Hartford, CT, Mayor Denounces Citizens Arming Themselves to Fight Crime

Hartford, Connecticut’s, Mayor Arunan Arulampalam (D) is denouncing residents of a predominately black community for arming themselves to fight violent crime.

...The brigade was founded by Cornell Lewis, who told FOX News, “The Democrat machine in Hartford is either unwilling or unable, incapable, of doing it, and people are paying their tax dollars, and they’re not really getting any kind of service. So we want the people to understand, number one, self-defense is not a dirty word.”

Lewis noted that everyone in the brigade has a concealed carry permit and carries their firearms legally.
The Post noted the brigade was launched “at the behest of Archbishop Dexter Burke of the Walk in the Light Church of God” after two men were shot dead near his church in February.