[Western Journal] The man who is accused of shooting a Daytona Beach police officer in the head on Wednesday was captured early Saturday in Georgia.
Police said Othal Wallace
| ...also known as Othal Toreyane Resheen Wallace and Othal “O-Zone” Wallace... |
was hiding out in a treehouse on land affiliated with a black nationalist paramilitary organization.
Although Wallace had an arsenal with him when arrested, he was taken into custody without injuries.
Wallace is accused of shooting Daytona Beach police officer Jason Raynor in the head. He faces a charge of attempted first-degree murder of a law enforcement officer.
“Othal Wallace was located hiding in a tree house,” Young said. “In the tree house with Wallace was multiple flash bangs, rifle plates, body armor, two rifles, two handguns and several boxes of ammunition.”
Shoulda set the tree on fire
Multiple weapons were also recovered, he said. Several other people were at the site when the arrest was made he said.
Young gave an upbeat assessment of Raynor’s condition.
“There were very positive signs of improvement,” Young said. “He still has a ways to go. But basically from his condition right now they feel comfortable moving forward with more testing because they’ve determined that he’s now strong enough to endure more testing.
“As of right now his outlook, it is improving. It’s a positive one,” Young added. “But we are just going to continue to pray that he continues to heal.”
A profile on the NFAC in the Atlantic it said the group “has a militarylike structure, fields an army of hundreds of heavily armed men and women, subscribes to esoteric racist doctrines, opposes Black Lives Matter, and follows a leader who thinks we live in a period of apocalyptic tribulation signaled by the movements of celestial bodies. Its modus operandi is to deploy a more fearsome Black militia wherever white militias dare to appear.”
| The group has apparently been around under that name for four years. Until this year it was frequently described as a far right Patriot militia made up primarily of law-abiding military veterans who respect and understand the Constitution, different only in its Black racial exclusiveness from the III Percenters, Oath Keepers, and Boogaloo Bois. At other times, it’s been described as a branch of the Black Lives Matter movement. Protests in Louisville, Kentucky and Stone Mountain were the big excitements until they commandeered the center of Austin in March to be their independent Black homeland of Orisha Land. There’s also a colony in the Colorado mountains, but it wasn’t doing well, last we read ... |
In an interview, the leader of the group, who goes by the name of Grandmaster Jay and whose real name is John Fitzgerald Johnson,
| ... in previous incarnations he has been a rapper/producer/DJ, Army veteran, director of a global cloud integration practice and solutions architect — whatever that means — and an independent presidential candidate in 2016 who ran on a platform of racism, women’s rights, and economic equality... |
called laws “just paper” and said the Black Lives Matter movement is too tame for his taste.
His goal, he said, is to rally all black gun owners to his cause.
“If I assemble 1 million legal guns, I have the fifth-largest ground army on the planet. I think that’s a pretty significant indication,” he said.
NFAC's leader, meanwhile, has been indicted for pointing an assault-style weapon at several federal officers at a protest in Louisville, Kentucky, on Sept. 4, 2020. According to a criminal complaint, John F. Johnson — aka Grand Master Jay — also took to YouTube to urge NFAC members to attack and kill law enforcement and their families. Johnson urged members to dismantle the body cameras of police they intended to assault.
In an interview with NBC's Morgan Radford last March, Johnson said the NFAC was growing "by leaps and bounds." He said its goals are self-defense and to create a Black ethnostate.
“The NFAC was born out of the last four years under the Trump administration. The deterioration of racial relations in this country," he said. "It means that you are preparing yourself to defend yourself. “
He called violence a "last option," but added the United States was built on violence as an option. |