GREEN BAY – Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame member Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila was tasered and arrested in Brown County Circuit Court Tuesday when he refused to comply with a judge's order and did not cooperate with deputies.

He was briefly taken to jail following the altercation for resisting arrest.

The incident began when Gbaja-Biamila refused to sign a document in his divorce case, which he previously had agreed to sign.

Judge Donald Zuidmulder sentenced Gbaja-Biamila to six months in county jail for refusing to sign the documents, and left the room while 10 Brown County sheriff's deputies surrounded Gbaja-Biamila at the defense table and for several minutes tried to talk the 6-foot-4 inch former football player into complying with the judge's arrest order. He repeatedly said he did not consent to the order.

He was eventually tasered and handcuffed, with the resisting arrest charge added to his day's troubles.

In due course, Gbaja-Biamila agreed to sign the document, which freed him of the contempt charge, but Zuidmulder, who returned to the courtroom, said he couldn't help Gbaja-Biamila with the added charge of resisting and he was taken to jail.

Gbaja-Biamila, as he has done on a number of occasions, represented himself in the legal proceedings. He has unsuccessfully tried to convince a series of judges and court commissioners of his theory of sovereign citizenship and the belief that his religious views supersede civil law.

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He spent considerable time in court Tuesday quoting the Old Testament in defense of his position that the civil court had no jurisdiction over him. Zuidmulder was initially patient, even after Gbaja-Biamila interrupted him at the start of the hearing.

Then he lost patience.

"I'm not communicating, I'm ordering," Zuidmulder said, after explaining to Gbaja-Biamila that he could not rescind an earlier agreement to release certain investments to his ex-wife.

Zuidmulder said Gbaja-Biamila was being unfair to him by forcing him to order the ex-player to jail while the novel coronavirus pandemic was at hand. No cases have been confirmed in Brown County, but health experts say it's a matter of time.

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Gbaja-Biamila opened the proceeding by saying he was not in court in person or as a respondent, but as a man. He said that despite providing the court with a birth certificate from California, "I am not a citizen of the republic."

He lectured Zuidmulder on the judge's responsibilities for upholding the U.S. and state constitutions while the judge listened, chin resting in one hand.

"I have my own laws which are superior," Gbaja-Biamila said.

Zuidmulder went along, acceeding to Gbaja-Biamila's request to be referred to as "man" and saying he respected his right to worship the way he wanted to, but none of that would free him of obeying the law.

"I have to tell you, the law doesn't operate that way," Zuidmulder said before asking Gbaja-Biamila several times if he was going to sign the document.

Gbaja-Biamila continued to state that he "didn't consent," which has never proven to be the talisman he wants it to be, and Zuidmulder imposed the six-month sentence.

An attorney who appeared to know Gbaja-Biamila stepped forward with an offer to help him with getting bonded out of jail after he was tasered, handcuffed and strapped to a chair for transport because he was still unsteady on his feet. He made it clear he did not want her to represent him, however, because he did not want to become "a ward of the state."

Brown County jail staff said he was out of jail by early afternoon.

Contact Richard Ryman at (920) 431-8342 or rryman@gannett.com. Follow him on Twitter at @RichRymanPG, on Instagram at @rrymanPG or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/RichardRymanPG/