Sunday, July 4, 2021

Massachusetts Police Standoff With Heavily Armed Men Ends In 11 Arrests…

 Weasel Zippers  CNN report is quoted which calls for other sources.

Breitbart: 11 Armed Suspects Arrested Following 9-Hour Armed Standoff on Mass. Highway


"Massachusetts State Police arrested 11 people on Saturday who allegedly claimed to be members of a group known as the “Rise of the Moors.” The arrests followed an hours-long standoff with the armed members on Interstate 95 near Wakefield, Massachusetts, after suspects reportedly said they don’t “recognize our laws.”

"Early Saturday morning, the Mass State Police Twitter account posted a series of tweets regarding a standoff with multiple armed suspects in two vehicles in I-95." . . .

. . . "The members of the group reportedly refused to comply with orders to put down their weapons and other verbal orders. The people told the officers they do not “recognize our laws,” police said, according to the AP report.

The colonel said the men told the officer they were members of the “Rise of the Moors...” group and were headed to Maine from Rhode Island for “training.” The men reportedly refused to put down their weapons and several members took off into the woods, the report states.

“You can imagine, 11 armed individuals standing armed with long guns slung on an interstate highway at 2 in the morning certainly raises concerns, and is certainly not consistent with the firearms laws that we have here in Massachusetts,” the state police commander said."...

About the Rise of the Moors

Who is the Rise of the Moors militia group that stopped traffic on the highway in Wakefield?

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