New Black Panther Party 'Will Bear Arms' at RNC Protests

Alissa Lopez | July 13, 2016
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The ‘New Black Panther Party,’ whose motto is "freedom or death," has gained immense media attention following the police shootings last week in Minnesota and Louisiana. And the next thing on their apparent to-do list is to protest the Republican National Convention taking place in Cleveland next week -- armed. 

If allowed, the group said they'll be openly carrying guns.

The chairman of the party, Hashim Nzinga, told Reuters in a telephone interview, “If it is an open state to carry, we will exercise our Second Amendment rights because there are other groups threatening to be there that are threatening to do harm to us.”

"If that state allows us to bear arms, the Panthers and the others who can legally bear arms will bear arms," he reiterated.

And as it turns out, the New Black Panthers members may be able to carry weapons outside the convention because of the state’s open carry law.

State law does not prohibit the open carrying of firearms except in certain locations, but a person should exercise caution when carrying a firearm in public… may transport a loaded handgun in a motor vehicle at their discretion, but must exercise caution regarding access to the firearm (i.e. if their are children in the car and the firearm can be accessed by them, a case of child endangerment may exist)…

Considering the rising hostility toward police officers, the Cleveland police may have their work cut out for them.

These self-proclaimed anti-capitalists seek to “fight the gentrification or THE WHITE TAKEOVER of the (CITY)” and will “fight against it by any means necessary.” The group's been around since the 80's, but have just recently gained media traction after calling for a new-and-improved version of racial segregation: creating a new all-black nations by taking control of the economies in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina.

And the reason it will supposedly work? Because all white people are racist.

Breitbart reported this statement from Babu Omowale’s, the group's national minister of defense:

“We just need to start migrating back to those states and taking control of the economics in those states. If black people move in, most definitely white people will move out. So it’s not a hard process for us to have our own country within a country”

The NBP have supplied a 10-point platform on their website along with nine local objectives, which are all similar to the original Black Panther Party’s goals.

The platform includes things such as full employment for the African American community, an end to the “racist death penalty,” free healthcare, tax and military exemptions, an end to “police harassment, brutality and murder” and education that “exposes the true nature of this devilish and decadent American society.”

They also call for the immediate release of the black men and women in prison on the grounds that each of their trials were unfair, saying they should be retried in a court “by a jury of their peer group or people from their black communities.”

As for the local objectives, Hypeline sums it up quite nicely:

In order to “further Black agenda,” they plan to elect black leaders in their community, monitor police, and “control politicians.”  Also, they pledge to “deal firmly” with black leadership who “betray the interests of the Black Nation.”

And here I was thinking the black lives matter movement was a handful.

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