In 2017, the Kinney family stopped paying their mortgage on their North Mississippi home.
The family blamed their decision on confusing paperwork. But others have noted that the members of the family have adopted some of the trademark tactics of the Moorish sovereign citizen movement, which often refuses to acknowledge laws or government authority, and which sometimes clashes with banks and landlords, tying up the courts to make debts go away.
In 2018, the bank foreclosed on the Kinneys. Two brothers, Roman and Edward Ozeruga, bought the house at an auction.
In 2020, after the sheriff s office attempted to evict the family in September, William Kinney III, who goes by William Nietzche, called for an Occupy Wall Street -style encampment.