Two members of Black militia NFAC shot at Louisville BLM protest before face-off with right-wingers
The new civil war fantasies of the right-wing Boogaloo Boys came one step closer to reality today in Louisville, Kentucky as armed members of the Three Percenters, a far-right militia, faced off against the Atlanta-based Black militia group, the NFAC (Not Fucking Around Coalition) with police deployed between the groups to keep them from coming closer enough to each other to create a conflagration.
Members of the armed 3% militia bear city hall amid the NFAC Black militia March. They say they are just here to provide “security” @courierjournal pic.twitter.com/2cktqXSMvL
— Chris Kenning (@chris_kenning) July 25, 2020
Here at Baxter Park where the Not F**king Around Coalition has assembled before marching to Jefferson Square Park.
People have driven as far as Oregon to be here for #BreonnaTaylor. #Louisville #BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/IzIttqEO42
— Philmonger (@phillipmbailey) July 25, 2020
NFAC has at least twice as many at Baxter Avenue. #BreonnaTaylor #Louisville #BlackLivesMatter https://t.co/kontz9COfB
— Philmonger (@phillipmbailey) July 25, 2020
While the Three Percenters were intimidating other, unarmed Louisville BLM protestors, the NFAC were gathered at a nearby park where what appears to be an accidental firearm discharge sent at least two people to the hospital.
At least two people have been taken away after a single gunshot went off at Baxter Park. pic.twitter.com/87gxzv2orO
— Philmonger (@phillipmbailey) July 25, 2020
BREAKING: We just watched two people be taken onto stretchers at Baxter square on 12th and Jefferson. Metro safe has confirmed reports of shootings & that there are multiple victims. We heard the noises when people scattered to get behind cars, & to take a knee @WHAS11 #nightteam pic.twitter.com/h5AsPWlLbi
— Jessie Cohen (@jessiecohennews) July 25, 2020
We just watched LMPD take a shot gun from the scene that was within the perimeter of their tape. @WHAS11 #nightteam pic.twitter.com/6ZjnqWZvJ0
— Jessie Cohen (@jessiecohennews) July 25, 2020
They have made their way to the other end of the park. One of the members of the NFAC now talking to the crowd who are NOT NFAC members says “we had a little accident, it happens” @WHAS11 #nightteam pic.twitter.com/1XjgnMgA7R
— Jessie Cohen (@jessiecohennews) July 25, 2020
If there was ever a sight that might get right-wing 2nd Amendment fanatics to reconsider their support for unlimited gun rights without meaningful control regulations, the sight of a large group of armed Black people marching down their street, ready to fight for their rights, just may be the one thing that could recalibrate their NRA leanings.
Downtown Louisville today. A lot of people who aren’t police or military with assault rifles, handguns, multiple ammo clips and knives as two opposing militias come to town pic.twitter.com/eRrari54gu
— Chris Kenning (@chris_kenning) July 25, 2020
After the accidental shooting was handled, the NFAC began its march to downtown Louisville.
From front to back a half block of #NFAC has assembled on Jefferson Street. #BreonnaTaylor #BlackLivesMatter #Louisville pic.twitter.com/oX0h4vlUs5
— Philmonger (@phillipmbailey) July 25, 2020
@WHAS11 #nightteam pic.twitter.com/osM8pvCL3C
— Jessie Cohen (@jessiecohennews) July 25, 2020
With right-wing militias turning up armed to BLM protests and Donald Trump sending his personal Gestapo, the motley crew of unidentified soldiers from the Homeland Security Department and other federal agencies that he’s deployed to Portland and wants to send to other Democratically-controlled cities, it seems like the possibility of civil war is closer in the United States than it has been at any time since the 1860s, thanks to the most divisive president in U.S. history.
At least the most vulnerable among us, those who are typically the eventual victims of any civil unrest and the subsequent government crackdown, are finally taking actions to defend themselves and let the world know that they won’t stand for unequal justice any longer.
Where things go from here is anybody’s guess. They say that the wish that “May you live in interesting times” is more of a curse than a blessing.
If so, it appears that we live in particularly cursed times.
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