Funeral services were held on Sunday for a driver who was shot by police earlier this month after he refused to get out of his car, approving sovereign citizen eloquent and seemingly reaching for a weapon in a traffic stop.
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Driver Chase Allan can be seen arguing with Farmington, Utah police over a fake number plate attached to the back of the vehicle. In recently released dashcam footage, Allan claims he doesn’t need a driver’s license or vehicle registration.
Allan can be clearly seen wearing a gun at his waist, although it is unclear if Allan reached for a weapon during the confrontation. Chase follows the ideology of the “citizen of the state” movement, which is just another piece of the blanket of sovereign citizenship. Daily Beast:
The traffic stop that led to Allan’s death began when police noticed his car’s unofficial license plate number, which read “Utah, Citizen of the United States of America” and “Announcement, Private Car” People Not For Rent.”
Body camera footage shows an officer asking Allan for his license and registration. “I don’t need to register and I don’t answer questions,” Allan said. After a few minutes back and forth, Allan finally showed his passport, but immediately confirmed that the person in the passport (Chase Allan) was not him. Registrants of the sovereign citizenship trust sometimes claim that they are separate legal entities from those named in official documents such as passports and birth certificates.
“It’s not me. It’s a piece of plastic paper,” Allan told the officer.
“So you have a fraudulent passport?” asked the officer. He asks Allan to get out of the car. Allan refused, telling police they would “have problems” if they tried to get him out of the car. A second police officer opened the car door, police escalated Sheriff Eric Johnsen guarded when appropriate.
“The escalation of force, from words to actions, is, in my opinion, completely justified and appropriate,” Johnson said at a press conference on Wednesday.
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Police opened the door of Allan’s car when he refused to follow instructions. He appeared to have touched the side of his body where his gun was in a holster, but it was unclear what he was reaching for. One of the officers shouted “Guns! Gun!” and he and five of his fellow officers opened fire, shooting Allan several times in the chest. The gun was later found on the passenger side of the vehicle. Allan was taken to a local hospital, where he later died, Salt Lake City Courthouse report.
Allan’s mother was also arrested for having a license plate that expired in 2022. That clash with the police led to an ongoing federal lawsuit, Daily Beast report:
The stop started when an officer noticed that Diane Killian-Allan’s car registration had expired, the Salt Lake Court report. Killian-Allan, who was driving an uninsured car with an expired license, claimed the officer had no legal right to stop her.
Killian-Allan, who did not respond to The Daily Beast’s request for comment, later filed a federal lawsuit against Farmington Police over the traffic stop. The ongoing lawsuit is full of references to the sovereign citizenship movement. At some point, Killian-Allan called herself a “Private Citizen of ‘state’ Utah” and spelled her name as “Diane;. Killian-Allan.” (Followers of the doctrine of sovereign citizenship sometimes add additional punctuation to their names in the mistaken belief that it will distinguish them from the person named in their legal document.)
Like her son last month, Killian-Allan gave her passport to a police officer during the 2022 traffic stop. In her lawsuit, she explains that she does so because she believes she doesn’t need a driver’s license to “travel,” which some sovereign citizens argue is different from driving.
“While traveling, I failed to operate under the ‘driver’s license’ and provided my passport,” the lawsuit states.
It’s funny how these anti-government extremists think the federal law and courts don’t apply to them but are happy to corrupt our court system with this nonsense.
Sovereign citizens often operate with the mistaken belief that because they are “moving” in their own vehicles and not engaged in commerce, the state does not even have the power to regulate movement. their freedom on publicly funded roads. This assumption is based on a very flawed understanding of both the U.S. Constitution and the state laws governing motor vehicles.
Indeed, you don’t need a license to use public roads — but driving a motor vehicle is an entirely different story. Regulating who can use a motor vehicle is in the interest of the state and the public. It would be the same as if a warehouse worker claimed the right to use a forklift, despite not being forklift certified, as the clause in his employment contract mentioned possible duties for the truck. elevate.
Confusing idealists often have license plates like the ones Allan is using, and these are freely available for purchase online. Some of them even looks pretty goodeven if all of them are obviously fake.
Killian-Allan lost his son and Allan lost his life – it was a real tragedy, in fact. And while personal responsibility is important, I can’t help but feel a little sorry for those who are misled by these kinds of movements. the police are trained in how to handle sovereign citizens; however, a number of incidents well known to followers of this ideology have made the police a little more awkward. Like this 2018 incident of a sovereign citizen was killed in a gunfight with police after he was reported for letting a three-year-old child drive. Or 2021, when sovereign citizens close a six-lane highway in Massachusetts for hours because in their world they are above the law.
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