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Chief Culp turned heads when he announced he wouldn’t enforce recently passed Initiative 1639, saying it violated the constitutional rights of citizens between the ages of 18-21 years old.
“I will stand up for citizens rights and I will not back down,” Culp said as he spoke before council and a crowd of more than 200. “I never dreamed that a police officer, stating that he will not violate anyones constitutional rights, would be such a big deal.”
The law he speaks of is a referendum (mob rule) that was passed that made the legal age to own certain firearms 21 - but that only “youth” (under 18) can use their parent’s guns. With the parent there.
Culp ran for Governor and was beaten (probably cheated) by Inslee. I don’t think he is still the police chief, and from the various article headlines I just saw it isn’t clear if the small town of Republic became a “sanctuary city” from gun laws.
An aside - Sarah Palin gave the commencement speech for the small graduating class back when she was still popular - the seniors did some sort of mail-in campaign. She had some minor connection with the small town.