According to Yahoo
An Arkansas Black Lives Matter group was confronted by an armed militia as they protested white supremacy on Sunday.According to the New York Post, the group congregated in Harrison, Arkansas, and landed near the compound of Ku Klux Klan leader, Thomas Robb. One protester, Quinn Foster, told Insider he carried a flamethrower as a “deterrent” during the demonstration after receiving over 100 deaths threats leading up to the protest.
A Black Lives Matter protester in Arkansas said he carried a flamethrower around as a “deterrent” if things got out of control in their demonstration against white supremacists.
Quinn Foster, an organizer of the protest based in Harrison, Arkansas, on Sunday, told Insider that he received more than 100 death threats from people who oppose the Black Lives Matter movement. He said white supremacists are trying to normalize their beliefs, existence, and activities in Arkansas.
“I knew that a lot of the white supremacists and militia folks are extremely reliant on gun powder based weapons … I needed something that was going to be a deterrent,” Foster told Insider. “It could be readily available as a defensive weapon very quickly if I needed to get people to back up or stop shooting in our direction.”