Sheriff's deputies brought the parents to safety, but Shafie refused to leave the house.
'Get your f***ing guns out of here, man,' he said.Īround 50 members of the Washtenaw County Sheriff's Office including a SWAT team, crisis negotiators and sheriff's deputies responded to the rural address. He became involved in an angry exchange, demanding to know why they'd brought their guns to the city.
Shafie, 32, was arrested after a 36-hour stand-off with a SWAT team from the Washtenaw County Sheriff's Office, during which he allegedly shot off several rounds.Ī rally to Free Omar Shafie was organized outside the Ann Arbor City Hall and police station, and promoted on social media.Īccording to the News2Share site, police observed the armed group from a distance but did not intervene.Īn unnamed local man then approached the group, demanding to know why they were in town. Members of the far-right Boogaloo Bois militia armed with semi-automatic weapons clashed with angry locals during a protest Sunday outside of the Ann Arbor City Hall building in Michigan.Ībout six Boogaloo Bois dressed in tactical gear, some wearing the group's signature Hawaiian-style shirts, had marched on the city police station to call for the release of a local man, Omar Shafie.