DOJ charges leaders of white supremacist Terrorgram chat group accused of encouraging hate crimes, murders [Video]

Federal prosecutors on Monday announced charges against two people for their alleged involvement in a white supremacist Telegram group that was used to spread hateful content and stir up a race war.

Dallas Humber, 34, of Elk Grove, California, and Matthew Allison, 37, of Boise, Idaho, are charged with a 15-count indictment for soliciting hate crimes, soliciting the murder of federal officials, and conspiring to provide material support for terrorists, the Department of Justice announced in a press release.

Law enforcement officials arrested Humber and Allison on Friday, the DOJ said.

According to the indictment, Humber and Allison were leaders of the “Terrorgram Collective,” a transnational terrorist group that operated on Telegram.

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Federal prosecutors say the channel was used to promote “white supremacist accelerationism” and the idea that violence and terrorism were “necessary to ignite a race war and accelerate the collapse …