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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/06/12/i-became-unreasonable-bloody-message-scrawled-on-car-at-ben-lomond-ambush/"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/06/12/i-became-unreasonable-bloody-message-scrawled-on-car-at-ben-lomond-ambush/</font></a></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...<span style="background-color: rgb(251, 251, 251);">&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(251, 251, 251);">Carrillo, 32, has been</span><span style="background-color: rgb(251, 251, 251);">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://who%20shot%20a%20federal%20officer%20in%20oakland%2C%20a%20law%20enforcement%20source%20confirmed%20thursday/" style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-bottom: 1px dotted var(--primary); border-left: 0px; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">charged with 19 felonies including murder</a><span style="background-color: rgb(251, 251, 251);">&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(251, 251, 251);">in Saturday’s ambush, according to a 14-page indictment filed in the Superior Court of Santa Cruz. He is also a suspect in the fatal shooting May 29 of a federal officer in Oakland, a law enforcement official confirmed to the Mercury News.</span></font></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: rgb(251, 251, 251);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Before he was arrested in Ben Lomond,&nbsp;<b>Carrillo scrawled the word “boog” and the phrases “I became unreasonable” and “stop the duopoly” in blood on the hood of a car</b>, NBC News and other media have reported.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: rgb(251, 251, 251);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Boog” is shorthand for the Boogaloo, a libertarian anti-government movement that claims to be preparing for a civil war in the United States.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“I became unreasonable” has become a meme in Boogaloo social media. It refers to a statement by Marvin Heemeyer, an icon in extremist anti-government groups because of the 2004 rampage in which he bulldozed 13 buildings in a Colorado mountain town over&nbsp; a zoning dispute. Heemeyer — aka “Killdozer” — fatally shot himself when the heavily armored bulldozer became stuck in the basement of a store he was destroying. A note he left behind included the line,<b>&nbsp;“I was always willing to be reasonable until I had to be unreasonable.”</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><span style="background-color: rgb(251, 251, 251);">“Stop the duopoly,” referring to the dominance of the Republican and Democratic parties, is a slogan frequently pushed by third-party and&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">libertarian</span><span style="background-color: rgb(251, 251, 251);">candidates.</span></b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: rgb(251, 251, 251);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A former friend of Carrillo’s, Justin Ehrhardt,<a href="https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/06/11/santa-cruz-and-oakland-police-killings-officially-linked-suspect-in-deputy-ambush-also-believed-to-be-behind-federal-cops-death/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-bottom: 1px dotted var(--primary); border-left: 0px; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">&nbsp;told the Mercury News</a>&nbsp;that the suspect considered himself a libertarian and had been sharing Boogaloo memes on his Facebook account.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: rgb(251, 251, 251);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the attack Saturday,&nbsp; Santa Cruz County sheriff’s Sgt. Damon Gutzwiller was killed and Deputy Alex Spencer was critically wounded, hit by shrapnel as the suspect fled, the indictment and media accounts said.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: rgb(251, 251, 251);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Other charges against Carrillo included detonating pipe bombs, laying in wait to attack officers and assaulting a firefighter and three other law enforcement officers, the indictment said.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: rgb(251, 251, 251);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Carrillo was an active-duty sergeant at Travis Air Force Base and&nbsp; a member of the 60th Security Force Squadron.</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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