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Connecticut residents form armed group
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Posted By: Mercedes44, 6/8/2024 7:16:59 AM

A predominantly Black neighborhood in Hartford, Connecticut, hoping to fend off violent crime, has turned to an armed group of citizens to patrol their streets by land and by air. The so-called "Self-Defense Brigade" — made up of about 40 legally armed citizens — are voluntarily patrolling the streets of Hartford’s North End wearing body cameras mostly on nights and weekends, according to the group’s founder, Cornell Lewis. When the armed volunteers are not on the streets, the group monitors video feeds from a dozen drones hovering over the neighborhood, and 75 home surveillance cameras in the neighborhood.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Pepperpot59 6/8/2024 7:24:17 AM (No. 1733455)
This is what citizens must do when they government fails at their number one task to restrain evil.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: woodenleg 6/8/2024 7:48:25 AM (No. 1733476)
Something in that pesky 2nd amendment....about a militia....a militia being the armed citizenry....
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Highlander 6/8/2024 7:57:05 AM (No. 1733482)
This is exactly what God has given to us from the beginning; the right to defend one’s family, property, and person. Anyway, why should criminals have all the guns?
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Reply 4 - Posted by: OkieTom 6/8/2024 8:00:05 AM (No. 1733484)
Hip Hip HOORAY!! Would like to send them some ammo.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: seamusm 6/8/2024 8:05:27 AM (No. 1733490)
VERY appropriate. But sad it has come to this. Elections MATTER!
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Mizz Fixxit 6/8/2024 8:28:39 AM (No. 1733504)
The founder of this armed citizen patrol provided a succinct, irrefutable statement that applies to every democrat run crime ridden city: “The Democratic machine in Hartford is either unwilling or unable, incapable of doing it, and people are paying their tax dollars, and they're not really getting any kind of service," Lewis told Fox News.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: privateer 6/8/2024 8:47:39 AM (No. 1733511)
There was a peaceful town called Rockridge...
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Reply 8 - Posted by: rytwng 6/8/2024 9:24:31 AM (No. 1733533)
We need Paul Kersey. More dead thugs the better.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Ragman73 6/8/2024 10:03:04 AM (No. 1733563)
Dan Bongino asks the question "Is it bad enough yet?". Well, it looks like in East Hartford, many of the residents think so.... People are realizing who the" enemy" is, and it's not the Police. Sadly, I suspect this trend will have to spread to other areas of the country for citizens to take back their communities. Government has failed the people.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: DVC 6/8/2024 10:28:21 AM (No. 1733588)
They should call them Vigilance Teams. History repeating itself. Drip, drip, drip.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: itsonlyme 6/8/2024 10:47:53 AM (No. 1733606)
Make sure the guillotines are lubricated. It should make things "smoother".
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Reply 12 - Posted by: readtheBook 6/8/2024 11:04:33 AM (No. 1733624)
Sounds like an American solution.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: mifla 6/8/2024 11:18:34 AM (No. 1733635)
More and more data points suggesting that people have had it with the current state of their lives, and they know who is responsible.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: WhamDBambam 6/8/2024 11:24:28 AM (No. 1733644)
I.e. Protection from their own government.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: MindMadeUp 6/8/2024 12:39:20 PM (No. 1733681)
If this were a predominantly White Republican neighborhood, they'd all be in jail by now.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: mc squared 6/8/2024 5:44:49 PM (No. 1733762)
The government failed in its duties. Are they afraid that too many minorities would be arrested? Or silenced?
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