The History of Black Sovereign Citizens in the United States
Behind the extremist philosophy that gaining steam among some Black folks.
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Behind the extremist philosophy that gaining steam among some Black folks.
A day later, after an hours-long shootout in Pittsburgh's Garfield neighborhood, residents are back.
At least 75 police officers have been placed on leave following a shootout with a man in Pittsburgh who allegedly fired on officers serving an eviction notice. The man died of...
More than 50 officers are on leave after a six-hour shootout in Pittsburgh that began with an eviction notice and ended with the suspect dead.
The shooter who held a Pittsburgh neighborhood under siege by firing hundreds of rounds at cops who came to evict him was a 63-year-old Black man who believed he was a “sovereign citizen”— a worldview that experts say has no basis in law or history but which is increasingly the motive challenge judges, cops and other authorities with sometimes deadly consequences.