When Trans People Are Cut Out of Sports in Nassau County, New York
Republican organizes militia. Democratic Party chair retorts: ‘Does he think we’re going to be invaded by Suffolk County?’
Yesterday, the New York Times published a 36-paragraph story about an armed group in Nassau County, New York. It’s “A Trump Ally Is Training 75 Armed Citizens. Is That a Militia?” by Corey Kilgannon.
A Militia in Suburban New York
A few months ago, Trump-supporting Nassau County executive Bruce Blakeman appealed to people who had gun permits, asking if they’d be willing to serve as “provisional emergency special deputy sheriffs.” Yes, there’s an online petition against this group, but if online petitions could stop militias, the world would be a different place. Blakeman has already trained 25 people who’ve applied, and he wants to triple that. He’s got another 75 applicants in the pipeline. He won’t say who they are, only that they’re “a mix of retired police officials, former veterans and other emergency responders and one bank chairman,” as the Times reports.
People have observed, in the Times’s phrasing, that his group amounts to “an unsanctioned militia answering only to him” and is “an implied threat to minorities and political…
