What we know about Mark Domingo, the man arrested on suspicion of plotting a terrorist attack in Southern California

by three-reporter team @ Long Beach Press-Telegram, April 30

Filling in a lot of details here, including that he was drawn out and encouraged by a paid informant of the FBI on an internet forum, an entrapment type of thing:

A Plot in L.A. to Avenge the Christchurch Shooting

By Dana Goodyear @ NewYorker.com, May 3, 2019

As a summary she also gets into the absurdities and ironies, how the white supremacist group considered it a win (Russian bot style) that all the lefty groups in the area came out to protest against them, ID'd themselves as it were. And that Domingo seems more an angry violent tool, just trying on identities as a method looking for an ideology that would allow him to be violently angry, the many extremists seem quite alike this way:

[....] On the campaign trail, Democratic candidates, seeking moments of political transcendence, have been talking about how much ordinary citizens in our painfully divided country truly have in common. Unfortunately, the same can be said of the nation’s extremists. In Foreman’s profile picture, which he changed a week before the planned rally, he has a semi-automatic weapon strapped to his chest and a kaffiyeh tied around his neck. (When I reached out to him on Facebook, he did not respond.) After Charlottesville, Foreman, according to a college friend of his, had posted to Instagram an A.P. photo of himself with Gionet—possibly close to the moment of the alleged assault—and captioned it, “Out there doing my thing 6 weeks after being stabbed. All wars begin with a spark.” It struck me that Domingo would have found much to like about Foreman—from the gun and the tiki-torch chants to his desire to incite large-scale violence—and yet would happily have murdered him, along with untold others, last weekend.

Meanwhile, in the hall of mirrors that is Facebook, the page belonging to the Everything Patriot and Tactical was pulled, but not before its owner posted that the rally-that-wasn’t had been a triumph: not because mass casualties had been averted, but because the threat of right-wingers in Long Beach had smoked out the opposition. “Got all the intel we needed on which groups organize in that part of town,” the post claimed. “Cops got what they needed. Successful day. Doxxing campaigns to come folks. 2020 gonna be lit. No safe space for communists. Good job to our undercovers.” A screen grab of the post went up on the Anti-Racist Neighborhood Front page, but as of this writing that page, too, has disappeared.