{"id":211000,"date":"2020-07-26T09:52:19","date_gmt":"2020-07-26T09:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=211000"},"modified":"2020-07-30T07:47:09","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T07:47:09","slug":"member-of-black-only-nfac-militia-reportedly-shoots-himself-by-mistake-at-louisville-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=211000","title":{"rendered":"Member of black-only NFAC militia reportedly SHOOTS HIMSELF by mistake at Louisville rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>RT \u2013 July 25, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/NFAC-militia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-211001\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/NFAC-militia-768x432.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/NFAC-militia-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/NFAC-militia-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/NFAC-militia-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/NFAC-militia.jpg 1240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">At a rally by the black-only \u2018Not F**king Around Coalition\u2019 (NFAC) in Louisville, Kentucky, gunshots rang out and two people were wheeled off by medics. Early reports suggest one of the militia members shot himself by accident.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">An all-black militia whose leader says he believes in violence to further the black cause, the NFAC gathered in Louisville, Kentucky on Saturday in full battle dress. Numbering more than a hundred, according to local reports, they demanded that the killers of Breonna Taylor \u2013 three police officers \u2013 be criminally charged.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">There to meet them were the \u2018Three Percenters\u2019, a right-wing militia whose membership is mostly white. Police formed a line between the two groups.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Bout to be a militia showdown in Louisville <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oDKlwX2xGU\">pic.twitter.com\/oDKlwX2xGU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ?\ufe0f (@_theghettomonk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_theghettomonk\/status\/1287045851559362561?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 25, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">When gunshots rang out over Baxter Park, however, they weren\u2019t the first shots in a racial confrontation. Instead, they were accidental, and medics arrived moments later to wheel away two victims, reportedly NFAC members.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">At the BLM <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NFAC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NFAC<\/a> rally in Louisville one of the members accidentally shot themselves or another person. Hearing reports of possibly two injured. Seeing a lot of irresponsible things, people pointing weapons at each other ?\u200d\u2640\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Q7b3rcaC7R\">pic.twitter.com\/Q7b3rcaC7R<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Brittany (@Brittany3l) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Brittany3l\/status\/1287076650316955648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 25, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">One person being carried out on a stretcher <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0KM6BRtQwt\">pic.twitter.com\/0KM6BRtQwt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Brittany (@Brittany3l) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Brittany3l\/status\/1287076790549217281?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 25, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">According to witnesses who described the scene on Twitter, an NFAC member accidentally fired his weapon, possibly injuring himself in the process. Police later said that three people were hit when the gun went off. In one live stream from the event, a woman could be heard off camera muttering: <em>\u201cThis is f**king embarrassing.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">By early afternoon, local media <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/eu.courier-journal.com\/story\/news\/local\/2020\/07\/25\/louisville-protests-nfac-three-percenters-expected-demonstrate\/3288198001\/\">reported<\/a><\/strong><\/span> that at least two people had been arrested during the day. Despite the earlier mishap, the NFAC formed columns and marched through the streets of Louisville as planned.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Screen grab from a news helicopter. The NFAC are getting ready to march. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NIm0h5msdx\">pic.twitter.com\/NIm0h5msdx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; JJ MacNab (@jjmacnab) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jjmacnab\/status\/1287090162401333249?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 25, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">That&#39;s a looooooooot of Black people with guns. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NFAC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NFAC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BreonnaTaylor?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BreonnaTaylor<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Louisville?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Louisville<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BlackLivesMatter?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BlackLivesMatter<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LLhWvM4bFr\">pic.twitter.com\/LLhWvM4bFr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Philmonger (@phillipmbailey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/phillipmbailey\/status\/1287091496735449091?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 25, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The armed showdown came one day after police in Louisville arrested 76 protesters who blocked off a downtown street to hold a spontaneous block party. The arrests were made after the cops declared the demonstration an unlawful gathering.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u2018Black Lives Matter\u2019 protesters have demonstrated in downtown Louisville for nearly two months straight, calling on the police officers who shot Taylor to be fired and face criminal trial. The protests have already claimed two lives, most recently when a photographer was <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/493146-louisville-shooting-breonna-taylor\/\">shot<\/a><\/strong><\/span> during a gathering at Jefferson Square Park in late June, and earlier when police <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/490410-dead-protester-louisville-police\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>returned fire<\/strong><\/span><\/a> after being shot at by a protester.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/495866-black-militia-shoots-himself-louisville\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s the betting that this incident will get almost no coverage from the mainstream media?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Race"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=211000"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211005,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211000\/revisions\/211005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=211000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=211000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=211000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}