id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-351732-wws6ring Sarteschi, Christine M. Sovereign Citizens: A Narrative Review With Implications of Violence Towards Law Enforcement 2020-09-24 .txt text/plain 5897 354 60 The DHS definition is narrower and focuses only on sovereign citizen extremists which they define as "groups or individuals who facilitate or engage in acts of violence directed at public officials, financial institutions, and government facilities in support of their belief that the legitimacy of the U.S. citizenship should be rejected, almost all forms of established government, authority, and institutions are illegitimate and that they are immune from federal, state and local laws" (U.S. Department of Homeland Security, 2014, p. In another instance that could have been deadly for law enforcement, an officer pulled over Sovereign citizen deadly violence against LEOs, has also occurred during the course of an ambush. Exploring the movement's threat to law enforcement involved a collection of 94 instances in which sovereign citizens did harm police officers, attempted to harm them or threatened to do so. ./cache/cord-351732-wws6ring.txt ./txt/cord-351732-wws6ring.txt