Milwaukee sheriff's continuing links with extremist 'constitutionalists' raises concerns about his potential role as Trump's federal liaison to local law enforcement.
Milwaukee sheriff's continuing links with extremist 'constitutionalists' raises concerns about his potential role as Trump's federal liaison to local law enforcement.
Before he was accused of this week’s fatal shooting of a Montana sheriff’s deputy, an antigovernment extremist was involved in an eerily similar high-speed chase and gunfight with officers in California that included downing a police helicopter.
Social media footprints suggest a suspect accused of fatally shooting a Montana sheriff’s deputy during a nighttime traffic stop was heavily immersed in antigovernment, anti-police and pro-gun militia views.
Two years after the Oath Keepers in Josephine County, Oregon, engaged in a standoff with federal agents at the Sugar Pine Mine, the leader of the chapter has broken away from the Oath Keepers, citing concerns with national leadership.
The leader of a Florida-based sovereign citizen sect, who had been charged with armed kidnapping and false imprisonment, has been given a plea deal by state prosecutors.
BERKELEY, California — Antigovernment extremists stood shoulder-to-shoulder with "alt-right" extremists and anti-feminists. Nearby, a ragtag mix of Trump supporters were draped in American flags and decked in helmets stickered with images of Pepe the Frog, the popular cartoon frog meme employed by the white nationalist “alt-right.”
They carried clubs and medical kits, radios and reinforcement in the event of violent skirmishes that have shaken the University of California, Berkeley campus. But by Thursday’s end, the next chapter in what Richard Spencer has called “The Battle of Berkeley” was a bust.
Justice Department prosecutors are having about as much trouble convicting members of the “Bundy gang” as federal agents faced in their failed attempt to round-up cattle during the infamous 2014 standoff at Bunkerville, Nevada.
Antigovernment fugitive Joseph Jakubowski was arrested early today without incident when a team of 125- state and federal law enforcement officers surrounded him sleeping in a makeshift tent on a rural Wisconsin farm.
It should be no surprise that anti government folks seeking redress want someone besides the government to adjudicate for them. As a result, common law courts have sprung up across the United States. Many members of these courts are sovereign citizens who believe their judgments supersede federal and district court decisions, and then bring their quasi-legal activity into legitimate courts and use tactics including intimidation and paper terrorism.
An antigovernment “Patriot” blogger, who published names of reported FBI informants in an Oregon refuge investigation and refused to respond to a federal judge’s order, has been released after spending a week behind bars.
Now, more than ever, we must work together to protect the values that ensure a fair and inclusive future for all.