And yet...
All of this stands in stark contrast to media and public response to the single greatest threat to the lives and well-being of police officers in the United States over the past decade and longer: the sovereign citizens movement.
[...] In the succeeding years, it has not gone away – and indeed has been picking up strength in the past decade, particularly fueled by right-wing reaction to the election of Barack Obama as president in 2008.
In the eight years since, sovereign citizens have killed nine police officers and injured more than a dozen others in 16 separate incidents, many of them violent responses to ordinary police actions such as issuing traffic tickets or serving warrants. Other incidents involved plots to kidnap, torture and murder police officers, or armed standoffs in which law-enforcement officers were threatened.
Nah, that leads nowhere. Better just eat the ice cream.
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"Sovereign citizens," militia members, white supremacists, whatever the fuck the Bundy people call themselves -- all way more dangerous than any BLM protestor or Black Panther or whatever. Yet you don't hear about them on FOX! Hmm. . . .
360 degree blind spot.
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