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And when the Police won’t, or can’t do their job……<\/p>\n
Armed citizen patrols start in Hartford amid violence concerns.<\/a><\/p>\n A new controversial armed citizen patrol has launched in Hartford.<\/p>\n Organizers say the people will be legally carrying as they walk around parts of the city where violence has taken a toll.<\/p>\n Though some \u2013 including the city\u2019s mayor \u2013 are raising concerns about the effort.<\/p>\n In Hartford\u2019s North End on Saturday, a group of people looked to patrol and clean up Garden Street.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was important\u00a0 to come out here because we believe that we have to keep the community safe, keep the community clean. And we’re doing this by being out here for a few hours, clean up the community, pick up the trash,\u201d said Marcus Long, of Hartford.<\/p>\n Garden Street has seen its share of gun violence including a double homicide in February, which is what prompted the push for civilian armed patrols.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cWe are legally armed and we are patrolling,\u201d said Cornell Lewis, the founder of the Self-Defense Brigade. \u201cThe people on Garden Street came to us and asked us for help.\u201d<\/p>\n While there did not appear to be open carry \u2013 which is banned in Connecticut – organizers previously told us those armed would be licensed and have concealed weapons.<\/p>\n They were part of Minister Cornell Lewis\u2019 Self-Defense Brigade.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are not vigilantes. We are a group of people that are disciplined and trained. We go to the shooting range,\u201d said Lewis.<\/p>\n The effort faces opposition including from an anti-violence group and the Hartford mayor.<\/a><\/p>\n Mayor Arunan Arulampalam wrote in part: The mayor added that the city did not need people being trained to walk the streets with guns and trying to take the law into their own hands.<\/p>\n Earlier, there was a talk about gun rights including how to get a permit, safe storage and carry and personal use.<\/p>\n The founder of the brigade says they plan to do the patrols a few times a week.\u00a0\u201cWe’ll be patrolling at night. So it’s not just a one-time thing. It’s going to be on a consistent basis,\u201d said Lewis.<\/p>\n Organizers argue the patrols are needed and they have plans to expand them to other parts of the city.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a1Grupos de Autodefensas Comunitaria Para Mi y Tu! And when the Police won’t, or can’t do their job…… Armed citizen patrols start in Hartford amid violence concerns. A new controversial armed citizen patrol has launched in Hartford. Organizers say the people will be legally carrying as they walk around parts of the city where violence … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,29,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goobermint","category-safety","category-self-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100643,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100640\/revisions\/100643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n“Our community has seen so much pain and trauma, and what we need is for those who love this city to do the hard work of healing that pain.\u201d<\/p>\n