Posted on 06/08/2024 6:44:53 AM PDT by thegagline
A predominantly Black neighborhood in Hartford, Connecticut, hoping to fend off violent crime, has turned to an armed group of citizens to patrol their streets by land and by air.
The so-called “Self-Defense Brigade” — made up of about 40 legally armed citizens — are voluntarily patrolling the streets of Hartford’s North End wearing body cameras mostly on nights and weekends, according to the group’s founder, Cornell Lewis.
When the armed volunteers are not on the streets, the group monitors video feeds from a dozen drones hovering over the neighborhood, and 75 home surveillance cameras in the neighborhood.
“The Democratic machine in Hartford is either unwilling or unable, incapable of doing it, and people are paying their tax dollars, and they’re not really getting any kind of service,” Lewis told Fox News. “So we want the people to understand, number one, self-defense is not a dirty word.”
Hartford’s Democratic Mayor Arunan Arulampalam has denounced the group over concerns they will enact vigilante justice.
“Our community has seen so much pain and trauma, and what we need is for those who love this city to do the hard work of healing that pain, not walk around our streets with guns trying to take the law into their own hands,” Arulampalam said in a statement to Fox.
Lewis contends the brigade is not made up of vigilantes and are all trained in discipline legal security.
The 40 or so volunteers in Hartford have legal permits to carry concealed weapons and the purpose is self-defense.
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The group began patrolling the neighborhood at the behest of Archbishop Dexter Burke of the Walk in the Light Church of God. A shooting in February left two men dead near his church and he had enough.
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now that they’ve advertised their local government nZi’s will shut them down and actively disarm anyone and everyone who signed up to protect the community from the criminal element.
Hope they have some lawyers on retainer.
Last time that happened, a Hispanic American was accused of murder for confronting a punk who tried to kill him by bashing his head agaisnt the cement, and darn near got convicted of it- and that was in Florida with much more lax gun rules-
Will the Connecticut armed people wind up in prison for simply showing their weapon if they have to when confronting criminals? Hopefully not! Hope the law starts to favor law abiding citizens over criminals, and 5his trend spreads through the nation as we swing back towards a sane and armed nation that doesn’t put up with liberal nonsense that gators the criminals
They need to get Viet Nam combat veteran Blumenthal and superman Murphy to support them........
It's almost like Groucho Marx and WC Fields competing to come up with character names for their next movie.
Re “ Hartford’s Democratic Mayor Arunan Arulampalam”
Well, there’s your problem,right there…
A good, solid American name like Cuthbert J. Twillie.
When the government fails at its duties the void will be filled.
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I see plenty of “self defense” in my own California neighborhood - large fences going up all around properties with cameras mounted on each corner.
Or Rufus T. Firefly
WTH kind of name is that? If it’s a black area, I’d expect Tyrone or Lekisha, but Arunan Arulampalam???
“A “well-regulated” militia simply meant that the processes for activating, training, and deploying the militia in official service should be efficient and orderly, and that the militia itself should be capable of competently executing battlefield operations.”
I think their point is coming across crystal clear.
Sounds like we got us a militia.
An armed society is a polite society.
I’m pretty sure that same thing happened in Minneapolis during the Floyd crap. Folks in a neighborhood realized there were no cops, so the men took it upon themselves to do something.
If more citizens, in more places did this, you could defund the police.
A place that would be pleasant for the law abiding citizens. It could be rather hostile for those that don’t, whether residents who would eventually leave or outsiders trying to do bad stuff.
Police and sheriffs departments can expand or implement reserve units. Trained and equipped like the full time folks but donate time when needed or they can. There are some places that have great programs and are staffed with concerned and willing citizens.
Others are just programs where the chief or sheriff hand out credentials to their friends so they can carry guns and get out of traffic tickets(although that doesn’t happen as much anymore because of body cameras).
Kinda sounds like the perps.
When the Republic was formed, the term for groups like these was “militia”.
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