Retired sheriff's book details Posse Comitatus ousting.
On May 29, 1984, Portage County Sheriff Dan Hintz locked his pistol in his car and walked into a compound of a right-wing extremist group called the Posse Comitatus.
He had arranged a meeting with Posse leaders, including Don Minniecheske, the military leader of the group. Hintz's goal was to convince those leaders to remove a cluster of mobile homes they had congregated on a rural parcel of land near Tigerton. The Posse, with its racist, anti-Semitic, anti-tax and anti-government ethos, had been a thorn in the side of elected and law enforcement officials for years, and state and local officials were planning to use zoning violations to break up the camp.
But the pressure rose nearly to the breaking point when Minniecheske reached behind his back, pulled out a .45 caliber pistol and slammed it down on a coffee table.
"He said that we would wade knee-deep in blood if we attempted to remove them," Hintz, now 69 and living in Dunedin, Fla., said in a phone interview. Barbara Wickstrom, the wife of another Posse leader, James Wickstrom, who at the time was jailed in Milwaukee County, intervened and calmed the situation down.
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