“Our officers were targeted for nothing more than the uniform they wear and for the brave and honorable job that they do,” Dallas Chief of Police Edgardo Garcia told reporters during Friday’s press briefing.

Let’s not go off the rails here, buddy. There are many things not honorable that your people do every day.

Garcia said there is evidence that Cobb-Bey was a member of the Moorish Sovereign Citizens. The movement is “a collection of independent organizations and individuals that emerged in the early 1990s as an offshoot of the antigovernment sovereign citizens movement,” whose members “have engaged in violent confrontations with law enforcement,” according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.

There it is. Right-wing extremism once again ftw. We really need to get our shit together but you’ve got lunatics like Joshy Hallway and the like promoting the most fringe idea of christo-fascism and whipping people into a state of perceived persecution.