Key Oath Keepers leader revealed as former Las Vegas police detective
Key Oath Keepers leader revealed as former Las Vegas police detective
Details about Utah-based Robert Kinch, who backed ‘race war’, suggest rightwing militia has retained links with police
Summary
Robert “Bobby” Kinch, a former Las Vegas homicide detective, is revealed as the leader of the Utah-based Oath Keepers USA, a spinoff of the militia linked to the January 6 Capitol attack.
Kinch, who retired from the force in 2016, has a controversial history, including Facebook posts advocating a “race war” and a photo of him pointing a gun at a plate with Barack Obama’s image.
Critics highlight the threat of extremists in law enforcement.
The Oath Keepers remain active, adding police officers to their ranks amid Trump’s potential return to power.
Remember when every single house Republican voted against investigating the depth of white supremacist penetration into the armed forces and police departments? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/house-republicans-vote-against-neo-223633093.html
We have decided not to investigate ourselves and found absolutely no evidence of wrongdoing
Some of those that work forces...
Man, it is really depressing having to still qoute a 33 year old RATM song.
I think the line should have been
MOST of those that work forces...
It certainly turns out to be so.
Some... uh... some of those that... ya know, work forces. Just... just sayin'
It's such a meaningful lyric, but forces and crosses don't exactly rhyme.
In my head, I like to switch the lyrics to be about the mounted police units.
Some of those that work forces
Also mount and ride horses
This also has the bonus of entirely obliterating the meaning.
That's an overly simplistic view of rhyming.
In the general sense, general rhyme can refer to various kinds of phonetic similarity between words, and the use of such similar-sounding words in organizing verse. Rhymes in this general sense are classified according to the degree and manner of the phonetic similarity
Also mount and ride horses
Hehehe... Officer Mr. Hands.
Wow lemmy has more toxicity then reddit. Been thinking about leaving this place.
You mean the same people who regularly shoot unarmed black people, do all kinds of shitty things to get poor people in jail, and work for an institution originally implemented to catch slaves are led by a militant racist?
Color me surprised. Almost like that was obvious a long ass time ago.
This guy is special. He apparently had several plaques in his house with a certain Hemingway quote:
"There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter."
There's an implication that he's killed several people while covered by the state's monopoly on violence, and he liked it. Even among cops, he's a special kind of terrible.
Wouldn't it be interesting if we started an investigation into how many right-wing extremists are currently holding positions in the White House? We already know at least one person opened a door for the Jan. 6th terrorists. I'm willing to bet that the rot goes a lot deeper than that...
I'm certainly interested
https://www.propublica.org/article/ap3-oath-keepers-militia-mole
Greta article talking about this very same guy and the mole who helped release the info.
Thunberg wasn't mentioned once in that whole article...
But seriously, I read the whole thing a couple days ago and what a ride. Dude was getting pretty paranoid towards the end, but he got out safely and now we have some knowledge of their inner workings. I hope he takes some comfort in that.
as i always say, ACAN, all cops are nazis
The department attempted to contain the fallout by quietly adopting a new social media policy in July 2015 that explicitly prohibits discriminatory speech and threatens termination for violations.
Makes sense. We don't care if you're racist, just don't advertise it because it makes the department look bad.
shocked...shocked I say!
Somehow not surprised.