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Chief of black-only NFAC militia ‘Grandmaster Jay’ arrested and faces 20 years in jail on federal prices
John Fitzgerald Johnson, higher generally known as ‘Grandmaster Jay,’ was arrested and charged with pointing a rifle at federal brokers and Louisville, Kentucky police throughout a protest, which may land him in jail for 20 years.
Johnson was arrested on Thursday and booked right into a Louisville jail on federal prices, NBC affiliate WAVE-TV reported. Unbiased journalist Ford Fischer posted images of the charging paperwork.
The ultimate federal cost is for allegedly "Assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers or staff."
This can be a 20-year felony. pic.twitter.com/ANgVu5BL9q
— Ford Fischer (@FordFischer) December three, 2020
The incident allegedly came about on September four, when Johnson and his NFAC (Not F***ing Round Coalition) gathered to protest the killing of Louisville, Kentucky resident Breonna Taylor in a police raid. Whereas Taylor was fatally shot in March, protests escalated following the Might loss of life of George Floyd in Minnesota and the following wave of Black Lives Matter riots throughout the US.
In line with the affidavit, Johnson pointed his rifle within the course of Louisville PD officers – who had been apparently federally deputized – wanting over the gang of protesters from the rooftops of close by buildings.
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Although closely armed, NFAC has not truly dedicated any acts of violence throughout the protests it was concerned with. On one event, on the finish of July, a member of the group by accident shot himself and two colleagues together with his personal rifle at a Louisville protest.
The group confirmed up in Lafayette, Louisiana in September and marched to chants of “Black Energy” to protest the police capturing of Trayford Pellerin, an African-American man killed the month earlier than.
One particular person was arrested for by accident discharging a firearm throughout that protest, however NFAC instructed reporters that the particular person was not a part of their group.
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Johnson has no prior convictions and reportedly served within the US navy within the 1990s. He’s a black separatist, who instructed RT that he desires the US to “give us our personal land right here, so we are able to go in, arrange our personal authorities and the entire 9 yards” throughout an unique interview in June.
His long-term objective, nonetheless, is “an exodus to Africa, to determine our future and construct our personal nation – and get a seat on the UN like everyone else,” he stated.
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