Huey P. Newton Gun Club Members Stage Protests in Dallas Carrying Their Guns

[theworldismine13]

Huey P. Newton Gun Club Members Stage Protests in Dallas Carrying Their Guns
http://atlantablackstar.com/2014/08...-members-stage-protests-dallas-carrying-guns/

A group of African-Americans in Dallas has responded to the spate of police violence against African-Americans by forming an open-carry gun club named after former Black Panther Huey P. Newton that stages protests toting their semiautomatic weapons.
More than 30 members of the newly formed Huey P. Newton Gun Club marched through south Dallas on Wednesday carrying their rifles, shotguns and AR-15s. The group eventually stopped at a restaurant with their weapons, sitting near Dallas police officers who were inside eating lunch.

The Huey P. Newton Gun Club posted a manifesto on its website that explains the circumstances that led to the club’s formation, in addition to a list of three demands that begin with calling for an end to police brutality.

“The recent murders of unarmed black, brown, and whites across the United States of America has eradicated trust in the police,” the group says on its site. “Individuals across this nation have been stripped of due process, subjected to state-sponsored police terrorism, and continue to suffer the fate of being terminated extra-judicially.

“In Dallas the police have murdered over 70 unarmed individuals, most of them black and brown men, over the last ten years. Excluding a recent incident where police testimony was contradicted by surveillance footage, there have been no indictments since 1973.”

The group says it will conduct “armed self-defense patrols through our communities in the coming week.”

These are the group’s demands:

1. We demand the immediate end to police brutality, harassment, and murder of the people.

2. We assert the right of the people, particularly those of color, to bear arms and protect themselves where local, state, and the federal government have historically failed to do so.

3. We demand that the media, in coordination with police, cease immediately assassinating the character of victims subject to police terrorism.

In a YouTube video, the group can be seen lining up in formation with their weapons as they protest the deaths of Michael Brown, the teen shot and killed by a police officer Aug. 9 in Ferguson, Missouri, and Eric Garner, who died July 17 as a result of a police chokehold in Staten Island, New York.

 

[Black smoke and cac jokes]

Black Excellence ​

 

[Hiphoplives4eva]

We need more of this definitely

 

[Danie84]

This is a beautiful BLACKEXCELLENCE sight to see

...Huey found out in the constitution that you could carried a rifle in public, as long as you weren't pointing it at someone

 

[theworldismine13]

This is a beautiful BLACKEXCELLENCE sight to see

...Huey found out in the constitution that you could carried a rifle in public, as long as you weren't pointing it at someone

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/09/the-secret-history-of-guns/308608/

The Panthers, however, took it to an extreme, carrying their guns in public, displaying them for everyone—especially the police—to see. Newton had discovered, during classes at San Francisco Law School, that California law allowed people to carry guns in public so long as they were visible, and not pointed at anyone in a threatening way.
In February of 1967, Oakland police officers stopped a car carrying Newton, Seale, and several other Panthers with rifles and handguns. When one officer asked to see one of the guns, Newton refused. “I don’t have to give you anything but my identification, name, and address,” he insisted. This, too, he had learned in law school.

“Who in the hell do you think you are?” an officer responded.

“Who in the hell do you think you are?,” Newton replied indignantly. He told the officer that he and his friends had a legal right to have their firearms.

Newton got out of the car, still holding his rifle.

“What are you going to do with that gun?” asked one of the stunned policemen.

“What are you going to do with your gun?,” Newton replied.

By this time, the scene had drawn a crowd of onlookers. An officer told the bystanders to move on, but Newton shouted at them to stay. California law, he yelled, gave civilians a right to observe a police officer making an arrest, so long as they didn’t interfere. Newton played it up for the crowd. In a loud voice, he told the police officers, “If you try to shoot at me or if you try to take this gun, I’m going to shoot back at you, swine.” Although normally a black man with Newton’s attitude would quickly find himself handcuffed in the back of a police car, enough people had gathered on the street to discourage the officers from doing anything rash. Because they hadn’t committed any crime, the Panthers were allowed to go on their way.

The people who’d witnessed the scene were dumbstruck. Not even Bobby Seale could believe it. Right then, he said, he knew that Newton was the “baddest motherfukker in the world.” Newton’s message was clear: “The gun is where it’s at and about and in.” After the February incident, the Panthers began a regular practice of policing the police. Thanks to an army of new recruits inspired to join up when they heard about Newton’s bravado, groups of armed Panthers would drive around following police cars. When the police stopped a black person, the Panthers would stand off to the side and shout out legal advice.

Don Mulford, a conservative Republican state assemblyman from Alameda County, which includes Oakland, was determined to end the Panthers’ police patrols. To disarm the Panthers, he proposed a law that would prohibit the carrying of a loaded weapon in any California city. When Newton found out about this, he told Seale, “You know what we’re going to do? We’re going to the Capitol.” Seale was incredulous. “The Capitol?” Newton explained: “Mulford’s there, and they’re trying to pass a law against our guns, and we’re going to the Capitol steps.” Newton’s plan was to take a select group of Panthers “loaded down to the gills,” to send a message to California lawmakers about the group’s opposition to any new gun control.

The Panthers’ methods provoked an immediate backlash. The day of their statehouse protest, lawmakers said the incident would speed enactment of Mulford’s gun-control proposal. Mulford himself pledged to make his bill even tougher, and he added a provision barring anyone but law enforcement from bringing a loaded firearm into the state capitol.

Republicans in California eagerly supported increased gun control. Governor Reagan told reporters that afternoon that he saw “no reason why on the street today a citizen should be carrying loaded weapons.” He called guns a “ridiculous way to solve problems that have to be solved among people of good will.” In a later press conference, Reagan said he didn’t “know of any sportsman who leaves his home with a gun to go out into the field to hunt or for target shooting who carries that gun loaded.” The Mulford Act, he said, “would work no hardship on the honest citizen.”

The fear inspired by black people with guns also led the United States Congress to consider new gun restrictions, after the summer of 1967 brought what the historian Harvard Sitkoff called the “most intense and destructive wave of racial violence the nation had ever witnessed.” Devastating riots engulfed Detroit and Newark. Police and National Guardsmen who tried to help restore order were greeted with sniper fire.

 

[Gains]

lets see if those gun laws in Tx change

 

[newworldafro]

So I have to ask......are the same posters that were upset about the white Open Carry group marching in Houston black neighborhood upset about this or feel differently. Because the both groups seem to state they support the ability for people of all colors to have that ability protected.....

 

[Serious]

lets see if those gun laws in Tx change

@Primetime21
@Suicide King

yall know what to do

 

[Gains]

@Primetime21
@Suicide King

yall know what to do

man rape is gross

 

[Crakface]

I thought it was in response to those cacs trying to march through houston with open carry rifles. I guess this is how they'll to get weapon laws passed in Texas. nikkas with guns.

 

[Meta Reign]

Black Excellence ​

 

[DonRe]

That's a powerful statement and one that needs to be echoed in every minority community. Black Power

 

[Mr. Pink]

What is the second guy from the left(between the AR and the SKS) carrying?

 

[Momentum]

This is a beautiful BLACKEXCELLENCE sight to see

...Huey found out in the constitution that you could carried a rifle in public, as long as you weren't pointing it at someone

State law.

 

[humble forever]

you know those cops lost their appetite and were clenching hard af