An armed standoff on a Massachusetts freeway that blocked traffic for hours ended with 11 arrests, state police said.
Parts of I-95 were shut down Saturday and a shelter in place order issued nearby after the standoff with the heavily armed group began around 2 a.m.
Mass State Police Col. Christopher Mason said some members of the group were clad in military-style gear with long guns and pistols and were heading to Maine from Rhode Island for “training.”
Mason said the leader of the group, identified as Rise of the Moors, claimed it was not an anti-government group. The Southern Poverty Law Center says the Moorish sovereign citizen movement, a larger collection of