BLM activist says he needed $40K designer guard dog to be safe from white supremacists

Black Lives Matter activist Shaun King said Tuesday that he purchased a $40,000 designer guard dog with funds donated to his political action committee to defend his family against white supremacist threats.

King, who has long been considered a grifter by some members of the black activist community, announced in February that his family had obtained an award-winning mastiff bred by the California-based Potrero Performance Dogs, according to a report Monday by the Washington Free Beacon. The announcement came just days after King's Grassroots Law PAC paid a combined $40,650 to Potrero for "contractor services."

King wrote in a rambling Instagram post on Tuesday that he requires a guard dog at his home at all times because "New York City won't even allow me to have a gun" and "New Jersey doesn't have stand your ground laws and hardly allows you to even own guns."