Prosecutors said alleged white supremacists who were arrested last week on a number of charges had expressed hope that violence at this week’s pro-gun rally at Virginia’s Capitol would start a civil war, said federal prosecutors in a court filing.
According to an Associated Press report, citing the court filing, a hidden camera captured members of a group known as The Base expressing their desires for war during the rally on Monday. Former Canadian Armed Forces reservist Patrik Jordan Mathews, 27, also said on video that he wanted to kill people, poison water supplies, and derail trains, prosecutors said.
