Sovereign citizen movement
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The sovereign citizen movement is a loose group of anti-government activists, conspiracy theorists, vexatious litigants, tax protesters and financial scammers found mainly in English-speaking common l
Cliven and Ammon Bundy, two American activists who became associated with the sovereign citizen movement during the 2010s
The site of the 2021 Waukesha Christmas parade attack, a violent crime linked to the sovereign citizen movement
American activist David Zion Brugger, showing an irregular "identity document" asserting him to be a "citizen of Heaven"
A car with an irregular sovereign citizen license plate.
On November 21, 2021, Darrell Edward Brooks Jr. drove a sport utility vehicle through the annual Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin, United States, killing six people and injuring 62 others. The
Sovereign citizen movement
…2021 Wakefield standoff (involving African American Moorish sovereign citizens) attracted significant media attention. In 2022, the perpetrator of the Waukesha Christmas parade attack brought further attention to the movement by using sovereign citizen arguments during his trial. There is significant overlap between the sovereign…
Site of the incident on the corner of Barstow and Main streets on November 22. Police investigate behind the yellow caution tape.
Brooks in November 2021
A maroon 2010 Ford Escape similar to the one used in the attack
Abandoned items from parade goers on the corner of Broadway and Main St