Posted on 04/29/2024 7:12:40 AM PDT by V_TWIN
Two Polk County deputy sheriffs were shot and are in intensive care following a confrontation early Saturday with a man parked in Hunt Fountain Park in northwest Lakeland after it had closed.
The gunman, who has not been named, was killed by other deputies who returned fire.
Sheriff Grady Judd said at an early morning news conference that the gunman was aligned with the anti-government “Moorish sovereign citizen” movement that emerged in the 1990s and rejects federal, state and local authority.
Lt. Chad Anderson, 46, was shot once with a bullet that went through his arm and into his chest. Anderson has been with the Polk County Sheriff’s Office for almost 26 years. Judd said he underwent emergency surgery and is in “critical but stable condition in intensive care.”
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“ Media will quickly drop the “Moorish” part of this, won’t they?“
Moor or less.
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