Man dies in police shooting after Farmington traffic stop
HIs mom is going after the police pretty hard. She's also a sovereign citizen with bad history with the cops.
Family releases statement after 25-year-old killed in Farmington officer-involved shooting
It looks like this version, which is fairly common in the SovCit movement.
Being a sovereign citizen doesn't mean cops should shoot you, but it does mean that there may be more to the story and that mom's claims should be taken with a grain of salt.
Mom is in the middle of suing the police, the DA's office, the courts, and city of Farmington in federal court over a traffic stop.
Thread update: How many sovereign citizen clues does it take for the newspaper and cops to conclude that the guy was a sovereign?
Farmington police shooting of 25-year-old draws attention to ‘sovereign citizen’ movement, though any connection is unclear
https://www.sltrib.com/news/2023/03/07/farmington-police-shooting-25-year/
He was driving a car with sovcit plates, his mother is a well-known sovcit in her town, he tried to participate as a sovcit in her court case last year, and when he was pulled over last week, he went full sovcit.
