A reputed onetime member of a now-defunct Southern California white supremacist group is expected to be sentenced Thursday in downtown Los Angeles for inciting brawls at political rallies across the state eight years ago.

Robert Boman, 32, of Torrance was convicted in March in Los Angeles federal court of two counts: conspiracy to violate the anti-riot act and rioting, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Prosecutors told the jury that beginning around February 2017, Boman participated in a racist organization that presented itself on social media as a “combat-ready, militant group of a new nationalist identity movement.”

The defendant and his associates used the internet to post videos and pictures of themselves conducting training in hand-to-hand combat, interspersed with pictures

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