What is a Moorish sovereign citizen?

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WINTER HAVEN, Fla. (WFLA) — A deputy-involved shooting in Polk County left a suspect dead and injured two deputies Saturday .

The suspect involved, 26-year-old Kyran Caples, was identified by Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd as a “Moorish sovereign citizen.”

What is a Moorish sovereign citizen?

The Anti-Defamation League says the Sovereign Citizen Movement began in the 1970s, and identifies sovereign citizens as part of an anti-government movement that, at its core, believes the U.S. government is not legitimate due to the Federal Reserve Act of 1933.

The movement believes people can divorce themselves from the illegitimate government to free themselves from authority.

The league says there are two main varieties of sovereign citizen: “traditional” and “Moorish.”

Moorish sovereign citizens are, according to the Anti-Defamation League, “primarily Black and often pepper standard sovereign citizen beliefs with additional concepts or terminology derived from the Moorish Science Temple, a religious sect, or other fringe Black groups or religious sects.”

Moorish sovereign citizens add their own flourishes to traditional sovereign citizen beliefs, such as believing a 1786 treaty between the infant United States and Morocco gave “Moors” special immunities and privileges.

More information about the Sovereign Citizen Movement can be found on ald.org .

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