WATCH: Member of 'Heavily Armed' Group Rise of the Moors Broadcasts Live DURING Standoff

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5. No one seems to know what "Rise of the Moors" is about.

State Police Col. Christopher Mason said the men identified themselves as being part of a group known as Rise of the Moors. The group's website describes them as "Moorish Americans dedicated to educating new Moors and influencing our Elders."

“Their self-professed leader wanted very much known their ideology is not anti-government,” Mason said. “Our investigation will provide us more insight into what their motivation, what their ideology is.” ...

According to the Southern Poverty Law Center's website, the Moorish sovereign citizen movement is a collection of independent organizations and lone individuals that emerged in the early 1990s as an offshoot of the antigovernment sovereign citizens movement, which believes that individual citizens hold sovereignty over, and are independent of, the authority of federal and state governments.

It is not clear if Rise of the Moors is specifically affiliated with that movement.

Mason said he did not have any knowledge of this group prior to Saturday, but said it is not unusual for state police to encounter people with "sovereign ideologies."

I skipped through the video but didn't see where this young man's quoting of their legal rights actually explained what they are about and why they're heavily armed. Maybe they're allies of Killer Mike just defending their right to arm under the Second Amendment.

Crazy times.