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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCops Pull Over a Confederate "Sovereign Citizen" and His Six Loaded Weapons. Not dead.
via rawstorySheriffs deputies arrested a Georgia sovereign citizen who twice attempted to pull one of the half-dozen guns he had within reach inside his car decorated with a hand-painted Confederate flag.
A Towns County sheriffs deputy and an agent from the Appalachian Regional Drug Enforcement Office stopped 30-year-old Dustin Lee Gunnells, of Hiawassee, for an unspecified misdemeanor traffic offense Wednesday, reported WKRK-AM.
Immediately the driver exhibited aggression towards the officers and began making statements consistent with sovereign citizen type beliefs, the sheriffs office said in a statement. Rather than comply with deputies, the driver reached for a gun.
The deputies feared for their safety but did not shoot, and instead broke out a window in Gunnells car and physically removed him from the vehicle.
A Towns County sheriffs deputy and an agent from the Appalachian Regional Drug Enforcement Office stopped 30-year-old Dustin Lee Gunnells, of Hiawassee, for an unspecified misdemeanor traffic offense Wednesday, reported WKRK-AM.
Immediately the driver exhibited aggression towards the officers and began making statements consistent with sovereign citizen type beliefs, the sheriffs office said in a statement. Rather than comply with deputies, the driver reached for a gun.
The deputies feared for their safety but did not shoot, and instead broke out a window in Gunnells car and physically removed him from the vehicle.
So this guy has loaded weapons in his confederate flag painted truck, refuses to comply, the cops tussle with him and he is not dead. See cops can get it right, if the color of skin and ideology is right.
If there are any nice white progressives out there who still do not believe, contrast that with this story
via nbcnews
Prosecutors are intensively reviewing the fatal shooting of an unarmed Cincinnati man by a University of Cincinnati police officer who had pulled the driver over for having a missing front license plate and fired on him after a brief struggle, authorities said Tuesday.
The man, Samuel Dubose, 43, who was African-American, was shot once in the head as he sat behind the wheel of his car Sunday night, university and city police said. The officer, Ray Tensing, who is white, was placed on administrative leave pending the investigation.
The deadly shooting occurred amid a national conversation of race and policing, with critics alleging that black suspects are more likely to have force used against them during encounters with police.
The man, Samuel Dubose, 43, who was African-American, was shot once in the head as he sat behind the wheel of his car Sunday night, university and city police said. The officer, Ray Tensing, who is white, was placed on administrative leave pending the investigation.
The deadly shooting occurred amid a national conversation of race and policing, with critics alleging that black suspects are more likely to have force used against them during encounters with police.
Confederate flag waving gun having sovereign citizen believing asshole has exactly zero holes in his head after his encounter with police. But this innocent black man who was unarmed, put up virtually no resistance and was accused of nothing but a missing front license plate is dead.
Again, cops got it right with the confederate asshole. Why is it they have so much darned trouble with unarmed black men?
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/07/22/1404515/-Cops-Pull-Over-a-Confederate-Sovereign-Citizen-and-His-Six-Loaded-Weapons-Not-dead
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Cops Pull Over a Confederate "Sovereign Citizen" and His Six Loaded Weapons. Not dead. (Original Post)
Playinghardball
Jul 2015
OP
BUt but but I just read a post seconds ago that you should expect to be murdered by police if you
randys1
Jul 2015
#1
Some local, Southern police forces are not threatened by white faces because their personal sympathies are similar.
Fred Sanders
Jul 2015
#5
Yeah, but when Sandra Bland verbally (unarmed) talked back, she was called 'arrogant.'
freshwest
Jul 2015
#7
It's a good thing his turn signal was working properly and he wasn't smoking.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Jul 2015
#11
randys1
(16,286 posts)1. BUt but but I just read a post seconds ago that you should expect to be murdered by police if you
disrespect them in anyway
I guess it depends on your complexion
the complexion for the protection
blm
(113,091 posts)2. Complexion protection……it's REAL.
.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)4. "Complexion Protection" is not available for the non-privileged.
Anansi1171
(793 posts)3. You answer your own question. Because they hate black people...
...and they see themselves and others as defending white supremacy under threat.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)5. Some local, Southern police forces are not threatened by white faces because their personal sympathies are similar.
Anansi1171
(793 posts)10. Exactly! -nt
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)6. It is the magic white skin
freshwest
(53,661 posts)7. Yeah, but when Sandra Bland verbally (unarmed) talked back, she was called 'arrogant.'
White people get away with what is a death sentence for black Americans.
Sovereign citizens are one dead cop or 9 black Americans away from being called terrorists.
Oh, wait, not even then. My bad. Nothing to see here. Post racial America has it covered!
jeff47
(26,549 posts)8. Unarmed!?! She had a deadly cigarette!!!!!
Why, she could have just leapt out of the car and severely injured the armed-with-multiple-weapons, body-armored officer!!!
progressoid
(49,999 posts)13. Maybe it's the cigarettes that set them off!
Smoking them. Selling them on the street.
These are violent actions that require a swift response.
malaise
(269,157 posts)9. I'll take Racist Pigs for the Daily Double Alex n/t
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)11. It's a good thing his turn signal was working properly and he wasn't smoking.
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)12. kick
uponit7771
(90,363 posts)14. "..The deputies feared for their safety but did not shoot.."
Sigh
TBF
(32,090 posts)15. Not to mention unarmed black women ... K&R nt