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New AP/ABC film probes white supremacy in law enforcement
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Dozens of robed Ku Klux Klansmen gathered around a burning cross in a remote field in North Florida. It was December 2014, and after the cross lighting ceremony ended, three klansmen asked for a quiet aside with the group’s Grand Knighthawk, a klan hitman. The knighthawk was Joe Moore, a former Army sniper who’d joined the group and quickly risen through the ranks due to his military background. The men handed Moore a photograph of a Black man that they wanted killed.
The story of the klan’s murder plot and the hitman’s secret recordings made over months in 2015 formed the basis of an Associated Press 2021 investigative series called “The Badge and The Cross,” which used the story as a jumping off point to explore the issue of white supremacist group infiltration of law enforcement.
Now, a new Hulu documentary, “Grand Knighthawk: Infiltrating the KKK,” based on The AP’s award-winning investigative series, begins streaming on Thursday. It was produced by ABC News Studios and George Stephanopoulos Productions in a first-time collaboration with The AP.
The story of the klan’s murder plot and the hitman’s secret recordings made over months in 2015 formed the basis of an Associated Press 2021 investigative series called “The Badge and The Cross,” which used the story as a jumping off point to explore the issue of white supremacist group infiltration of law enforcement.
Now, a new Hulu documentary, “Grand Knighthawk: Infiltrating the KKK,” based on The AP’s award-winning investigative series, begins streaming on Thursday. It was produced by ABC News Studios and George Stephanopoulos Productions in a first-time collaboration with The AP.
New AP/ABC film probes white supremacy in law enforcement
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9 years plus … of warnings being dismissed and downplayed.
On this dayDec 24, 1865
Confederate Veterans Establish the Ku Klux Klan :
On December 24, 1865, a group of former Confederate soldiers established what would become the first chapter of the Ku Klux Klan, or KKK, in Pulaski, Tennessee. Named for the Greek word “kyklos,” which means circle, the KKK was devoted to white supremacy and to ending Reconstruction in the South. The Klan’s first leader, called a Grand Wizard, was former Confederate Lieutenant General Nathan Bedford Forrest.
SOURCE : https://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/dec/24
A plaque with the words 'Ku Klux Klan' still hangs on a building at West Point
Updated September 1, 2022 3:33 PM ET
A plaque with the words "Ku Klux Klan" written below a hooded figure holding what appears to be a rifle currently hangs on a building at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in New York.
The marker referencing one of the country's most infamous hate groups is garnering attention due to a special commission formed to look into connections to the Confederacy at U.S. military bases and other properties.
The KKK was formed in 1865 by six Confederate veterans of the Civil War and initially targeted Black people in the postwar South before also turning its hateful agenda against Jews, Catholics and others.
In a statement, the U.S. Military Academy's Public Affairs Office said the image is part of a large triptych that depicts the history of the U.S., and that the three bronze panels attempt to document "both tragedy and triumph" in America's past.
SOURCE : https://www.npr.org/2022/08/31/ [login to see] /west-point-ku-klux-klan-kkk-confederacy-military
Former KKK member warns Congress of danger of veterans turning to extremism
* Samantha Manning Apr 1, 2022 Updated Feb 10, 2023
SOURCE : https://www.fox13memphis.com/news/former-kkk-member-warns-congress-of-danger-of-veterans-turning-to-extremism/article_513e4fbd-16a0-59a2-a3ab-030292da4312.html
He Liked the Pro-America, Pro-Constitution Vibe. But He Liked the Rage, Too.
June 23, 2022
Since the attack on the U.S. Capitol a year and a half ago, where some 15% of the rioters had a military background, the military and veteran community has grappled with the problem of far-right extremism within its ranks. Just this month, the Justice Department indicted five members of the Proud Boys on charges of sedition stemming from the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Four of them were veterans, including one who had been awarded a Purple Heart.
Determining actual numbers is difficult, though it appears to be small. But veterans’ presence can bring a perception of credibility to these groups—particularly militia groups, where their numbers are larger.
SOURCE : https://thewarhorse.org/military-veterans-targeted-by-extremists-preying-on-patriots/
VICE: KU KLUX KLAN RECRUITING VETERANS TO BOOST NUMBERS
December 18, 2014
The Ku Klux Klan, which in recent years has been a shadow of its once monolithic self, has been trying to make a comeback. From handing out candy to children, appearing in robes on the U.S.-Mexican border to protest President Obama's executive action on immigration—even raising money for Darren Wilson, the police officer who killed Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo.—it seems Klansman are everywhere.
Is the Klan growing?
This week, Vice published a video report on the Klan experiencing a rise in members, in part fueled by a strategy that targets veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. In it, host Rocco Castoro talks with the SPLC’s Mark Potok about hate group recruitment often being tied to military conflict.
“There is a very high degree of interest on the part of Klan groups in returning military veterans with high end military skills that they think will be useful to them one day,” Potok said. “A lot of these men are coming back traumatized with serious PTSD and other problems.
The economy is not good.
They’re not getting jobs, so they come home to find a situation that is not very good for them. … What some veterans find in these groups is family.”
SOURCE : https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2014/12/18/vice-ku-klux-klan-recruiting-veterans-boost-numbers
On this dayDec 24, 1865
Confederate Veterans Establish the Ku Klux Klan :
On December 24, 1865, a group of former Confederate soldiers established what would become the first chapter of the Ku Klux Klan, or KKK, in Pulaski, Tennessee. Named for the Greek word “kyklos,” which means circle, the KKK was devoted to white supremacy and to ending Reconstruction in the South. The Klan’s first leader, called a Grand Wizard, was former Confederate Lieutenant General Nathan Bedford Forrest.
SOURCE : https://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/dec/24
A plaque with the words 'Ku Klux Klan' still hangs on a building at West Point
Updated September 1, 2022 3:33 PM ET
A plaque with the words "Ku Klux Klan" written below a hooded figure holding what appears to be a rifle currently hangs on a building at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in New York.
The marker referencing one of the country's most infamous hate groups is garnering attention due to a special commission formed to look into connections to the Confederacy at U.S. military bases and other properties.
The KKK was formed in 1865 by six Confederate veterans of the Civil War and initially targeted Black people in the postwar South before also turning its hateful agenda against Jews, Catholics and others.
In a statement, the U.S. Military Academy's Public Affairs Office said the image is part of a large triptych that depicts the history of the U.S., and that the three bronze panels attempt to document "both tragedy and triumph" in America's past.
SOURCE : https://www.npr.org/2022/08/31/ [login to see] /west-point-ku-klux-klan-kkk-confederacy-military
Former KKK member warns Congress of danger of veterans turning to extremism
* Samantha Manning Apr 1, 2022 Updated Feb 10, 2023
SOURCE : https://www.fox13memphis.com/news/former-kkk-member-warns-congress-of-danger-of-veterans-turning-to-extremism/article_513e4fbd-16a0-59a2-a3ab-030292da4312.html
He Liked the Pro-America, Pro-Constitution Vibe. But He Liked the Rage, Too.
June 23, 2022
Since the attack on the U.S. Capitol a year and a half ago, where some 15% of the rioters had a military background, the military and veteran community has grappled with the problem of far-right extremism within its ranks. Just this month, the Justice Department indicted five members of the Proud Boys on charges of sedition stemming from the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Four of them were veterans, including one who had been awarded a Purple Heart.
Determining actual numbers is difficult, though it appears to be small. But veterans’ presence can bring a perception of credibility to these groups—particularly militia groups, where their numbers are larger.
SOURCE : https://thewarhorse.org/military-veterans-targeted-by-extremists-preying-on-patriots/
VICE: KU KLUX KLAN RECRUITING VETERANS TO BOOST NUMBERS
December 18, 2014
The Ku Klux Klan, which in recent years has been a shadow of its once monolithic self, has been trying to make a comeback. From handing out candy to children, appearing in robes on the U.S.-Mexican border to protest President Obama's executive action on immigration—even raising money for Darren Wilson, the police officer who killed Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo.—it seems Klansman are everywhere.
Is the Klan growing?
This week, Vice published a video report on the Klan experiencing a rise in members, in part fueled by a strategy that targets veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. In it, host Rocco Castoro talks with the SPLC’s Mark Potok about hate group recruitment often being tied to military conflict.
“There is a very high degree of interest on the part of Klan groups in returning military veterans with high end military skills that they think will be useful to them one day,” Potok said. “A lot of these men are coming back traumatized with serious PTSD and other problems.
The economy is not good.
They’re not getting jobs, so they come home to find a situation that is not very good for them. … What some veterans find in these groups is family.”
SOURCE : https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2014/12/18/vice-ku-klux-klan-recruiting-veterans-boost-numbers
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