Opposition to stay-at-home orders is the latest episode in a defiant law enforcement history that stretches back to the end of slavery.
Gilbert King, author of two books featuring Willis V. McCall, a violent, racist sheriff in 1950s Florida, found that throughout the civil rights era sheriffs were known members of the Ku Klux Klan. In the 1960s, Sheriff Jim Clark of Dallas County, Alabama, famously oversaw the beating of black voting rights demonstrators in Selma, Alabama.
The organization claims roughly 5,000 members. Political scientist Mirya Holman says the number of sheriffs who actively consider themselves members may be fewer than a hundred. As COVID-19 began hitting urban centers in March and governors began issuing lockdown orders, sheriffs began quelling rumors of checkpoints and mass arrests. “This is not Nazi Germany or Soviet Russia where you are asked for your papers!” wrote Sheriff Scott Nichols of Franklin County, Maine. Although Nichols noted that his deputies would still arrest people, his post was celebrated in conservative media as a “rebellion” against Gov. Janet Mills, a Democrat.
Sheriff Adam Fortney, in Snohomish County, Washington, has been publicly feuding with the state leaders, and is now facing a potential recall election, while his supporters are raising money on GoFundMe. On May 5, Chad Bianco, the sheriff of Riverside County, California, told county commissioners, “I refuse to make criminals out of business owners, single moms, and otherwise healthy individuals who are exercising their constitutional rights.
The head of the New Mexico Sheriffs’ Association wrote a letter last week to Attorney General William Barr, asking him to consider whether the governor’s orders violated the civil rights of New Mexicans, and he similarly focused on how big-box stores have reaped the economic benefits of the closures.
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