CBC News
They’re armed, trained on the use of their weapons and with a duty, they say, to uphold the U.S. Constitution.
Armed groups of private citizens have increasingly been taking on a security function at public events where the possibility of violent protest exists, including the past weekend at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va.
“We’ve seen violent clashes in the past between the left and the right, that’s nothing new,” says Daryl Johnson, who spent years as a Department of Homeland Security analyst. The new wrinkle, he says, is “guys walking around in military garb with guns. You think that’s the police but in reality it’s the local militia or The Three Percenters.” Continue reading “Militias a ‘chilling’ presence at rallies but few signs of violence, so far”