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A refusal to acknowledge US laws, belief in UFOs and selling fake passports to pay for their abandoned house HQ: The inside story of the 'Rise of the Moors' militia who hit the headlines after stand-off with Massachusetts cops 11 'armed and dangerous' men who claimed to be part of an extremist group known as 'Rise of the Moors' were taken into custody on Saturday outside Boston The men were arrested after an nine-hour standoff with Massachusetts police They claimed to be part of 'a militia' group based in Pawtucket, Rhode Island that does 'does not recognize' US laws Rise of the Moors are an offshoot a rapidly growing, larger antigovernment group known as 'Moorish sovereign citizens' that began in the late 1990s They believe that a bogus US treaty with Morocco from 1787 allows them to belong to their own sovereign nation and therefore not subject to any US laws They also claim that its followers are the 'aboriginal people' of the US The group takes its teachings partly from a religious sect known as the Moorish Science Temple founded by Noble Drew Ali, dating back to 1913 Rise of the Moors have a large social media presence, with more than 17,000 subscribers to the group's YouTube channel By Tate Delloye For Dailymail.comPublished: 18:13 EDT, 5 July 2021 | Updated: 19:47 EDT, 5 July 2021 ... Story here
'We're a local militia from Rhode Island': Moment Rise of the Moors militia sparked nine-hour interstate stand-off after refusing to drop their weapons during traffic stop and telling cops 'we're heading to Maine for training' Footage reveals the cops interactions with the group's purported leader Jamhal Tavon Sanders Latimer, 29 Latimer tells the cop that he has no driver's license, no social security number and no license to carry his firearms After refusing to comply with an order to drop their weapons, several men took off into a nearby woodland area They were arrested and charged with armed standoff 'Rise of the Moors' group is part of the sovereign citizen movement Members were arrested after fleeing from police into woods outside Boston They face several charges including unlawful possession of a firearmBy Brian Stieglitz For Dailymail.ComPublished: 17:03 EDT, 11 July 2021 | Updated: 09:44 EDT, 12 July 2021This is the moment cops confronted the leader of Rise of the Moors and he refused to drop his weapons when the citizen militia refueled at the side of Massachusetts interstate - sparking a nine-hour armed stand-off.Police body camera footage showed Massachusetts State Police approaching two cars with their hazard lights on parked on the shoulder of Interstate-95, near the town of Wakefield, around 1.30am on July 3. The group of heavily armed men were refilling gas tanks with their own fuel and told law enforcement that they were headed to Maine for 'training.' ...