The fallout surrounding a photo showing recent graduates of a corrections officers’ training program throwing up Nazi salutes was just the most recent example of how prevalent white supremacist allegiances are in law enforcement across the country. And while at least three of the more than 30 officers in West Virginia were fired after being exposed for glorifying the racist gesture, chances are that won’t stop the continued infiltration of police departments by white supremacists, which is all but an American tradition.
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“The two academy trainers and a cadet were not identified in a statement from the state’s Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety,” NBC News reported. “Thirty-four people remain suspended without pay amid the investigation by the department and its Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation.”
The episode in West Virginia came on the heels of a police officer in Connecticut being outed as a member of the Proud Boys, a group that the Southern Poverty Law Center calls a hate group whose “leaders regularly spout white nationalist memes and maintain affiliations with known extremists.” The Connecticut cop reportedly left the Proud Boys because he suspected its members would be slammed by “far-left political organizations” and labeled as bigots due to their “love” for President Donald Trump — not because he disagreed with the group’s racist philosophy.
Source: West Virginia White Supremacist Officers Are Latest Racists Exposed In Law Enforcement
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