelphia, reported that Lamotta was a member of a far-right militant group called the Virginia Armed Patriots.

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Philadelphia authorities were alerted to the truck by the FBI field office in Norfolk, Virginia, which had received a tip about the men, Philadelphia Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw said at Friday's press conference.

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QAnon supporters have been linked to several incidents of violence since the conspiracy theory's creation in 2017 and the FBI warned in 2019 that the group could pose a domestic terrorism threat.

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