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3 Jul, 45 tweets, 16 min read
1. This happened in the Wakefield/Reading area north of Boston. 11 arrested.

One of the men "told the trooper they were on their way to Maine from Rhode Island for "training.""

They are with Rise of the Moors.
riseofthemoors.org
2. They claim not to be sovereign citizens because "When we declare our nationality as Moorish Americans we are taking back the position as the aboriginal people of the land, to which the sovereign power is vested in."

riseofthemoors.org/faq.html
archive.ph/wyv2k
3. Like sovereign citizens, they don't pay taxes.

riseofthemoors.org/faq.html
archive.ph/wyv2k
4. They're into taking property they don't own via adverse possession (aka squatter's rights).

riseofthemoors.org/exodus.html
archive.ph/IDfiF

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adverse_p…
5. One of the men posted a video online claiming "We are not antigovernment. We are not anti-police, we are not sovereign citizens, we're not Black identity extremists," said the man who appeared to be wearing military-style equipment. ...
6. … "As specified multiple times to the police that we are abiding by the peaceful journey laws of the United States."
7. Massachusetts State Police Col. Christopher Mason said at a press conference that he couldn’t confirm they were "validated members” of the Rise of the Moors and they had no familiarity with this particular group ...

nbcboston.com/news/local/wha…
8. … but it’s not uncommon for them to have contact with people with this type of ideology and they train on “these interactions and how to de-escalate those situations”.
9. Press conference about the I-95 standoff with 11 heavily armed Moors in Wakefield/Reading with Massachusetts law enforcement agencies from earlier today.

10. Just found the video mentioned in tweet #5. They believe they haven’t violated any laws.

Important to note that law enforcement took everyone into custody without incident.

11. They have their own flag and think that they have a treaty with the US government.

Apparently they handed over a copy of “Younger [sic] v. the state of Hawaii” as proof they weren’t breaking any laws by carrying firearms openly.

12. He said this was a Supreme Court case.

He’s probably referring to Young v. Hawaii, which challenged Hawaii’s requirements for obtaining a concealed carry license.

harvardlawreview.org/2019/05/young-…
13. Judge Jay Bybee found that Hawaii’s concealed carry license requirements don’t violate the Second Amendment.

Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals opinion from 3/24/21:

cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opin…
14. I’m not finding anything that indicates that Young v. Hawaii was appealed to the US Supreme Court, although they did agree to hear New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Corlett.

scotusblog.com/case-files/cas…
newrepublic.com/article/162183…
15. MSP Col. Christopher Mason said at the press conference that he believed they were breaking “269 12 D”.

“The main issue would be that they're carrying both long guns & handgun on a public way—a interstate in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.”
16. MSP Col. Christopher Mason continued:

“You’re not allowed to carry a loaded or unloaded firearm on a public way in Massachusetts. It’s an arrestable offense.”
17. Col. Mason is referring to Chapter 269 Section 12D of the Massachusetts General Laws.

"Rifle or shotgun loaded with shells or cartridges; unloaded rifle or shotgun; carrying on public way prohibited; exceptions; punishment”

malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLa…
18. Although the man who was streaming last night yelled at law enforcement “We have no intentions on fleeing! We have no intentions on being hostile!” (Timestamp: 3:48) they did eventually flee into the woods.

19. Man on stream:

“I personally handed them federal laws specifying how the militia is exempt from certain restrictions."
20. Timestamp: 12:19

“You’re in violation of the Constitution of the United States of America. The same Constitution to which you swore an oath to protect. You’re in violation of the treaty of peace and friendship between our two nations.” 🤔

21.

“Once again, we request to speak to a ranking officer to diffuse the situation PEACEFULLY!!!"
22. I’m too tired to look up all the laws and cases he claims show that they were within their rights to do what they were doing. Any lawyers want to watch and weigh in?

23. Just worked out who the man in the streams is. His name is Jamhal Talib Abdullah Bey, Moorish American Consular Post Head. The website claims he’s a former Marine.

riseofthemoors.org/consular-affai…
24. His bio links to this 3+ hour video on a channel called 9 Mind News 101 that has 10K subscribers.

25. Second stream from last night that Bey said was around 4am:

“We are in North America, Morocco..."

26. Timestamp: 2:26:

“Our vehicle is full of camping equipment which supports what I said about how we’re going to our private land to train, which is our Second Amendment right."

27. Bey said that reason they were refueling on the side of the road with “gas tanks” (they look like gas cans) was to “avoid having to stop at gas stations so that way we don’t alert the public and there’s no need for them to be here.”
28.

“We had planned to fill up these fuel tanks [sic] so that way we don’t have to make any unnecessary stops so that way we could have just passed through their state."
29. Bey hands the camera over to another man so he can talk to law enforcement on the phone off camera.
30. Timestamp: 4:59

Other guy: “We’re here with our nation’s flag, and they’re violatin’ foreign treaties. We are not US citizens, we’re Americans—American nationals.”

🤨

31. Again, Massachusetts law enforcement in the Boston suburbs apprehended 11 heavily armed black people (not sure if they are all male) who self identify as members of a “militia” called the Rise of the Moors without hurting anyone.

32. The Republican, a Springfield, MA newspaper appears to have been 1st to report Bey’s name & position in the Rise of the Moors. I found his name by looking up his phone number which he gave to law enforcement while streaming.

archive.ph/T1BiG

masslive.com/police-fire/20…
33. Update:

The Rise of the Moors have made the 3 videos I linked private, although older videos are still up at their channel for now.

youtube.com/channel/UCe-ft…
34. This video is still up for now.

35. Sorry I forgot to get archives and screenshots but the titles of the streams on Rise of the Moors / JamhalsFlicks channel I quoted from were:

- “Peaceful” (tweets 11, 18-22)
- “Moroccan peace” (tweet 25-30)
- "We are not anti government” (tweets 5, 6, 10)
36. I didn’t have time to try to download them. If you see them mirrored elsewhere, please send links. My DMs are open.
37. The Moorish American Consulate used to have a website although it’s no longer up. You can view an archive here. This looks similar to other sovereign citizen websites I’ve looked at.

web.archive.org/web/2019033012…
37. Here’s the "Moorish American Consulate Notice of Existence”. Scribd login required to view past page 1.

scribd.com/document/41375…
38. Based on what law enforcement has released so far there's no indication this is true.

Mass State Police shut down I-95 for public safety & surrounded them on all sides after coming across them on the side of the road thinking they needed assistance.

archive.ph/hVaBu
39. These people are self-styled militia members who think they have a treaty with the US.

40. In one of their brief livestreams last nigh,t Jamhal Talib Abdullah Bey, Moorish American Consular Post Head said they were surrounded including law enforcement in the woods off the side of the highway.

Read from the top:

41. Update:

Group expected to be arraigned on Tues morning.

They are based on Pawtucket, Rhode Island.

FBI now involved in investigation.

Clip of one of the now removed streams in WCVB segment:

42. Update:

The leader of Rise of the Moors has been identified as Jahmal Latimer aka Jamhal Talib Abdullah Bey (as noted upthread).

Rhode Island law enforcement were aware of the group.

boston.cbslocal.com/2021/07/03/jah…

43. WBZ security analyst & former Boston police commissioner Ed Davis referred to the Rise of the Moors as “terrorists” in the segment above and said "they talked about tactically attacking police officers who were attempting to do their duty”.

Assorted clips included.
44. Davis:

“What they’re saying after they get caught is simply an attempt to position themselves publicly as poor unfortunate people that are just exercising their Constitutional rights. There’s a thin veil over what they’re really doing which is training as terrorists."

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