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Video: Sovereign citizens and law enforcement
The Southern Poverty Law Center has produced a powerful law enforcement training video warning about the extreme views of sovereign citizens.
The video, posted on YouTube.Com, features extensive use of the graphic video taken during the May shoot-out between Springfield-native Jerry Kane, his son Joe, and two West Memphis, Ark., police officers.
The two officers were killed — Brandon Paudert and Bill Evans — and two others were wounded before the Kanes were killed in a shoot-out in a Wal-Mart parking lot.
The video, posted this week, educates officers about how anti-government views espoused by Kane have become more common among so-called “sovereign citizens.”
Sovereign citizens believe the federal government has no authority over them and often use facetious documents, identification cards and legal arguments to resist local law enforcement.
The Southern Poverty Law Center is an Atlanta-based organization that tracks and educates about hate crimes.
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