*Man who pleaded guilty in murder-for-hire case planned to pin killings on Black Lives Matter.*

Perpetrators of right-wing violence have made a habit of flying false flags. Consider "umbrella man" who started violence in protests about the murder of George Floyd, and the way the perpetrators of the Jan 6 attack on the Capitol now claim that it was "Antifa" which carried out that attack.

I have to wonder how much of this plan was suggested and promoted by the FBI informant. The FBI's MO includes leading people by the nose into participating in a criminal plot. We can't tell whether the accused entered the plot of per own motivation, in which case the conviction is valid deserved, or was effectively entrapped, in which case the conviction is invalid.