The feds that is. Earlier this week they sentenced Grandmaster Jay, the leader of the Not Fucking Around Coalition (NFAC), to 86 months in federal prison.
Here in the US we have a long history (see COINTELPRO) of the feds killing or imprisoning on specious charges those that don't worship at the altar of Uncle Sam. Some things never change it seems.
Grandmaster Jay (above, slightly left of center with AR pointed skyward and BDU pattern vest) was sentenced for assaulting LMPD officers on a rooftop by pointing a rifle in their direction. Considering how little it takes for cops to open fire on black people it beggars belief that a black man could point a rifle at cops and nary a shot be fired.
Pointing guns at cops is bad, right? They tend to get very excited when you do. Some context is probably necessary to understand what happened and why. On the first night of protests here in Louisville seven people were shot by still unknown assailant(s). Back before January 6th made them famous the Oath Keepers and Three Percenters were running around downtown Louisville, armed to the teeth and looking for trouble. A couple self proclaimed militia types had been caught attempting to play sniper from the top of a downtown parking garage.
Think you could tell the folks in the photo above from the cops, at night and atop multistory buildings?
Pretty much have to use some sort of optics, either a scope or a long lens.
It was one of the more dystopian parts of the protests in 2020, you could spot snipers on rooftops all around you but only rarely did you have any idea who it was pointing guns at you.
The day after the incident that is being used to incarcerate Grandmaster Jay, hundreds of militia types rushed the square where people where protesting downtown, shoving people and waving firearms about. The only thing more conspicuous than LMPDs absence was the complete lack of charges for any of it. Coming on the heels of that it makes Jay's seven years in the federal penitentiary seem all the more political and targeted.
Photos are all from NFAC's first visit to Louisville on July 25, 2020. The charges against Grandmaster Jay stem from their second visit, in early September 2020.
