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Example illustration of a sovereign citizen homemade license plate. The sovereign citizen movement (also SovCit movement or SovCits) [1] is a loose group of anti-government activists, vexatious litigants, tax protesters, financial scammers, and conspiracy theorists found mainly in English-speaking common law countries—the United States, Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom.
In 2010, a father and son team of self-proclaimed Sovereign Citizens shot and killed two police officers during a traffic stop in Arkansas before they were gunned down. Sovereign Citizen movement ...
Police killed two suspects, 45-year-old Jerry R. Kane Jr. (b. 1964), and his 16-year-old son Joseph T. Kane (b. 1993). [1] The two were later identified as members of the sovereign citizen movement. [2] Footage of the shooting and ensuing shootout with police was shown in a season 5 episode of World's Wildest Police Videos. [citation needed]
[2] [3] As a result, they may sometimes be referred to as sovereign sheriffs. [4] The movement is related to previous nullification and interposition notions, [1] and promotes such efforts. [5] It has been described as far-right by the Southern Poverty Law Center. [6] The CSPOA has claimed a membership of 400. [3]
A Middletown police officer peers into a garage window at the Langhorne-Yardley Road home of Curtis G. Smith on Tuesday March 5, 2024. Smith is a twice convicted felon, which bars him from ...
Jun. 14—Police stopped to help stranded motorists and came face-to-face with a family of Moorish Sovereign Citizens, some of whom fought with officers, according to a probable cause affidavit.
In 2015, he was arrested for interfering with a court, assault on a police officer, disorderly conduct, and contempt of court. [5] On December 8, 2017, he failed to appear in Grant County District Court on charges of obstruction of a law enforcement officer and harassment in connection with an August 2017 arrest in Ephrata, Washington. Seim ...
John Joe Gray (born c. 1950) [1] is an American who identified as a sovereign citizen and was a fugitive from the law. He lived on his 50-acre, wooded ranch in Trinidad, Texas. He was involved in the longest-running law enforcement standoff in American history, lasting a few days short of 15 years, before the district attorney dropped the charges.