**** Extremist Symbols, Logos and Tattoos ****
**** Posse Comitatus ****
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Symbol Type |
Racist/Extremist Group |
Symbol Description |
Sheriff’s Star with a noose, sword and book in the center and the words "Sheriff’s Posse Comitatus" written across the top |
Also Known As |
N/A |
Traditional Use/Origins |
Sheriff’s Badge |
Hate Group/Extremist Organization |
Posse Comitatus |
Extremist Meaning or Representation |
See Below |
Background/History |
The Posse Comitatus was an anti-government movement active in the 1970s and 1980s, many of whose leaders were Christian Identity adherents, and whose ideology formed the basis of later groups such as the Montana Freemen. The Posse died away in the late 1980s but former Posse leader James Wickstrom restarted it in the 1990s solely as a white supremacist group, shedding most of the Posse’s pseudolegal theories. |
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