Luke Massie is national chairman of BAMN, the group that promises (and delievers) to use “any means necessary” to preserve racial preferences. According to an article in the Detroit News, apparently one of those means is threatening Jennifer Gratz, the executive director of the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative, with a knife.
MCRI Executive Director Jennifer Gratz on Tuesday filed a report with the Detroit Police accusing Luke Massie, national chairman of the activist group By Any Means Necessary, of displaying the knife during a confrontation. She said the incident happened Monday morning outside of a Michigan Civil Rights Commission meeting in the State building on West Grand Boulevard.
Massie contends it didn’t happen at all.
“I won’t be intimidated,” Gratz said today. “It was a clear attempt to threaten and intimidate.”
The initial police report, which has been assigned to an investigator, says Gratz told officers Massie had a knife in his right pants pocket and toyed with it, said Detroit Police Sgt. Omar Feliciano.
Gratz said Massie pulled the knife halfway out of his pants but did not draw its blade.
Brandishing a firearm in public is a misdemeanor under the Michigan Penal Code, punishable by not more than 90 days in jail or a fine of not more than $100, or both. I’m not sure about brandishing a knife, or if pulling it half-way out of one’s pocket and toying with it in the course of a confrontation counts as brandishing. It will be interesting to see what the investigation by the Detroit police concludes.
Since Massie and his organization pride themselves on using “any means necessary,” he certainly can have no principled objection to threatening opponents with a knife.
