Douglas County (Nevada) Sheriff Dan Coverley told a local library not to call 9-1-1 if trouble erupted from a Black Lives Matter protest the library supported, and when armed counterprotesters arrived on the scene, the Sheriff just sat aside, per reporting by the Washington Post.
Library board members had drafted a statement that supported the Black Lives Matter movement and said they decry “all forms of racism, hatred, inequality and injustice.”
The sheriff’s blackmail worked and the library board did not release the statement. The one hundred BLM protesters were met by an estimated crowd of one thousand people supporting the sheriff, including some off duty sheriff deputies.
A farmer in Douglas County, Marie Johnson told KOLO ABC-8 that when she read the Sheriff’s statements she was disgusted. “He threatened our library. These are my tax dollars that work here and I have to say I don’t accept,” Johnson said.