Armed with rifles, a ‘mudroots’ Detroit group wards off crime

[Guno צְבִי]

On the eve of Black History Month this year, a community group based in Detroit went viral after sharing clips on social media of its members, many dressed in all-black and armed with long rifles, assisting women around the city by pumping gas into their vehicles and loading groceries into their cars.

The group’s open display of guns — broadly legal in Michigan — was greeted by many people not for being threatening but for protecting Black women in dangerous neighborhoods at night.

The group, New Era Detroit, has been carrying out this kind of public safety work in the city’s most crime-ridden streets for almost a decade.

“We do this out of love,” Nilajah Alonzo, one of the leaders of New Era Detroit, told Yahoo News.

https://news.yahoo.com/armed-with-rifles-a-mudroots-detroit-group-new-era-crime-182026014.html

 

[evince]

Protecting their own neighborhood

Good for them

 

[Nordberg]

They are protecting parking lots of party and liquor stores. A girl got shot a few weeks ago and the owners are trying to supply security.

 

[Matt Dillon]

Sounds like dem "Guardian Angel" types, but with guns. It could work if done the right way by the right people. Very effectively.

I like it!

 

[Lionfish]

On the eve of Black History Month this year, a community group based in Detroit went viral after sharing clips on social media of its members, many dressed in all-black and armed with long rifles, assisting women around the city by pumping gas into their vehicles and loading groceries into their cars.

The group’s open display of guns — broadly legal in Michigan — was greeted by many people not for being threatening but for protecting Black women in dangerous neighborhoods at night.

The group, New Era Detroit, has been carrying out this kind of public safety work in the city’s most crime-ridden streets for almost a decade.

“We do this out of love,” Nilajah Alonzo, one of the leaders of New Era Detroit, told Yahoo News.

https://news.yahoo.com/armed-with-rifles-a-mudroots-detroit-group-new-era-crime-182026014.html

Guano, your point?

Do you hate black people or guns?