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Dozens of people walked through the streets of Birmingham's Kingston community Sunday- several of them openly carrying long guns – following last week's shooting of a 28-year-old man during a confrontation with police.

 

Today's rally was not a protest, said Avee-Ashanti Shabazz and Mercutio Southall, co-founders of Birmingham's Black Lives Matter Also-Birmingham, but an effort to educate the residents of their gun rights and their human rights. "The residents have a right to their humanity, the right not to be terrorized by police,'' Shabazz said.

 

Shabazz' second-cousin, Courtney Gadsden, was shot by Birmingham police Oct. 13. Birmingham police spokesman Lt. Sean Edwards two officers stopped a suspicious vehicle near the intersection of Kingston Avenue and 47th Street just after 8 p.m. He said as the officers approached the vehicle they gave commands to the motorist, but he didn't comply.

 

The driver got out and continued to refuse compliance, Edwards said. One of the officers deployed his stun gun. It is not yet clear if the stun gun struck him. At that point, the second officer saw the man was holding a weapon and fired on him, Edwards said. The gun was recovered at the scene. Edwards said "several shots" were fired. None of them were fired by the suspect.

 

The State Bureau of Investigation is investigating the shooting. The two officers, whose names haven't been released, were placed on leave, which is standard procedure for all officer-involved shootings.

 

Gadsden remains hospitalized at UAB Hospital. His family says he was shot five times, has a bullet lodged in his spine and is paralyzed from the waist down. His mother, Charlotte Gadsden, was at today's rally. She said she didn't find out her son was shot until 20 hours after it happened, while she was on her way to her second job. She said she went to the hospital but initially wasn't allowed to see him. She said she doesn't know many of the circumstances of the shooting.

 

"I'm not asking him what happened, I'm just being a mom,'' she said. "I just want justice for my son, and every other black man in America."

 

Shabazz said he doesn't know all of the details surround the shooting of his cousin, who is a convicted felon and has served time in prison, according to court records. Shabazz said he, too, wasn't at liberty to discuss what few details he knows about his cousin's shooting but said he believes there is more to the story. "Courtney's no angel, but that doesn't justify him being gunned down,'' he said.

 

Several dozen people gathered at the site of the shooting at noon Sunday. "We're done with protests,'' Southall said. "This is about empowering the people."

 

Shabazz said the culture that exists in Kingston and elsewhere is one of "heavy-handed and overzealous" policing. "The white community doesn't understand the harassment and violation of rights that happens here,'' he said.

 

"They harass us constantly because they think a bunch of black people can't get together without drama,'' said 47-year-old Kingston resident Anthony Robinson. "We ain't got no rights around here. It shouldn't be that way."

 

Shabazz said many residents don't know their rights, so when police approach them, they run for fear of being arrested, or worse, and that's when trouble happens. "It's to the officers' benefit that these people know their rights,'' Shabazz said.

 

The group – men, women and children- walked through neighborhoods for nearly two hours Sunday, speaking with residents and handing out copies of their constitutional rights. The crowd grew as they walked, but the rally remained peaceful.

 

Several Birmingham police officers followed along on the route, but stayed a block or two behind. The officers said as long as it remained peaceful and lawful, they didn't plan to disrupt the rally in any way.

 

Organizers said there will be more rallies to come. "They need to know their gun rights, as well as their human rights so as to protect themselves, their community and law enforcement,'' Shabazz said.

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Well Momma, just maybe if your precious little felon would obey commands and not draw a firearm on the police, he wouldn't get shot.

No pity party here, cold facts of life.

 

Whenever I see pics of wanna-be black militants, I always feel better afterwards.

I know that I've more firearms laying around out of the safe, than they seem to have combined.

And I'm willing to bet that barring prior military service, I'm better trained with my guns than they're.

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I'm honestly on the fence about this one. I support everyone's right to defend themselves, yes, even some felons, and I think it's better for the 2nd amendment as a whole if more people understand its root meaning. And I think they try to divide everyone and say 'only redneck whites who hate coloreds are into the 2A, so if you see it, you know what it is.' So its good for them to understand it, on a totally localized stage.

On the other hand, I know what it is: a drawmn up capaign, under the guise of an ethic equality, by some socialists who are running plays from old commie handbooks. And we're buying it, as a whole.

I'm honestly on the fence about this one. I support everyone's right to defend themselves, yes, even some felons, and I think it's better for the 2nd amendment as a whole if more people understand its root meaning. And I think they try to divide everyone and say 'only redneck whites who hate coloreds are into the 2A, so if you see it, you know what it is.' So its good for them to understand it, on a totally localized stage.

On the other hand, I know what it is: a drawmn up capaign, under the guise of an ethic equality group, by some socialists who are running plays from old commie handbooks. And we're buying it, as a whole.

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Shabazz said many residents don't know their rights, so when police approach them, they run for fear of being arrested, or worse, and that's when trouble happens. "It's to the officers' benefit that these people know their rights,'' Shabazz said.

 

The group – men, women and children- walked through neighborhoods for nearly two hours Sunday, speaking with residents and handing out copies of their constitutional rights. The crowd grew as they walked, but the rally remained peaceful.

 

Several Birmingham police officers followed along on the route, but stayed a block or two behind.The officers said as long as it remained peaceful and lawful, they didn't plan to disrupt the rally in any way.                     

 

Well I don't have a problem with people knowing their rights.

 

I have no problem with people assembling peacefully.

 

And looks like the Police are ok with it as well.

 

Open carrying of long guns is legal in AL correct? If so I again don't see a problem.

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With that many guns on the street, just a matter of time til an accidental or negligent discharge happens and it goes to hell.

My first thought as well. This ain't gonna end well.

 

More "proof" the American public can't be trusted with firearms. These dipshits pose a bigger threat than Fine-swine ever did.

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you've got people living in poverty

in what in their minds is a virtual welfare and police state,

where at some point in their lives most on the men have been in jail 

now people are telling them to stand up for their rights and do a show of force and power

while this is not my 1st choice of events I'd support at least it was pro gun by someone other than what the public is starting believe is just some mass murder committing whites.

other than the Native Americans these people have suffered more at the hands of the government than most of us, they haven't understood that handout is not a hand up.

 

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Don't give me any bullshit, its the Why & How they want people to carry & use those guns.

I'm all for their Constitutional Rights and protecting themselves from tyranny and their own people.

They've more to fear from each other than any other group/race on the planet.

But these are wolves in sheep's clothing.

 

Why:

The BLM crowd has their panties in a wad over thugs being killed/wounded.

They're not being terrorized or targeted by the police, the police aren't going through the ghetto systematically beating,imprisoning and killing innocent black children/people.

The facts are their demographic commits more crime/violent crime and thus has more confrontations with LE than any other in the US.

Their attitudes and social skills are generally piss poor and things go down hill very quickly, just look how they tried to 'Talk' with the Mayor of Los Angeles, and in a church no less.

 

How:

The BLM group advocates violence against the police and white people.

They want to arm more blacks and encourage them to use those guns against police and whites.

They want more blacks with more guns, with a even worse and hostile attitude, and what you have then is a powder keg.

They are trying hard to stick a fuse in it and light it.

 

The whole BLM Movement is based on lies, racial hate and bigotry, and it is by far theirs.

The people pulling the strings don't want peace & harmony, they want blood and anarchy.

 

Take those its only a Protest and they're just asserting their 2A Rights comments and stick that where the sun don't shine.

If you believe that shit, well, I've a bridge for sale...  Cheap.

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Thank you Chile for saying what I had to bite my tongue not to.

 

These people aren't victims of the government. They have the government in place that they vote for every cycle. If they are not smart enough to understand that the policies they vote for are designed to keep them in poverty, then that is their fault and not society's.

 

To be clear, when I say "they" I do not mean black people, I mean people of any race that would say life is unfair and since I don't have a chance, why even bother. This is a large portion of the inner city black population, but it also a growing sector of middle class privileged white youth who have never worked for anything, sacrificed for anything, or contributed to anything.

 

I am sick and tired of hearing how people aren't responsible or accountable for their actions. I don't give a crap where you have come from, what life circumstances you have endured, or how hard things have been. YOU are are responsible for the decisions you make. No one else is!

 

BLM in Birmingham are thugs, attention whores, or just plain ignorant people who place skin color ahead of self respect and bettering themselves and their children's children.

 

Guess I should have bitten my tongue.

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I like to think of how many people saw baltimore burning and started questioning if the police are capable of ensuring everyone's safety in an event like that.

I'd like to think a few people took steps to ensure that they would not be victims.

 

 

The carrying of arms does one thing. It holds attendees of the protests to a higher standard.

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guess I didn't write my thoughts very clear (alcohol a great late evening drink but a poor editor of writing)

for one I don't in general support the actions of either BLM the older Bureau of Land Management or later black lives matter movement.

I wouldn't have supported a German lives matter movement in the 1930s or an Arab lives thing today either.

I was pointing out the choice of a gun as a symbol of power was new to the dialog, I found it refreshing that they at least understood the 2nd amendment matters

with the problem being they take the stand that "Whitey" and the police (these type movements always have to have someone to blame and hate) are the source of their oppression not their own crimes or use of drugs along with a system of support by the same government that both pays them a pittance to stay poor and locks them up for doing what is the normal in their neighborhood not trying to rise above it with education and work.

Free your mind

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Aint life in the end times grand?

 

Every painful step, every insane act, every idiotic response is just another step to ending this cancer.

 

So I just watch and sometimes have to remind myself this is all necessary much the same as chemo. 

 

But I aint gotta like it.

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I can't but wonder if/when a pack of firecrackers is going to go off in or near one of these marches, and all hell breaks loose.  unsure.png

 

Who's going to do it? It sure would fix the problem...at least at that moment.

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