Organizations such as the “New Black Panther Party” and other Black armed groups announced they would have a vigilante presence at the Georgia runoff election voting precincts. While few took the announcements seriously, now Black Panthers and similar groups have been spotted holding rifles and swinging them in the air while many mask their faces.

The groups claim they’re not there to intimidate voters, however, their “protection” is coming as an unwanted surprise by many who would rather just see a small security presence as opposed to a militant and armed political vigilante group.

In a press conference Monday, Khallida Ramla Bastet said, “No one will come and touch, harm, threaten, do anything to any person walking into that voting booth to exercise that right”