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‘Sovereign citizen’ shot, killed during exchange with Harris County deputies
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An hour of talking to the man. Must been white because a black man would not get this treatment if asked to exit vehicle. Matter of fact they probably wouldn't have asked.
Either way, refusing to get out of your car when a cop tells you to is never going to end well for the driver, regardless of race. Especially in Texas, and doubly so when you try to take off on them. Cops don't tend to like people flouting their authority.
IDK some power-tripping assholes will take any excuse to open fire. I can respect people who don't move at all for their own safety. They'll be enraged and power-tripping, so likelihood of being dragged out of the car and unconstitutionally beaten is high. But they have fewer excuses to pretend they fear for their lives.
Really cannot drive away, tho.
You know what amazes me, is that there are black sovcits. I saw video one of them shot lately, and honestly I appreciated the cops being as boundedly patient with him as I've seen them be with white sovcits, but holy shit I do not get how black people are willing to play that particular game given all of the times the cops have, in very genteel language, failed to uphold professional standards when interacting with someone with more than a minimal amount of melanin.
Really didn't know that, thought it was white hicks that believed in that crap.
The real lesson we should get out of all of this is that we're not that much different.
White people should absolutely care about Black Lives Matter, even just for selfish reasons. Because as soon as a cop decides, he will treat you or your kids in the exact same way. They have a predilection to treat black people as inferior, but as soon as you do anything they don't like you're in the exact same bucket.
We should all be on the same side, and it's for some kind of real police accountability.
Sovereign citizen is an extreme delusional fantasy that only the whitest idiots are entitled enough to indulge.
I say we indulge them and take that to its logical conclusion.
Sovereign citizen? Ok so not a citizen of the United States. Do they have a Visa to be in the country? No? Then they're here illegally and should be deported. Process them like any other illegal immigrant.
In the meantime, we all know they're actually US citizens, but if they keep claiming they aren't a citizen then they obviously must have stolen that citizen's identity. Process it that way.
They'll very quickly admit they are actually a US citizen, and thus must comply with US laws, when they're looking at being deported to a country they know nothing about and losing everything they have here for fraud and identity theft.
If they truly believed any of what they utter they would have done the paperwork to relinquish their citizenship.
Black dudes are "Moors". SovCit for black people. Separate but equal.
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/moorish-sovereign-citizens