A man who associates with the "sovereign citizen" movement and opened the door to police officers while wearing full body armor, a face shield and a knife strapped across his chest was arrested Tuesday in Gonzales, the Gonzales Police Department said Friday.
Police went to an apartment on the 400 block of Pine Street in Gonzales to arrest Brandon Gibbs, because he was suspected of making threatening phone calls to Gonzales City Hall.
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When the police officers knocked on Gibbs' door, he opened it a few inches and "demanded to see the officers' hands," police said. The officers backed away, and Gibbs eventually stepped out of the doorway. He was wearing full body armor, a Kevlar helmet with a plastic face shield, camouflage pants and a shirt, and held a can of pepper spray in his hand.
Gibbs refused to drop the pepper spray, and began walking toward one of the officers with it. Another officer was able to spray Gibbs under his face shield with departmental-issued pepper spray.
'Sovereign citizen,' wearing full body armor and armed with a knife, arrested in Gonzales | NOLA.com
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