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Media Prevented From Covering Start of Militia Leader’s Trial

Media Prevented From Covering Start of Militia Leader’s Trial
Grandmaster Jay, left, leader of NFAC, leads a march in Louisville, Ky., on July 25, 2020. Brett Carlsen/Getty Images
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LOUISVILLE, Ky.–Government officials prevented The Epoch Times from covering roughly the first five hours of the trial of John Johnson, the black nationalist militia leader accused of pointing his firearm at a group of law enforcement officers during a September 2020 racial justice protest in Louisville.

The May 23 jury selection for Johnson, the leader of the all-black militia Not [Expletive] Around Coalition (NFAC), was largely uneventful, according to the defendant’s attorney, Donald Meier.