Derek Sanders, the elected sheriff of Thurston County, said in a Facebook post that the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Division asked his office for assistance Monday as an FBI special weapons and tactics team executed a search warrant in Lacey, near the state capitol of Olympia, “as a result of a violent robbery and theft of military weaponry/armor.”
The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Seattle said in a statement to The Associated Press on Tuesday night that the search warrant related to an Army CID and FBI investigation into an assault Sunday at Joint Base Lewis-McCord, just north of Olympia.
Sanders’ statement said two people were arrested and booked into Thurston County Jail for investigation of firearms-related offenses.
I live across the river from Washington and I have a friend that lives over there in the mountains. When I drive to her spot, it’s nothing but hard MAGA country for miles. This does not surprise me at all. One of her dogs got loose and ran into the neighbor’s yard a while back and, one of her children went to get the dog. The neighbor ran out with a gun and threatened the child at gunpoint because she was on his property. A fucking 14 year old kid.
Oregon Territory was founded as a whites-only ethnostate.
America was founded as a whites-only ethnostate. We had some pretty big fights about that.
No it wasn’t. Importation of black slaves was very much allowed.
Except they were seen as property and not part of the state.
That changes nothing. Oregon Territory was a whites-only ethnostate in the sense that black people weren’t allowed in even as property.
And I aim to start another!
No u.
Lots of rural Washington is MAGA/Nazi territory. Especially Eastern Washington.
And apparently the state has a history of problems with private militias, because the state constitution guarantees firearm ownership for self defense while at the same time forbidding belonging to a militia.
So this story isn’t a surprise.
I just assume every rural area is like that. Doesn’t matter how liberal the state.