The Gray Standoff On ABC 20⧸20 Part 1 Of 2 [FtkK9pWWOlQ]

03:31 And that's when a scuffle began. I felt something hit me upside the face, and over here trying to give me headlock or hit me...I don't know if he was going to say it did but it wound up in my mouth. And you bit him? I bit him and hung on to him Joe Gray says that incident in this county was all in self-defense even though he was indicted he refuses to appear in court He says the judges and in fact the entire judicial system is corrupt and conspiring against him because of those beliefs he refuses to obey the law What if everyone felt that way? Well, then it'd be a free society then wouldn't it. You'd be a free nation again like we used to be He now lives like we used too without electricity or running water mainly because he hasn't paid his bills Here

04:18 In this exclusive video obtained by 2020, you can see that adults and children live in a strange world where the American flag is flown upside down. The little building with the initials of federal law enforcement agencies is the family outhouse And the vehicles here sport license plates issued by a church called The Kingdom of Heaven. Throughout the compound, the adults all carry weapons Men wear their pistols tucked inside their boots Women coddled their rifles and their babies around the same shoulder

04:56 We had six children and as we were having them, they're growing up. Everybody said why do you have so many children? And I always said well we're building an army for God but we never knew it might turn into a literal army but they're ready they're all at peace with God As you drive around the compound You can make out the sandbags presumably used for cover in case of an attack and there behind a metal door A bunker with a caution to authorities kids inside They could see your house right from here You hear it over and over again, an overwhelming and foreboding sense of paranoia. Police cars been out there big vans with discs on top of them been up there And maybe with good reason some of the townsfolk don't like the way that grays live and harass them just listen to what the Grays captured on home video a few weeks ago It's a drive-by shooting

05:51 Luckily, no one was injured and the man who was firing his rifle from the back of this truck... ...was later arrested. My God! It's a whole bunch of them. That may not be feds... At night now, the men on this encampment patrol the grounds as sentries and they also use video cameras to document any movement. Get all these mics out here. I'm getting it out. And any movement at all is suspect They turn out to be just curious reporters And there's someone else who'd like to get his hands on Joe Gray. It's his former son-in-law, who claims that among those behind the bullets and the barbed wire are the two most important people in his life—his young sons. Joe Gray is holding them here illegally. When we come back... a father's anguish, his children trapped inside What will happen to them if things turn violent? Why won't the militia leader let them go