Gavin Long, Baton Rouge cop-killer. Member of rightwing Sovereign Rights movement.
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How many other disturbed individuals are these groups attracting?
http://www.salon.com/2016/07/18/cop_killer_gavin_long_and_the_danger_of_the_sovereign_citizens_movement/
On Sunday, three police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana were killed and three others wounded by a gunman. Gavin Long, age 29, has been identified as the alleged shooter. He is African-American, from Kansas City, and a former United States Marine.
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As reported on Sunday by the Kansas City Star:
Long declared himself a sovereign citizen in records filed with the Jackson County Recorder of Deeds last year.
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The sovereign citizens movement is a right-wing network of individuals and organizations numbering in the hundreds of thousands who believe that the United States government is illegitimate.
If true, Gavin Long’s attack on police is part of a larger pattern of violence by right-wing domestic terrorists against police, firefighters, and other representatives of state authority. The vast majority if not all of these attacks have been committed by white men.
In August of 2015, The Kansas City Star ran a feature on the sovereign citizens movement —which also attracts white supremacists — and how it has expanded to included African-Americans and other people of color.
