Funny. I'd been taught in college that if you repeat a point seven times in an article or essay that retention/acceptance of that point jumps to something like 90%. This looks like the author learned the same thing and used it to push her biased agenda-laden point that she thinks YOU should think that the ABP is a bunch of vigilantes.
And that is where she failed. Not only with me, but with anyone that is familiar with the issue. It was a negative move on her part because those in the area know that ABP members are not vigilantes. That eventuality seems to have been lost on her as she is residing and writing out of that area. The ABP members she is calling vigilantes are mostly prior military that know their rights, the boundaries of the law, are fed up with the fed not making good on their own laws and are doing something about it. There are others doing the same here in Texas and went to jail over it, but that issue is probably rooted in corruption of local LEA.
Too bad Ms. Deborah Tedford can't comment on the dirty cops, it would be much more interesting.