“I look at entities like county sheriffs, etc. as being more responsive to freedom and citizens because they aren’t beholding to city managers, mayors, councils or the like. The Sheriff is elected by the citizenry.”
I would like to believe that, but in several of the Jan 6 protester’s arrest pictures there were sheriff’s deputies standing right there with the FBI or slightly in the background. Our local sheriff (and DA), in a very overall conservative area, have been campaigning against constitutional carry. Of course both retiring this year.
I really don’t know if they were Sheriffs’ deputies or US Marshals or whoever. It was hard to tell with all of them being dressed up like the Trump-supporters they were playing to be.