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Seim is an extreme constitutionalist who uses a number of sovereign citizen tactics against police. He has regularly questioned their authority and proudly posted a video of himself trying to make a citizen鈥檚 arrest against an officer. Seim, who represented himself, began yelling at the judge presiding over the case. Deputies were forced to drag Seim from the courtroom.

Last week, Seim was at a Walmart in Ephrata, Washington, (population around 7,000) when he saw a police officer speaking to a woman in a truck. Seim perceived the action as harassment by the officer, who he calls 鈥渙ne of the local goons,鈥� and started filming the exchange.

This is the that Seim filmed the same officer, Patrick Canady, at work. The first was during a traffic stop in January 2016, which Seim pulled over 鈥渢o observe.鈥� During this encounter, the officer asked Seim to get back into his car for his own safety and Seim responded 鈥淚 feel safe, don鈥檛 worry, other than from you鈥� before berating the officer for shining a light in his eyes. He then posted the video on his website with the title 鈥淕av Dresses Down This Bully Cop on the Street.鈥�

In Seim鈥檚 account of the most recent incident, he told officer Canady to 鈥渟top harassing the woman, stop blocking the road, get in your car, go, that鈥檚 an order.鈥� The officer refused and continued with the stop in progress. Seim retreated to his vehicle, but did not leave the scene. Instead, he attempted to film a Facebook Live post from the Walmart parking lot.

Canady completed his traffic stop, then went over to Seim鈥檚 vehicle with additional officers who had arrived on the scene and arrested Seim for obstruction and harassment. Seim was taken into lockup at the Grant County Sheriffs before being released on a $2,000 bond.

Since then, Seim related his account of the incident on Facebook, besmirching Officer Canady and the Ephrata Police Department (EPD) and asking his fans to call the EPD and the local prosecutor鈥檚 office on his behalf. He also deemed the police department 鈥渉uman traffickers鈥� and implied that they are 鈥渄rug traffickers.鈥� Seim alleges that officer Canady doesn鈥檛 protect people or serve the community, and made the accusation that Canady 鈥渉as a gun and a badge and he鈥檚 not afraid to kidnap me.鈥� Seim has also called the officer 鈥渁 Godless tyrant,鈥� the 鈥済uy they send out to rob people,鈥� the 鈥渓ocal extortioner鈥� and 鈥渢he armed robber of Ephrata.鈥�

Seim said in a post arrest video that his own actions were 鈥渂old鈥� and any repercussions from his arrest are just retaliatory. He also pointed to a cast of dubious characters he considers upstanding citizens, such as the Bundys, who are in jail on conspiracy charges, David Fry, one of the last holdouts at the Malheur Wildlife Refuge, who regularly advocated for cop killing on his Facebook page, sovereign citizen and Bundy supporter Josh Martinez, who drove without a license, planned to challenge the jurisdiction of the court during his hearing and was sentenced to 15 days in jail and Jon Ritzheimer the anti-Muslim activist who pleaded guilty to conspiracy, and planned to perform citizens鈥� arrests on Senator Debbie Stabenow of Michigan and every American involved in crafting the Iran nuclear deal.