Anti-government protester carrying backpack full of commercial-grade smoke bombs is arrested on terrorism hoax charges at Black Lives Matter demo

Tuesday, July 12, 2016
By Paul Martin

Brandon Lara, 24, was stopped because he looked suspicious, said police
He had a bandana over his face and a backpack across his chest like a gun
Police found eight commercial-grade smoke bombs that look like dynamite
They said Lara claimed to be part of the ‘Sovereign Citizen’ movement

By CHRIS KITCHING
DAILYMAIL.COM
12 July 2016

Police in Oklahoma City have charged a 24-year-old man who they say planned to cause panic at a peaceful Black Lives Matter protest, where he was arrested with eight smoke bombs that look like sticks of dynamite.

Brandon Lara was stopped at Sunday’s protest after police officers spotted him in the crowd with a bandana over his face and backpack across his chest in a suspicious manner, said police Capt Paco Balderrama.

Lara, who claimed to be part of the anti-government ‘Sovereign Citizen’ movement, which is recognized as a domestic terror threat by the FBI, was arrested on terrorism hoax charges after police found commercial-grade smoke bombs in the backpack, said Balderrama.

Police claim Lara planned to set off the smoke bombs to cause chaos at the protest, which was attended by more than 2,000 people, and he was not at the event as a participant or to be sympathetic towards Black Lives Matter.

‘He was walking through a crowd wearing a hat, a bandana covering his face, sunglasses and a backpack which he was holding diagonally across his chest as if he were carrying a gun,’ Balderrama told the Edmond Sun, the newspaper in Lara’s hometown. ‘All of those things together made things a little bit suspicious.’

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