For weeks, men carrying rifles have guarded the roads leading into Lincoln Heights, Ohio, stopping and questioning those who approach the Cincinnati suburb.

Disappointed by local law enforcement officials who didn’t spring into action to protect them, Black residents have now taken things into their own hands. The Washington Post reported that Black men are carrying rifles to guard the roads that lead directly into Lincoln Heights,

Residents of Lincoln Heights, Ohio, a Black-majority town in the suburbs of Cincinnati, have formed armed watches after neo-Nazis recently marched close by and after fliers from the Ku Klux Klan began appearing in town.