Black Open Carry Protesters Are Marching Against Police Brutality, and the Media Is Silent

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They call themselves the Huey P. Newton Gun Club, named after the co-founder of the Black Panther Party For Self Defense. Like the defunct organization which called for reform of community policing, demanding that police come from the neighborhoods they serve, the Huey P. Newton Gun Club says they are marching “to promote self-defense and community policing” in response to the recent high profile stories about police shooting unarmed African Americans across the country.

To the protesters, “community policing” is more than just a word. Communities should be protected by members of the community, and held accountable. Ironically this was the original vision for community policing, articulated in 1812 by Sir Robert Peel. That’s right, it may surprise many to discover that our communities have only had police as we know them for a little over 200 years. Even then, it took a little while for Peel’s concept of police forces to make its way to the United States. Since then it has become a norm that many cannot imagine a time before.

In Texas, the Huey P. Newton Gun Club are following in the footsteps of Newton, who was a law major, striving to stay within the bounds of legality. Though the historical Black Panthers had a notable slip-up which led to then Governor Ronald Reagan signing the Mulford Act which prohibited carrying loaded guns in public space. The goal of the Panthers, as they explained it, was to assert the rights of the people to defend themselves against corrupt police, within the bounds of the law. The Huey P. Newton Gun Club says that’s exactly what they are doing today with their open carry protests.

Police have kept a close eye on the protesters, while also trying to keep their distance. One officer we talked to said “there’s really nothing we can do about it. Open carry protests are not against the law.”

read the rest here:

http://countercurrentnews.com/2014/10/black-open-carry-protesters-are-marching-against-police-brutality-and-the-media-is-silent/

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#blackopencarry (https://twitter.com/hashtag/BlackOpenCarry?src=hash)

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http://reason.com/blog/2014/08/20/black-open-carry-in-dallas


In Texas, blacks are protesting police violence in a particularly Southwestern way: By invoking their right to open carry (http://www.myfoxdfw.com/story/26328877/gun-club-patrols-south-dallas-streets). On Wednesday, more than 30 members (https://twitter.com/HueyGunClub/status/502273700918743040) of the newly-formed Huey P. Newton Gun Club gathered to march through South Dallas with rifles, shotguns, and AR-15s. The group eventually entered a restaurant with their weapons while Dallas police officers were inside eating lunch.


http://www.vocativ.com/usa/race/black-open-carry/


http://theobamacrat.com/2014/08/22/the-huey-p-newton-gun-club-blackopencarry/


If you were used to seeing this as the only example of Open Carry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_carry_in_the_United_States)……
http://mrmilitantnegro.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/bu_48vhieaegkm9.jpg?w=468&h=262 (http://theobamacrat.com/2014/08/22/the-huey-p-newton-gun-club-blackopencarry/bu_48vhieaegkm9/)

Get ready to be updated…….
http://mrmilitantnegro.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/img_2942.jpg?w=468&h=312 (http://theobamacrat.com/2014/08/22/the-huey-p-newton-gun-club-blackopencarry/img_2942/)

[phill4paul]

Good on 'em. Should be major news. It's time.

[aGameOfThrones]

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[Legend1104]

Oh I can't wait to hear the debate around my family kitchen table. They won't know what to do:
"Do I add +1-2 for open carry, -1-2 for anti-police state? I don't know what to think! How do I understand what to think?! The media is silent! I don't know what I am supposed to do!"

[Working Poor]

cool

[SeanTX]

GOOD. If the black guy who got gunned down in the Beavercreek , Ohio Walmart had been open carrying an AR-15 , he would have been within his rights to do so .

But he was holding an air rifle that looked like an AR-15, and he was murdered because of that. And nothing will happen to his killers, unless some sort of street justice is carried out.

[Antischism]

I wonder how many gun rights advocates who happen to be white supremacists would experience cognitive dissonance if this catches fire. "Can't trust the blacks with weapons!" Hearkens back to when Reagan, the NRA and white supremacists wanted gun control to keep blacks from being armed. America has a long history of gun control laws including the founding fathers.

[Anti Federalist]

I wonder how many gun rights advocates who happen to be white supremacists would experience cognitive dissonance if this catches fire. "Can't trust the blacks with weapons!" Hearkens back to when Reagan, the NRA and white supremacists wanted gun control to keep blacks from being armed. America has a long history of gun control laws including the founding fathers.

It's been my experience that well bred, liberal elite, white folks from places like NYC are the worst sort of racists, and gun banners, and exist in much greater numbers and much more influence than the handful of skinheads out there.

This picture would be enough to send them into fits of apoplexy.

I'd stand with them.

[Anti Federalist]

I wonder how many gun rights advocates who happen to be white supremacists would experience cognitive dissonance if this catches fire. "Can't trust the blacks with weapons!" Hearkens back to when Reagan, the NRA and white supremacists wanted gun control to keep blacks from being armed. America has a long history of gun control laws including the founding fathers.

It's been my experience that well bred, liberal elite, white folks from places like NYC are the worst sort of racists, and gun banners, and exist in much greater numbers and much more influence than the handful of skinheads out there.

This picture would be enough to send them into fits of apoplexy.

I'd stand with them.

[Anti Federalist]

To the protesters, “community policing” is more than just a word. Communities should be protected by members of the community, and held accountable.

Wow, what a radical idea...

[Anti Federalist]

To the protesters, “community policing” is more than just a word. Communities should be protected by members of the community, and held accountable.

Wow, what a radical idea...

[tod evans]

I'd feel much better around those folks than these;

http://assets.hightimes.com/swat-raid.jpg

[Anti Federalist]

^^^^ WTF is with the gangsta grip on the first guy?

[Spikender]

Damn straight. Justice for every person gunned down by the law who isn't on the news non-stop. It's not just about Mike Brown and it never has been, despite what critics say. I'm glad to see my fellow Americans standing up for themselves and exercising their rights in an informed way.

[nobody's_hero]

I fully support their motives. The reason you aren't seeing this in mainstream media is because they don't want to foster the idea that blacks might become self-governing. The whole concept behind policing one's own community?

(It doesn't fit their narrative.)

"No sir, ******. You best let massa take care of dat."

[Working Poor]

I posted this link at a liberal site and they informed me that this article is so yesterday because it was written Aug. 20, 2014.

[jmdrake]

^^^^ WTF is with the gangsta grip on the first guy?

I assume it has something to do with using the ballistic shield.

[jmdrake]

I posted this link at a liberal site and they informed me that this article is so yesterday because it was written Aug. 20, 2014.

LOL

[jmdrake]

I wonder how many gun rights advocates who happen to be white supremacists would experience cognitive dissonance if this catches fire. "Can't trust the blacks with weapons!" Hearkens back to when Reagan, the NRA and white supremacists wanted gun control to keep blacks from being armed. America has a long history of gun control laws including the founding fathers.

Interesting history lesson.

http://blog.uwgb.edu/alltherage/fact-check-did-the-nra-supported-gun-control-when-the-black-panthers-advocated-that-minorities-arm-themselves/

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http://reason.com/blog/2014/08/20/black-open-carry-in-dallas




http://www.vocativ.com/usa/race/black-open-carry/


http://theobamacrat.com/2014/08/22/the-huey-p-newton-gun-club-blackopencarry/

Should be justice for Miriam Carey posters there too.

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[jkr]

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