New Black Panther chair backs away from 2nd Amendment comments

CLEVELAND — The chairman of the New Black Panther Party, who was quoted earlier this week saying members would be openly expressing their constitutional right to bear arms ahead of the Republican National Convention, now says he was misquoted. Hashim Nzinga, who had told Reuters in an interview that members "will exercise our Second Amendment rights because there are other groups threatening to be there that are threatening to do harm to us," later took to social media in an apparent attempt to

CLEVELAND — The chairman of the New Black Panther Party, who was quoted earlier this week saying members would be openly expressing their constitutional right to bear arms ahead of the Republican National Convention, now says he was misquoted. Hashim Nzinga, who had told Reuters in an interview that members "will exercise our Second Amendment rights because there are other groups threatening to be there that are threatening to do harm to us," later took to social media in an apparent attempt to…