Richmond Police Seize Guns from Group of Black Men at Gun Rights Rally While White ‘Boogaloo Boys’ Admit They Faced No Issues

[ZiprHead]

https://atlantablackstar.com/2021/01/20/richmond-police-seize-guns-from-group-of-black-men-at-gun-rights-rally-while-white-boogaloo-boys-admit-they-faced-no-issues/?fbclid=IwAR3FL6EP-9LmrM9UImoTRWeQliM4s9APvcnGICINzgWIca5y0mh5T5IM4qg

Richmond police seized at least two firearms from a group of Black men present at a gun rights rally in Virginia on Monday, Jan. 18, while white gun rights activists were not confronted by authorities.

During the annual “Lobby Day” demonstration in Richmond, Black protesters expressed frustration about law enforcement’s disparate treatment of Black and white activists

Reuters witnessed police confront a vehicle carrying a group of Black men in a sea of hundreds of white gun rights activists demonstrating on foot and in cars near the capitol.

“Everybody in the city is carrying today, and you’re only pulling us over,” yelled a Black woman among a group of angry bystanders. “Shoutout to Martin Luther King Day!”

One of the Black men whose gun was confiscated called the situation a double standard and said it’s an example of why Black Americans resent police. At least one other weapon was taken by officers.

In a statement posted to the department’s Twitter account, Richmond police said officers confiscated a firearm from someone who was carrying a concealed weapon without a concealed carry permit.

“Virginia is and remains an open carry state,” the tweet said.

Just an hour before the group of Black men was stopped, the white leader of the Boogaloo Boys shared via megaphone that his group of anti-government, far-right extremists was violating gun and ammunition laws.

The group of all white men called themselves the “Last Sons of Liberty.”

Leader Mike Dunn, 20, shared with reporters and police alike that his group was openly carrying semiautomatic rifles “in pure defiance” of local laws, and “rocking mags (ammunition magazines) with double the legal limit.”

Dunn told Reuters that the group did not face any issues. “We are here openly defying these laws, these unconstitutional city ordinances,” he said.

 

[Derec]

Atlanta Black Star is not a credible source. It's a biased, racist rag where everything is the fault of white people and black people never did nothing.

 

[Shadowy Man]

Atlanta Black Star is not a credible source. It's a biased, racist rag where everything is the fault of white people and black people never did nothing.

So, you are contending it is a fabricated story?

 

[Derec]

So, you are contending it is a fabricated story?

Didn't read the story, but ABS is a trash source. They don't even try to pretend to be anything but a source of "narratives" to push an agenda.

Who: Atlanta Black Star is a narrative company.

What: We publish narratives intentionally and specifically to enlighten and transform the world.

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[...]
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Funny how any junk source from the far left seems to be acceptable on here but pretty mainstream sources are dismissed as unreliable because they have a right-of-center bias.

 

[Trausti]

Funny how any junk source from the far left seems to be acceptable on here but pretty mainstream sources are dismissed as unreliable because they have a right-of-center bias.

Well, at least the left finally appreciates the Second Amendment. So there's that.

 

[Shadowy Man]

I didn’t say I accepted the source I just wanted to know if you think the story was fabricated entirely. Or maybe you think the story is just more a biased interpretation of an actual event.

 

[TomC]

Funny how any junk source from the far left seems to be acceptable on here but pretty mainstream sources are dismissed as unreliable because they have a right-of-center bias.

Well, at least the left finally appreciates the Second Amendment. So there's that.

You're kidding yourself.

I know a bunch of leftists who are very big on their guns and hunting. They're just not stupid about it. They respect the weapons and keep them secure. They also know the difference between using one for it's correct purposes and strapping one on as a penis extension.
Tom

 

[Worldtraveller]

Take your pick of sources:

https://news.google.com/search?q=Lobby Day demonstration in Richmon&hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US:en

 

[ZiprHead]

I think it's Derec's bias that should be questioned.

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/atlanta-black-star/

 

[Worldtraveller]

But, it's got the word 'black' in it, so it is, by default, untrustworthy.

 

[laughing dog]

The reports are incomplete. It may be the case that it was the behavior of the arrested folks that would have prompted anyone to be arrested.

And, contrary, to the kneejerk reaction of the usual suspects, this is not about gun rights per se, but equal treatment. If these black men were arrested because they had firearms while other folks of different races with firearms were not, then there is a real problem. Please note the previous sentence is a conditional "if then" statement which means without the premise, the statement is not relevant.

 

[Jarhyn]

The reports are incomplete. It may be the case that it was the behavior of the arrested folks that would have prompted anyone to be arrested.

And, contrary, to the kneejerk reaction of the usual suspects, this is not about gun rights per se, but equal treatment. If these black men were arrested because they had firearms while other folks of different races with firearms were not, then there is a real problem. Please note the previous sentence is a conditional "if then" statement which means without the premise, the statement is not relevant.

Or, as one raging bigot in my old chain of command pointed out when he explained that the fundamental basis for my discharge was an allegation that I had someone in my room after hours, an allegation made by someone who, themselves, should have just installed a late night revolving door for his own barracks room: "well, regulations are going to apply to some more than others".

The issue here being is that even if I had every legal right following that statement, it was made out of earshot of anyone who could act as witness and it would only manage to drag the hypocrite asshole down along with me.

It is a belief, a double-standard held by many and only spoken of when there is no fear of reprisal for leveraging it. I assume most who leverage this asymmetry of power are smarter than the 1SG that said that quiet part out loud.

This belief lives in the wild, that law is a sword that you may hold and wield, rather than a whirling blade that chops all down equally when they step past it's threshold.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Atlanta Black Star is not a credible source. It's a biased, racist rag where everything is the fault of white people and black people never did nothing.

So, you are contending it is a fabricated story?

When rags make reports like this it's usually not fabricated, but rather that important details are omitted.

The guns were probably seized--but the reason why is being omitted.

 

[KeepTalking]

Atlanta Black Star is not a credible source. It's a biased, racist rag where everything is the fault of white people and black people never did nothing.

So, you are contending it is a fabricated story?

When rags make reports like this it's usually not fabricated, but rather that important details are omitted.

The guns were probably seized--but the reason why is being omitted.

The reason was reported, and quoted in the OP. It was due to a concealed carry violation. The problem is that it was still selective enforcement, as there were others there openly bragging about breaking gun laws. In those cases they were breaking laws regarding the type of guns and magazine they could posses, and those illegal items were not seized.

 

[Shadowy Man]

When rags make reports like this it's usually not fabricated, but rather that important details are omitted.

The guns were probably seized--but the reason why is being omitted.

The reason was reported, and quoted in the OP. It was due to a concealed carry violation. The problem is that it was still selective enforcement, as there were others there openly bragging about breaking gun laws. In those cases they were breaking laws regarding the type of guns and magazine they could posses, and those illegal items were not seized.

You’re assuming the reporting is accurate. The claim by Derek above is that it is not. Is there an independent confirmation of the facts in this story?

 

[Patooka]

But, it's got the word 'black' in it, so it is, by default, untrustworthy.

That is absolute crap. I'm sure Derec believes "Atlanta Black People Scrutiny" is quite reliable.

 

[Gospel]

The article lost me at the "Boogaloo boys". I don't think the police like those cats.

 

[Elixir]

Didn't read the story, but ABS is a trash source.

Yeah! just like Reuters and that left wing rag The Hill, and anyone else who tries to tell Derec stuff he doesn't want to hear.

But as long as he doesn't read the story, he's safe from those mind-polluting racist liars.

 

[Jarhyn]

Didn't read the story, but ABS is a trash source.

Yeah! just like Reuters and that left wing rag The Hill, and anyone else who tries to tell Derec stuff he doesn't want to hear.

But as long as he doesn't read the story, he's safe from those mind-polluting racist liars.

I mean shit, sometimes I read the shit rags they themselves post, right up until it feels like my head is going to twist away from my body for all the spin

 

[TomC]

Atlanta Black Star is not a credible source. It's a biased, racist rag where everything is the fault of white people and black people never did nothing.

So, you are contending it is a fabricated story?

When rags make reports like this it's usually not fabricated, but rather that important details are omitted.

The guns were probably seized--but the reason why is being omitted.

This is why I prefer heavily biased information sources. I know I'm not getting the whole story, but I know where to look for information to fill in the gaps.

If you get your news from BBC and Fox and AlJazeera and msnbc and CNN and DailyKos and redstate.com and Drudge Report, you can compare the stories and follow links to the sources. How well does the information match? How comprehensive is it? Which parts of who's information are more plausible and credible and substantiated?

Spend some time becoming educated about the information sources themselves, then listen to what they have to say. Ask yourself simple questions, like "are they claiming the same thing this month that they were a couple of months ago?"
That simple exercise made me seem rather a liberal supporter. I'm really not one, I'm quite conservative. But I got used to the fact that so called "conservatives" couldn't say or support the same ideological politics over any length of time. The level of hypocrisy required to impeach Clinton, but not Trump, isn't a conservative value. It just partisan hypocrisy.

There are no Christian conservative politicians at the Federal level any more. At least none that I know about. The TeaParty got rid of them, calling them RINOs.

I'm not happy about that, but it's what Republicans did to themselves.
Tom