Some 50 Texas sheriffs and numerous elected officials have attended training sessions on...
was a self-ordained minister who called on sheriffs to supersede federal agencies and serve as quasi-vigilantes, primarily to resist school desegregation.
After losing his bid for a third term, Mack began going around the country talking to far-right groups and moved to Fredericksburg around 2011 to start the The COVID-19 pandemic gave Mack and his movement a burst of new attention, as did the unrest in 2020 that followed the murder of George Floyd, an unarmed Black civilian, by a Minneapolis police officer. He argued in August 2020 that sheriffs could call upon posses to deal with protesters.
, a controversial former Texas sheriff who is featured on the cover of Mack’s book “Are You a David?” Later, Hargrove wrote, “What this CSPOA training is, in reality, is a good old-fashioned Constitutional Revival!” There are no assessments or other tests at the end of the training sessions, nor is there a textbook or manual. After each event, sheriffs were given a “Statement of Constitutional Sheriff” to “use as a guide in all law enforcement endeavors.”
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