David Zucchino
L.A. Times
April 7, 2013
Det. Robert Finch teaches police and public officials around the
country how to deal with self-described “sovereign citizens” like [Jeffrey
Allen] Wright. Finch and his partner, Det. Kory Flowers, have trained nearly
15,000 police and 5,000 public officials to combat sovereigns, zealots who
refuse to recognize government authority in virtually any form.
Violent confrontations are rare, but the FBI says at least six police
officers have been killed by sovereigns since 2000. A man tied to the movement
shot and killed a California Highway Patrol officer who stopped him in Contra
Costa County last year. A responding officer shot and killed the assailant.
The agency calls sovereigns — who number between 100,000 and 300,000 — a
“domestic terrorist movement.”
This time of year has federal authorities on alert, since a central tenet of
the sovereigns movement is that its adherents believe they owe no income
taxes.
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