Key Points
- Leaders of the New Black Panther Party announced they would be deploying armed guards to a number of polling places in the Atlanta area to monitor “white supremacist violence.”
- “No one will come and touch, harm, threaten, do anything to any person walking into that voting booth to exercise that right,” Khallida Ramla Bastet said during a press conference.
- The New Black Panther Party was founded in 1989 in Dallas, Texas, as a black nationalist group that is anti-capitalist and seeks to fight the oppression of black and brown communities.
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