On Monday, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, south Florida residents were participating in a “wheels up, guns down” event. These events promote an end to gun violence by allowing young and old to get out on the streets with their bicycles and ATVs. It’s one of those nice festival-type days one sees in many urban areas of the country. During the event, people also took to the streets to protest a development project that would displace tons of people of color from the Liberty Square public housing complex in Miami-Dade County. A video emerged afterwards of a woman in confrontation with a few guys on bicycles. The scene is tense, and car horns are honking. Suddenly, a guy comes out of his car to aid the woman, holding a pistol in his hand.
As the Miami New Times reports, the man can be heard dropping N-bombs like he’s at a Trump rally or something.
"You fucking losers. You fucking stupid n*****s. You're all fucking dumb-ass fucking n*****s," he says while he paces around the group. Even as he finally walks away, he continues to call the kids the N-word.
Some online argued that the woman out confronting the bikers, who were allegedly holding up traffic while making their protest for affordable housing, had every right to be angry. But it seems that this woman was already fixing for a fight, as video of her confronting bikers earlier in the day shows.
Dream Defenders then got their hands on the arrest and booking charge—and mugshot—of the man in question, Mark Allen Bartlett.
I’ll bet $1,000,000 he voted for Trump. Another video emerged of Bartlett in a confrontation with a protester. At one point, around the 35-second mark, you can clearly hear him say, “Nigg*rs suck!” a few times.
I’ll bet $1,000,000,000 he voted for Trump. Having a concealed weapon is against the law where the incident took place. But brandishing a weapon and threatening with a weapon are also crimes. Bartlett seems to have been given a pass on that. That’s a big pass, considering that there are hundreds of black men who have lost their lives for brandishing cell phones.