[Music] and welcome back to factor frauds with breaking news several members of the rise of the moors group arrested after an armed standoff along a massachusetts highway i-95 earlier this month have filed a federal lawsuit alleging the state courts have no jurisdiction over the case the suit filed by rise of the wars in u.s district court in rhode island last week alleges defamation discrimination of national origin and deprivation of their rights under color of law if the state courts continue their unlawful prosecution and or conviction they will be violating the claimant's civil national and human rights the suit says it seeks 70 million dollars in damages the massachusetts state police and several individual troopers the judge who presided over their arraignments the state as a whole and several media organizations are named as defendants rise of the moors is based in rhode island a spokesperson for the state police in an email said because of the agency had not seen the suit it could not comment on the specific allegations but said the defendants were arrested because and only because they broke the law and created a clear public safety risk a spokesperson for the state court system said the judge would have no comment the standoff started just after 1am on july 3 on interstate 95 in wakefield when a trooper stopped to offer assistance to two vehicles refueling on the side of the highway the men from rhode island new york and michigan were dressed in military style clothing and body armor and were armed with long guns and pistols did not have licenses to carry firearms in massachusetts police said the self-described leader of the group said they were a traveling militia from rhode island to maine for training on private land although the exact nature of the training remains unclear according to the police report ten men and a juvenile were arrested after the standoff ended peacefully hours after it started they are being held without bail after a series of contentious arraignments and dangerous hearings at which members of the group said they are sovereign citizens of moroccan descent and are not subject to federal or state laws they face charges that include unlawful possession of a firearm thank you all right good afternoon again everyone um just briefly because it is late and it has been a long day i will say that although we call this a dangerousness here what i am actually called upon to decide is whether or not the commonwealth has proven by clear and convincing evidence that there are no conditions of release that would reasonably assure the safety of the community in this case and i'm not certain what conditions i could set that would do so given what their brief history here in the commonwealth on july 3rd demonstrates to me and so they are ordered held without bail we are now going to set a probable cause hearing date and so i will hear from the lawyers as to what date they would like august 9th is that you know and i think we were in agreement that doing by soon might be a good idea 9th okay thank you as to all six defendants the commonwealth's request for detention under section 58a has been allowed you will be held for a period of 120 days that end date being november 3rd 2021 as do all defendants or oral or the one written motion to dismiss uh has been denied and as to mr steven perez on lucia l the commonwealth motion to amend the complaint to reflect the name stephen perez with the specified data first has been allowed this will issue the respective institutions for august 9 2021 for probable cause hearing via zoom and i'm required to advise all of you that if there is probable cause to believe a new offense has been committed your bill could be revoked and you could be held for up to the time of trial august 9th for probable cause thank you thank so what do you think are they gonna win or is it the fall of the moors once [Music] more