TACOMA, WA – Pierce County Sheriff Keith Swank says he “won’t be silenced” despite coming under the microscope of the Washington State Criminal Justice Training Commission following a series of provocative social media posts made by the sheriff after the Aug. 27 mass shooting at a Catholic school in Minnesota.
The suspect who shot and killed two children and injured 18 others during the first week of school was identified as a man claiming to be transgender.
Days later, Swank posted on X: “Do you think it’s time to ban trans people from owning guns?…