The sight of militiamen in a major U.S. city terrified some and thrilled others after videos of dozens of armed, camouflage-wearing men walking around downtown Louisville Wednesday night surfaced online.

The Kentucky militia sighting following the attorney general’s decision not to prosecute police for the death of Breonna Taylor is part of a growing trend of citizens taking law enforcement responsibilities into their own hands, as others have similarly did in Kenosha, Wisconsin, earlier this summer and Ferguson, Missouri, in 2015.