Newton Gun Club, and the African American Defense League, which following Thursday night’s shootings by calling for attacks on “everything in blue except the mail man.” On Facebook, Johnson “liked” the New Black Panther Party, the Black Riders Liberation Party, the Huey P. He said he did not know Johnson personally but recognized him from gatherings to commemorate black historical events. Omowale said the club was founded in August 2014 in the wake of black teenager Michael Brown’s fatal shooting by police in Ferguson, Missouri, and organizes armed groups under Texas’s “open-carry” gun laws to monitor police and drug activity. Every man and woman has his breaking point, and we just think Micah got to his breaking point before anyone else.” “We can understand how the conditions of America today pushed that man to respond how he did. “We don’t condone it, we don’t support it, but we understand it,” Omowale told Reuters. Newton Gun Club, a Dallas-based black militia that performs armed community patrols, said Johnson came to black community events in Dallas. law enforcement on Friday, highlighting the role of little known organizations that rail against racial injustice and police abuses.īabu Omowale, the co-founder of the Huey P. Micah Xavier Johnson’s links with the groups were being investigated by U.S. Micah Xavier Johnson, a man suspected by Dallas Police in a shooting attack and who was killed during a manhunt, is seen in an undated photo from his Facebook account.

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