In a Thursday Facebook broadcast, the Texas Ram Club including their Event Chair Nathan Abrams indicated they were still confused about how their Back The Blue event on Sunday, August 2, 2020 was misunderstood at the predominantly African American Friendship West Baptist Church.
They then defended the event by stating Pastor Dr. Frederick Douglas Haynes, III misrepresented whether or not they could be there after stating they were late to the “pit stop” they had scheduled and agreed to for the Sunday car parade.
It is not clear if the group made this broadcast in order to respond to media stories, including ours, about the event, but they complain throughout the video about “communities” who are agitating to make this story bigger. They also make reference to unconfirmed reports that George Floyd had fentanyl in his system at the time of the arrest and that is the reason for his death. It is unclear what medical experience Nathan Abrams has other than an oblique reference to his brother’s “medical work” in the US Army.
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Nathan Abrams, the Texas Ram Club Event Chairman, admitted in the broadcast that the event “was a cluster.” He also admitted that Friendship West Baptist Church had denied the Texas Ram Club ‘invitation’ to be the eastern pit stop for the event along with three other locations.
Abrams in the video also says his changing accounts of events happened because “the information I thought I knew was different.”
The full video is below. We have reached out to Nathan Abrams multiple times and he has yet to respond.