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'Constitutional sheriffs' ask Michigan police to stand against Biden, COVID-19 orders [View all]
One day after President Joe Biden’s inauguration, Barry County Sheriff Dar Leaf advertised lessons on how to stand up against “tyranny” represented by the new president.
The six-week online course is a product sold by the Constitutional Sheriff and Peace Officers Association, an activist organization that claims county sheriffs hold power that can’t be challenged by any government official, even the president. The CSPOA has close ties to far-right groups that stormed the U.S. Capitol and a network of activists spreading misinformation about the coronavirus and presidential election.
“We’ve already seen the tyranny that has been happening with government orders since the whole COVID-19 thing started,” read the post shared on Leaf’s Facebook page. “With Joe Biden as president, it won’t get better unless we the people do something about it. It’s time for all patriots to become educated on the Constitution and their rights and begin standing up and taking action, now more than ever before.”
Lane Crothers, a professor at Illinois State University who studies far-right social movements, said the CSPOA argues sheriffs have the right to selectively enforce laws based on their interpretation of the constitution. This usually comes in the form of gun control laws and restrictions to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
“The constitutional sheriffs are not specifically a militia movement, but they are linked to power structures,” Crothers said. “That has real implications for how law enforcement works and it speaks more broadly to my sense that they’re trying to carve out zones where they can do whatever they want.”
https://www.mlive.com/politics/2021/02/constitutional-sheriffs-ask-michigan-police-to-stand-against-biden-covid-19-orders.html
The six-week online course is a product sold by the Constitutional Sheriff and Peace Officers Association, an activist organization that claims county sheriffs hold power that can’t be challenged by any government official, even the president. The CSPOA has close ties to far-right groups that stormed the U.S. Capitol and a network of activists spreading misinformation about the coronavirus and presidential election.
“We’ve already seen the tyranny that has been happening with government orders since the whole COVID-19 thing started,” read the post shared on Leaf’s Facebook page. “With Joe Biden as president, it won’t get better unless we the people do something about it. It’s time for all patriots to become educated on the Constitution and their rights and begin standing up and taking action, now more than ever before.”
Lane Crothers, a professor at Illinois State University who studies far-right social movements, said the CSPOA argues sheriffs have the right to selectively enforce laws based on their interpretation of the constitution. This usually comes in the form of gun control laws and restrictions to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
“The constitutional sheriffs are not specifically a militia movement, but they are linked to power structures,” Crothers said. “That has real implications for how law enforcement works and it speaks more broadly to my sense that they’re trying to carve out zones where they can do whatever they want.”
https://www.mlive.com/politics/2021/02/constitutional-sheriffs-ask-michigan-police-to-stand-against-biden-covid-19-orders.html
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