Armed militia clash in Louisville
America's militias are feeling empowered and emboldened - they are coming out of the shadows in a way that I have never witnessed before.https://www.itv.com/news/2020-09-08/the-wild-west-without-a-sheriff-itv-news-witnesses-a-brazen-display-of-militia-powerOver the weekend, in the city of Louisville in Kentucky, different groups collided in a chaotic display of non-state armed power.
Strikingly, the police, the National Guard and civic leaders were nowhere to be seen for several hours. In other words, the competing militias had the run of a major American city.
It was like a scene from the Wild West, but without a sheriff in town.
One militia leader is Dylan Stevens, known as the Angry Viking. He sees himself as filling a security vacuum following a summer of protests and of sporadic violence in a number of US cities.
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We also encountered the new black militia, the NFAC, which stands for "Not F***ing Around Coalition."
It has hundreds of recruits, many of them veterans of the US military.
NFAC is led by a mysterious black nationalist known as Grandmaster Jay.
His bodyguards protect him at every step, and he projects himself as a military leader, with a cult-like following.
He sees NFAC as a counter-militia to the white supremacists that often dominate this space.
This video footage is really disturbing, opposing armed militias numbering in the hundreds and armed to the teeth are now patrolling American cities. What happens when they start shooting at each other?