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> Timothy McVeigh

Who did he work with again?

>>ta1771+(OP)
He had a couple of accomplices, but he was radicalised by the Waco fiasco and linked to what these days would be called the "milita movement".

>>pjc50+I3
And the even bigger fiasco of Ruby Ridge.

>>gadder+F5
So I had to refresh myself on the details of this via wikipedia, and with a 2020 eye it seems almost like the white version of complaints about police brutality per BLM.

- victim becomes a martyr despite being "no angel" (Weaver was a white supremacist, dealing in illegal firearms)

- initial involvement of law enforcement is entrapment (undercover ATF agents)

- lies by law enforcement ("the ATF filed the gun charges in June 1990. It claimed that Weaver was a bank robber with criminal convictions.[27] (Those claims were false: at that time Weaver had no criminal record. The 1995 Senate investigation found: "Weaver was not a suspect in any bank robberies.")

- basic cockups (court date mixup)

- absurdly long quasi-siege

- significantly lighter treatment and more investigation than similar fiascoes for nonwhite people (e.g. Breonna Taylor); the 2020 version of this would probably have just been to drive a MRAP through the shack and use the return fire as sufficient justification for the killings (see e.g. https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2011/08/31/actor-steve... )

- they shot the dog. They always shoot the dog

- attempt to prosecute sniper is met with sovereign immunity, case is dropped