Bluestem Prairie continues to find greater Minnesota's patriot community to be a source of astonishment. The latest case is a humdinger.
Back in June, we reported COVID vaccine stealing guy gets booted from Lisa Hanson's Dodge County Courthouse hearing. In this nugget, Waseca Patriot and auto detailing shop owner Keith Haskell and vaccine thief Thomas Humphrey wore National Action Task Force (NATF) t-shirts.
On Thursday afternoon, as the screenshot above illustrates, Haskell posted on his personal Facebook page that he had been named state coordinator for the National Action Task Force, whose logo looks a great deal like a police officer's badge, though the organization itself does not appear to be part of law enforcement.
Rather, it described itself in these terms in a press release:
. . .The National Action Task Force (N.A.T.F) http://www.natf.world/, a grass roots movement is gaining traction to help restore the rule of law and respect for the constitution of the United States of America.
N.A.T.F. is a decentralized national network of volunteer investigators, who are dedicated to identifying unconstitutional activity and corruption on a local level, calling it out and using various means to correct errant public servants when they overstep their delegated authority.
An important focus is not only teaching people what their rights are but giving instruction on how to defend and protect them. N.A.T.F. works to build strong alliances with their public servants who are dedicated oath keepers. In the alternative, they work to identify and call out those who are violating their oaths with unauthorized un-American activity.
Haskell himself, however, does seem to have experienced some confusion about what constitutes law enforcement.
Curious about what qualifications Mr. Haskell might have for this position, we started with our friend Mr. Google News. Curiously, the information that jumped out wasn't about auto detailing or patriot organizing.
Nope. What we found were various iterations of this CBS Minnesota new story, Charges: Pastor Impersonated Police Officer, Pepper-Sprayed Teenage Shoplifters:
A pastor in southern Minnesota is facing charges for pretending to be a police officer and pepper spraying a teenager he caught shoplifting.
Keith Douglas Haskell, 55, faces five counts of misdemeanor fifth degree assault, in addition to the charge or impersonating a peace officer and felony use of tear gas to immobilize.
“I think he got what he deserves,” said Abraam Rodriguez, one of the teenagers at the center of the case.
Rodriguez said on Sept. 4, he and his cousin went to the Cash Wise grocery store. He admits his cousin shoplifted about $10 in snacks. In the documents, Haskell told officers he saw the teenagers grab cereal and fruit snacks without paying. He said he went outside to write down their license plate, then followed them when they left.
Rodriquez said he pulled his SUV into a nearby apartment parking lot because he didn’t want Haskell to know exactly where he lived.
According to the court documents, witnesses who live near the scene told investigators they could hear Haskell identifying himself out loud as a police officer and trying to pull the teenagers out of the SUV. Haskell is a pastor at Bridges of Hope Community Church. . . .
In Case Number: 74-CR-17-1905, documents online in the MCRO system show that all charges were dismissed save the impersonating a peace officer, a gross misdemeanor. Sentencing was pronounced on October 18, 2018.
Was this overzealous pastor the same Keith Haskell? The mug shot from the Owatonna police department, used in the CBS report, and a recent portrait on Haskell's personal Facebook page bear a passing but inconclusive resemblance.
According to the inactive business filing for Mr. Haskell's auto detailing business-Automotive Detailing Professionals Inc--at the Minnesota Secretary of State's online records, Haskell used one address on Mosher Avenue in Owatonna on the document for the "Principal Executive Office Address" and another address on 20th St NW in Owatonna as the "Registered Office Address."
Those same addresses appear in the court documents for Case Number: 74-CR-17-1905 that are in MCRO. The "10/20/2017 E-filed Comp-Summons" lists the 20th St. NW address, while the 10/18/2018 Sentencing Order notes as the Mosher Avenue address, though it is "Suite A" while the business filing lists the Mosher Avenue "Suite B" filing.
We're not posting the full addresses--which are matters of public record--because our purpose isn't to dox Mr. Haskell. Indeed, reports about his auto detailing are glowing, should you need such services.
Rather, it's the irony of the material about the rule of law and the use of a shield--as well as the image of a pastor chasing teens for shoplifting ("10/20/2017 E-filed Comp-Summons")
* One box of Cinnamon Toast Crunch, valued at $2.97;
* One box of Scooby Doo fruit snacks, valued at $2.17;
* One box of Gushers, valued at $2.17; and
* One box of fruit rollups, valued at $2.17
As the one young shoplifter noted, if you see a shoplifter, call an officer.
It's worthy of development by sit-com writers.
Now it's possible there were two different Keith Haskells using the same addresses, but we are skeptical.
Screengrab: A post from Haskell's personal Facebook page. He now uses the NATF logo as his portrait on that page.
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