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TexasTowelie

(120,793 posts)
Wed Aug 30, 2017, 06:00 AM Aug 2017

Armed militia surrounding peaceful protests in Kansas City sets nerves on edge

In Kansas City, the occasional rallies beside the Country Club Plaza have long been the kinds of political protests you can attend with the whole family.

You can make a protest sign with poster board and markers, walk down to the J.C. Nichols Memorial Fountain and participate in democracy — maybe your kids will get to see a police horse.

But these days, you might look around to see you’ve got company: two dozen militia members watching over the protest, openly carrying handguns and rifles.

At least three times this summer in Kansas City, armed militia — from a group called Three Percent United Patriots — have appeared at protest rallies. They monitored two protests last weekend.

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article169468537.html

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Armed militia surrounding peaceful protests in Kansas City sets nerves on edge (Original Post) TexasTowelie Aug 2017 OP
Sooner or later, we are going to have to take action against gangs of white wing racists Hoyt Aug 2017 #1
They need to be nykym Aug 2017 #2
 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
1. Sooner or later, we are going to have to take action against gangs of white wing racists
Wed Aug 30, 2017, 06:26 AM
Aug 2017

that show up in public armed. The stupid white wingers can show up like almost everyone else -- unarmed.

nykym

(3,063 posts)
2. They need to be
Wed Aug 30, 2017, 09:20 AM
Aug 2017

photographed and documented and posted online for all to see who they really are.

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