Leonard F. Muhammad, a Co-Director of the #JusticeOrElse movement, stood on the steps of the U.S. Capitol Oct. 9 to forthrightly address thinly veiled accusations hurled at the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, those working with him to commemorate the 20th Anniversary of the Million Man March and those planning on attending the march.

“Those persons who are coming are coming to express their First Amendment rights. They are coming to attend an event that is the anniversary of one of the most significant convening in this history of this country for Black people,” said Mr. Muhammad.

Recently, an intelligence newsletter was distributed to U.S. Capitol Police officers that repeated false accusations that Min. Farrakhan has incited violence during various speeches delivered over the past two months as part of the Justice Or Else national mobilization tour.

Mr. Muhammad told reporters that a six-hour meeting October 8 held with United States Capitol Police (USCP) Chief Kim C. Dine in response to the newsletter appears to have quelled matters. Chief Dine issued an apology distancing the USCP from the newsletter’s contents following the meeting, Mr. Muhammad noted.

As part of their seemingly never-ending efforts to mischaracterize Min. Farrakhan’s motives and apparent strategy to persuade many from attending the planned Oct. 10 gathering, a Washington Post Op-Ed written by Jonathan A. Greenblatt, the newly appointed national director of the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith, repeated the same old tired accusations and deliberate distortions that characterize the ADL’s decades long obsession with Min. Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam.