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Greensboro experts see local parallels in Oregon occupation
- By Danielle Battaglia
- Jan 10, 2016
- Jan 10, 2016

A seal by the N.C. Common Law Grand Jury. The local group of sovereign citizens meets regularly in Rockingham County, Burlington and Durham.
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GREENSBORO — When anti-government activists seized an Oregon wildlife refuge Jan. 2, people around the world found themselves glued to news of the takeover.
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Contact Danielle Battaglia at (336) 373-4476, and follow @dbattagliaNR on Twitter.
Lawsuit filed Friday names local sovereign expert
GREENSBORO — On Friday, a former North Carolina man filed a lawsuit in federal court seeking $4 million from local sovereign citizen expert Kory Flowers, the mayors and police chiefs of Greensboro and High Point and a laundry list of city and county officials.
The suit was filed as a civil rights action by William Hall El, who now lives in Davie, Florida. The complaint claims Hall El was illegally "arrested, detained, stripped of custody of his eldest child and placed on probation."
In the document Hall El identifies himself as of Moroccan descent and adds the El suffix to his surname. The practice often is used to signify that a person identifies himself as a Moorish American. Moors trace their belief to the Moorish Science Temple of America, founded in 1925. The faith teaches that all black Americans are descendants of an ancient Moroccan empire. Some Moorish Americans are identified by police and courts as members of sovereign groups because they do not recognize the authority of most law enforcement agencies and courts.
Hall El represents himself in the lawsuit that was received Friday by the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina in Greensboro.
He could not be reached for comment Saturday. A voicemail for the phone number listed on Hall El's complaint did not accept messages.
Flowers was notified of the existence of the lawsuit Friday evening by the News & Record.
“It’s no big deal,” he said.
Flowers said he will forward the complaint to the Greensboro police chief and the department attorney.
“Officers aren’t ordinarily intimidated by guns and violence,” Flowers said. “They seek to instill fear in officers by threatening their livelihood or their property.”
Flowers said he has known Hall for more than five years. While working as a fraud detective in 2015, Flowers said he arrested Hall in connection with attempting to obtain property by false pretense from the Guilford County Tax Department.
That charge, and another in High Point, are still pending.
“If this guy has pending charges or is awaiting trial he would hope that by ramping up this terroristic tactic he could make us back off,” Flowers said. “He’s hoping to defeat the system in the wrong way and in an illegitimate manner.”
— Staff Writer Danielle Battaglia
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