Posted on 07/03/2021 10:26:07 AM PDT by bitt
State police have arrested 11 “heavily armed” men from a group “that does not recognize our laws” who caused highway shutdowns and shelter-in place orders in Wakefield after they fled into the woods after an encounter with cops, authorities said.
State Police Col. Christopher Mason told reporters earlier in the morning that one of his troopers saw some vehicles in the breakdown lane at 1:30 a.m. Saturday, and pulled over to see what was going on. The trooper saw that the group of “eight to 10” people, dressed to the nines in “military-style” tactical gear and armed to the teeth with long guns and handguns, was refueling their two vehicles, he said.
The trooper asked the men for their drivers licenses and licenses to carry, which the men either didn’t have or didn’t provide, he said.
Police arrested two of the men without incident early in the morning, Mason said around 8:30 a.m. The following seven arrests came by 10:30 a.m., and then cops sweeping the area found and arrested two more in the group’s vehicles. Police said all suspects had been taken into custody, ending the bizarre incident.
He said in a press conference shortly before noon that the police used a combination of negotiation and “tactical maneuvers” to round up the militiamen, who were arrested without further incident.
He said cops — who described this as a “dangerous incident” — contained the men to the woods off of I-95. Negotiators were on site and were having what Mason characterized as “productive” discussions with the group. He didn’t elaborate on what they wanted.
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Stop! I don’t think I can take much moor!
Wait a minute they were the “Rise of the Moors.”
That doesn't sound like a white supremacist group! Is Joe wrong again?
“.....The latest video shows a man decked out in military gear insisting that “we're not anti-government, we're not anti-police, we're not sovereign citizens, we're not Black identity extremists.” Locating himself in “the colony of Massachusetts,” he insisted in one of the videos that his nation — he pointed to a large Moroccan flag two of his compatriots were carrying — has a treaty with the United States......”
MAINE.
in the article.
But the next one didn't fit the plan. Instead of a white supremacist being anti-semitic, some guy with a middle eastern name tried to kill a rabbi in front of a Jewish school.
And then, perhaps due to the darkness, the state police decided to question some people wearing military style clothing who were just tending to a car on the side of the highway. Those people turned out to be a group who apparently wanted to exercise their 2nd amendment rights to cross Massachusetts with their firearms.
At first I am sure there was glee in the PR department - another example of "white supremacist" danger. But then it turned out they had just rounded up a group of black people who believe in the 2nd amendment, along with some other more unusual ideas.
Do you have any evidence to support that?
If so, they'd be called Moorons.
The Moors in Spain slept gently on the plain.
What?
5.56mm
They have some wacky ideas, but in reality just traveling across Massachusetts with firearms when you are from another state should not result in any charges based on Massachusetts firearms laws.
They are Muslims who follow Allah
Morocco.
Look at the other threads. It’s in there about their flag.
It may have been here but looks like they updated the article.
Their words and their flag support that.
My theory that Islamists are fundamentally stupid is proven again.
Armed to the teeth and on a mission they chose to stop in the pull-off lane of an interstate to refuel from gas cans.
Yes they are, what muslims don’t follow allah? As well as, apparently, being of the violent sort; a bit of a redundancy there.
Watched Fox News tonight and no mention that these were Black individuals or African Supremacy Nuts. Very bad because the average Joe would have assumed that they were White Supremisists as presented by Fox weekend staff. Guess we are back to hear no evil see no evil unless Caucasians are the perps.
I know they can’t dance.
Was never a “Cheers” fan, but that there is funny at the expense of men in general. Gets pretty close to today’s pop culture and points out some of the differences in how man and women think, which seems to be the opposite of today. Was Cheers in competition with Seinfeld.
My TV was three stooges, westerns, WWII, and Automobile racing.
Yes; we men tend to hear what we want to hear.
At least that’s what I think my wife keeps trying to say.
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