The New Black Panther Party, a "black power" movement, will carry firearms for self-defense during rallies in Cleveland ahead of next week's Republican convention, if allowed under Ohio law, the group's chairman said.
The plan by the group this weekend comes as police in Cleveland brace for an influx of groups that plan demonstrations before and during the presidential nominating convention.
During the attack last week in Dallas that killed five police officers, law enforcement officials said demonstrators carrying rifles led them to initially believe they were under attack by multiple shooters.
Several other groups, including some supporters of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, have said they will carry weapons in Cleveland.
"If it is an open state to carry, we will exercise our second amendment rights because there are other groups threatening to be there that are threatening to do harm to us," Hashim Nzinga, chairman of the New Black Panther Party, told Reuters in a telephone interview.
"If that state allows us to bear arms, the Panthers and the others who can legally bear arms will bear arms."
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Keep messing around and pushing violence they might not like the end result.
ReplyDeleteThey will be outnumbered by so many civilized citizens they will think a second time about trying anything stupid;that is if they actually have the ability to think...
ReplyDeleteHey Black Panthers, just stay home and you won't have to be worried about getting hurt. You're really not wanted in Cleveland anyway, I don't think anyone called you and said, hey, come on over to Cleveland and shoot your mouth off next week, now did they?
ReplyDeleteThey will try something stupid you can bet on that.
ReplyDeleteThe more of this they threaten and try the more people will vote for Donald Trump. Blacks always without fail have ended up devouring their own by acting stupidly and without any forward thought process. The Black Panthers and BLM (Clinton's people) interrupting people's lives from coast to coast will be very helpful to the Trump campaign.
ReplyDeleteWhen everyone is armed, everyone is VERY polite! And for good reason.
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