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Eugene

(61,595 posts)
Tue Jul 12, 2016, 12:37 PM Jul 2016

Exclusive: New Black Panther Party says to carry arms in Cleveland if legal

Source: Reuters

Politics | Tue Jul 12, 2016 11:41am EDT

Exclusive: New Black Panther Party says to carry arms in Cleveland if legal

The chairman of the New Black Panther Party, a "black power" movement, said his group will carry arms for self-defense during protests at the Republican convention next week if allowed under Ohio law.

"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 an interview.

"If that state allows us to bear arms, the Panthers and the others who can legally bear arms will bear arms."

Nzinga condemned the killing of five police officers in Dallas last week as a “massacre” and said his group played no role in the attack.

Officials in Ohio have said it will be legal for protesters to carry weapons at demonstrations outside the convention under the state’s “open carry” laws. Several other groups, including some supporters of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, have said they will carry weapons in protests as well, leading to concerns about rival groups being armed in close proximity.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-police-blackpanthers-exclusive-idUSKCN0ZS1Z7
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Exclusive: New Black Panther Party says to carry arms in Cleveland if legal (Original Post) Eugene Jul 2016 OP
Should Make for Some Great Photos On the Road Jul 2016 #1
Who knows? matt819 Jul 2016 #2
I could live sarisataka Jul 2016 #6
Wow-Cleveland is gonna be fun! People get trampled to save $10 on a TV on Black Friday... jmg257 Jul 2016 #3
I read a dialog (facebook?) between an armed black armed group and a (primarily) white armed group Eleanors38 Jul 2016 #5
That's good to hear! nt jmg257 Jul 2016 #7
Does anyone know if the NBPP is affiliated with the H.P. Newton Gun Club? Eleanors38 Jul 2016 #4
Where are they now? beevul Jul 2016 #8
They're hoping no one notices I bet Marengo Jul 2016 #9

matt819

(10,749 posts)
2. Who knows?
Tue Jul 12, 2016, 12:49 PM
Jul 2016

Maybe the black and whites carrying weapons can bond over their mutual affection for AR-15s and their variants.

Then the NRA can make a commercial: Guns: It's what keeps us together.

sarisataka

(18,220 posts)
6. I could live
Tue Jul 12, 2016, 02:41 PM
Jul 2016

With the irony of guns being a catalyst that reduces racism and lessens people shooting each other.

jmg257

(11,996 posts)
3. Wow-Cleveland is gonna be fun! People get trampled to save $10 on a TV on Black Friday...
Tue Jul 12, 2016, 01:27 PM
Jul 2016

should be VERY interesting when entire groups of passionate people go head-to-head over serious matters of life and death, threaten each other, AND plan to have guns.


Although as alluded to in post below, maybe they will find their interest in guns to be something they have in common, and get along splendidly!

 

Eleanors38

(18,318 posts)
5. I read a dialog (facebook?) between an armed black armed group and a (primarily) white armed group
Tue Jul 12, 2016, 02:37 PM
Jul 2016

who announced they were descending onto Ferguson, MO. The discussion centered on dress style and comportment, with the black group favoring more formality so as to better convey responsibility and competency. The white group so noted this. The discussion was cordial.

 

beevul

(12,194 posts)
8. Where are they now?
Wed Jul 13, 2016, 01:40 AM
Jul 2016

The ones that support the caller that got John Crawford killed, and the ones that support the breaking of arms of minorities that carry?

Where are they now?

They seem awful quiet.

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