Massachusetts police in Wakefield arrested nine sovereign citizen militia members this morning after an armed standoff where the militia blocked a highway after being confronted by police.
A bizarre incident unfolded Saturday morning in Wakefield, Massachusetts. According to local police: "during a motor vehicle stop, several heavily armed men claiming to be from a group that does not recognize our laws exited their vehicles and fled into the woodline" near Interstate Highway 95.
The incident unfolded around 1:30 a.m. when a state trooper came across a group of 8 to 10 people refueling on the side of the I-95 highway in Wakefield, a suburb of Boston. The group was dressed in military-style uniforms, carried tactical gear like body cameras and helmets and had long guns slung over their shoulders.
They told officials they were on their way to Maine from Rhode Island for "training," Col. Christopher Mason said.
Officials said they made two initial arrests and the rest of the group, which calls itself "Moorish American Arms," fled into a wooded area that is now surrounded by police. As a result, a stretch of I-95 was closed and shelter-in-place orders were set for people who live nearby.
Police negotiators talked to those hiding in the woods throughout the early morning.
"We're trying to successfully and peacefully resolve this," Mason said.
As of 10:30 a.m. Saturday the "remaining suspects on highway" were taken into custody by MSP Special Tactical Operations Team, Massachusetts State Police said in an update.
Officials had conducted searches of the two vehicles the suspects were in and the surrounding woods.
"Two additional suspects were located in their vehicles, bringing the total number of those arrested to 11 (two initially on North Avenue and nine outside and inside the vehicles)," the MSP tweeted.
"7 additional suspects being transported for booking ... Total of 9 in custody counting the initial 2 arrests," MSP had tweeted earlier.
Now, of course, note they are Black right-wing domestic terrorists, and that they were not shot. Immediately you ask, "But Zandar, if what you've been saying about racism and police is true, they would have all be gunned down instantly. Doesn't that prove race has nothing to do with it, and that you've basically been wrong for a decade? How do you explain this?"
Answer's really simple, guys. You can be Black, and you can serve white supremacy. Happens all the time. As to why the cops didn't immediately open fire, well, there were an awful lot of them, openly carrying. And even then the cops chose to arrest these guys and, I don't know, not have an open firefight at a gas station by the gas pumps.
Here's hoping the terrorism convictions go quickly and without incident.
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