John Fitzgerald Johnson biography: 13 things about NFAC leader called Grandmaster Jay

John Jay Fitzgerald Johnson is the African-American man who founded the black nationalist paramilitary organization Not F*****g Around Coalition (NFAC). Established in 2017, the group aims to protect, self-police and educate African-American communities on firearms and their constitutional rights and to establishment of a separate black nation potentially in Texas, United States.

Johnson is nicknamed Grandmaster Jay. Here are 13 more things about the NFAC leader:

1. He was born in 1970.
2. He is a former rapper, producer and disc jockey.
3. He is a former director of a global cloud integration practice and solutions architect.
4. He is a resident of Ohio, USA.
5. He previously lived in Virginia, USA and Maryland, USA.
6. From 1989 to 2006, he served in the Virginia National Guard and the U.S. Army. He left at the rank of private.
7. In 1997, he was stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, USA and Fort Wainwright, Alaska, USA.
8. In 2003, he was federally arrested and convicted of entering a military property, a misdemeanor, according to records WAVE 3 News obtained from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Field Office in Charlotte, North Carolina.
9. In 2016, he ran for president of the U.S. as an independent candidate. He managed to get his name on 47 state ballots.
10. He was accused of pointing an AR platform rifle at Louisville Metro Police Department officers and members of the U.S. Secret Service just after 8:30 p.m. on  September 4, 2020 on the roof of the Jefferson County Grand Jury building in Louisville, Kentucky, USA.
11. On July 4, 2020, he told Newsweek that NFAC is not affiliated with the Black Lives Matter movement. He explained, “We are a Black militia. We aren’t protesters. We aren’t demonstrators. We don’t come to sing. We don’t come to chant. That’s not what we do.”
12. On July 13, 2020, he told Atlanta Black Star that when NFAC made made its first official public appearance at a KKK rally in Dayton, Ohio in 2019, the group was standing guard to prevent a repeat of what happened in 1979 when Nazis and Klansmen killed five anti-racism protesters in Greensboro, North Carolina.
13. On December 3, 2020, he was arrested, charged with assaulting, resisting or impeding certain officers or employees and appeared before a federal judge in Louisville. Just before 1:00 p.m. that day, he was booked into the Oldham County Detention Center in La Grange, Kentucky and was held without bond.