Background article
http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/index.ssf/2015/10/armed_activists_walked_through.html
...Today’s rally was not a protest, said Avee-Ashanti Shabazz and Mercutio Southall, co-founders of Birmingham’s Black Lives Matter Also-Birmingham, but an effort to educate the residents of their gun rights and their human rights...
...Shabazz’ second-cousin, Courtney Gadsden, was shot by Birmingham police Oct. 13. Birmingham police spokesman Lt. Sean Edwards two officers stopped a suspicious vehicle near the intersection of Kingston Avenue and 47th Street just after 8 p.m. He said as the officers approached the vehicle they gave commands to the motorist, but he didn’t comply.
The driver got out and continued to refuse compliance, Edwards said. One of the officers deployed his stun gun. It is not yet clear if the stun gun struck him. At that point, the second officer saw the man was holding a weapon and fired on him, Edwards said. The gun was recovered at the scene. Edwards said “several shots” were fired. None of them were fired by the suspect...
...Shabazz said he doesn’t know all of the details surround the shooting of his cousin, who is a convicted felon and has served time in prison, according to court records...
“second cousin”...OK.
How do any of them know who their second cousins are, when none of them know who their fathers were? Or grandfathers? Or great-grandfathers?
Wonder what their trees look like on Ancestry.com???