#616 - ‘Rise of the Moors’ Standoff Shuts Down I-95: Who Are They and What Do They Believe?

Over the weekend, a bizarre roadside standoff on a major highway in Massachusetts stymied holiday traffic for nearly nine hours before ending in 11 arrests of people from a militia group called Rise of the Moors, who law enforcement said described themselves as adhering to “Moorish sovereign ideology.”

A little before 2 a.m. on Saturday, a Massachusetts State Trooper noticed two cars stopped on Interstate 95 with their hazard lights on, and people outside the cars attempting to fill up their gas tanks, so he pulled over. Police said the officer encountered several men dressed in military fatigues and armed with handguns and rifles. They did not have licenses to carry firearms. The men claimed they were traveling from Rhode Island to Maine for “training,” according to police. They reportedly refused to put down their weapons, at least initially, wouldn’t show identification, and some fled into nearby woods while the officer called for backup.

“You can imagine, 11 armed individuals standing with long guns slung on an interstate highway at two in the morning certainly raises concerns and is not consistent with the firearms laws that we have here in Massachusetts,” State Police Col. Christopher Mason told reporters Saturday morning.

Join your host Sean Reynolds, owner of Summit Properties NW and Reynolds & Kline Appraisal as he takes a look at this developing topic.

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