NY Republican Plans To Launch Armed Citizen Militia

April 10, 2024 Republicans, Trump cultists

The Daily Beast reports:

A Republican politician on Long Island—who just last week held an umbrella over former President Donald Trump’s head at the wake for a slain New York City police officer—has come under fire over a controversial plan to organize what critics contend is essentially a “personal militia.”

“This is open season to kill,” Barbara Powell, the president of Hempstead’s NAACP branch, declared on Tuesday at a rally protesting Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman’s plan, which involves the creation of a list of deputized, armed civilians that can be deployed during emergencies.

Long Island’s ABC affiliate reports:

Nassau County’s Democratic legislators joined with advocacy groups and residents Monday to call on Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman to abandon his plans for what they’re calling a county militia.

Blakeman says he wants to deputize pre-screened citizens with gun licenses so they can be called upon in cases of “significant emergency” to protect government buildings, hospitals, religious centers and utilities – but not to patrol.

He says that some of the more than 100 applicants will begin training this week, and that it will take at least 30 days before he has 25 or so people available, if needed to be called upon.

From NassauCountyNY.gov:



New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) Nassau County Chapter Director Susan Gottehrer, Rockville Centre resident Laura Burns from Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, National Organization for Women (NOW) Nassau Chapter President Patty Pastor, leaders of the Hempstead NAACP and Elmont resident and retired New York City Corrections Officer Angel Joyner, joined Minority Leader DeRiggi-Whitton and the full Democratic caucus in denouncing the plan.

“Deputizing armed citizens – with no training, no experience, and no knowledge of how to handle what he or any County Executive deems a state of emergency – will most assuredly foster and promote lawlessness during an emergency and may in fact endanger the lives of our law enforcement as well as other residents,” said Nassau County Legislature Deputy Minority Leader Arnold W. Drucker (D – Plainview).

“This is yet another disturbing example of our County Executive veering so far out of his lane and devoting his attention to issues that don’t exist or aren’t likely to ever exist. The authorization of an armed militia in these scenarios is downright dangerous.”

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