The FBI has released video and audio showing two members of the white supremacist group “The Base” orchestrating terror attacks at a pro-gun rally in Virginia, and plotting a mass killing of black people, ABC News reports.
In the newly released tapes, obtained by ABC, Patrik Mathews and Brian Lemley rare heard discussing killing Black people and law enforcement in addition to destroying critical infrastructure during an FBI recording of the two in Delaware in 2019.
The men discussed bringing down the U.S. government, collapsing the economy, and creating a racial civil war, according to the network.
“We need to go back to the days of … decimating Blacks and getting rid of them where they stand,” Mathews said in one recording. “If you see a bunch of Blacks sitting on some corner you f***ing shoot them.”
“While the Virginia situation is happening, make others thing happen. Derail some rail lines… shut down the rest of the rods. You can kick off the economic collapse of the US within a week,” he said, according to the network.
“I mean, even if we don’t win, I would still be satisfied with a defeat of the system … and whatever was to come in its place would be preferable than what there is now,” Lemley said in one recording, according to ABC. “And if it’s not us, then you know what, we still did what we had to do.”
Both men were sentenced last month to nine years in jail after a Maryland judge applied a “terrorism” enhancement to their sentences. U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang claimed that the “virulence” and “passion” to murder lawmakers and take down the government was clear in recorded conversations.
The FBI recordings also revealed the two men had wanted to free mass murderer Dylann Storm Roof from jail and kill a Virginia lawmaker, according to the report.
Watch the report below from ABC News:
