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Black coalition leader charged with pointing gun at police before Kentucky Derby
https://www.whas11.com/article/news/...4-01fe48565600The leader of a Black militia group that protested in Louisville has been arrested and accused of pointing a rifle at officers during a protest on Sep. 4. He was arrested at his home in West Chester, Ohio and brought to the Oldham County Jail.
NFAC leader John Fitzgerald Johnson, also known as Grandmaster Jay, has been charged with assaulting, resisting or impeding certain officers after he allegedly aimed an AR platform rifle at members of the U.S. Secret Service and LMPD while they were on the roof of the Jefferson County Grand Jury building.
According to a criminal complaint, officers were conducting watch over a crowd at Jefferson Square Park that night when they heard six to eight heavily armed people were parked on Armory Place.
When the officers went to look down on Armory Place, they were "blinded by a light which they shortly thereafter determined was a flashlight mounted to the rifle" Johnson pointed.
The leader of the Not F***ing Around Coalition, an armed Black group that made several trips to Louisville to demand justice for Breonna Taylor, has been arrested on federal charges after allegedly pointing an assault weapon at law enforcement officials.
According to a criminal complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky on Wednesday, John "Grandmaster Jay" Johnson "forcibly assaulted, resisted, opposed, impeded, intimidated, and interfered with federally deputized task force officers" on Sept. 4, the day before the Kentucky Derby.
Johnson, 57, of West Chester, Ohio, was booked into the Oldham County Detention Center in La Grange on Thursday afternoon, according to jail records. He was arrested at his home Thursday and appeared before a federal judge in Louisville in the afternoon, according to a press release from U.S. Attorney Russell Coleman's office.https://www.courier-journal.com/stor...nt/3813252001/If convicted, Johnson faces up to 20 years in federal prison.
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