Torrance Man Convicted In Rioting Case Tied To Former SoCal-Based White Supremacist Group

KCAL News, CBS Los Angeles

March 7, 2025

A Torrance man once tied to a what federal prosecutors and civil rights groups have described as a now-defunct white supremacist group in Southern California was convicted Tuesday of federal rioting charges.

Robert Boman was found guilty by a jury in downtown Los Angeles of federal charges including conspiracy to violate the Anti-Riot Act and rioting, becoming the last defendant to be convicted in the federal case linked to the so-called Rise Against Movement. He and his co-defendants were accused of inciting violence at political rallies in Southern California in the months leading up to the 2017 "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virg., which one left person dead. Some members of the RAM, which federal authorities have described as a violent organization devoted to white supremacism, also attended the Virginia rally.

Beginning around February 2017, as prosecutors told jurors during the trial, Bowman took part in the group which had presented itself on social media as a "combat-ready, militant group of a new nationalist identity movement." The Southern Poverty Law Center once described it as "racist fight club," with members "often photographed in bloody confrontations with protesters."

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