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Monday, May 9th, 2022

U.S. police trainers with far-right ties are teaching hundreds of cops

Author:     JULIA HARTE and ALEXANDRA ULMER
Source:     Reuters Special Report
Publication Date:     May 6, 2022, 10 a.m. GMT
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Stephan:   Part of the problem with American law enforcement is that not only are American police and sheriffs by far the worst and shortest in terms of time trained law enforcement amongst the developed democracies of the world, the people who train them tend to be christofascist thugs. Reuters has done a special report on this, and here it is.
Law enforcement trainer Richard Whitehead has publicly espoused far-right extremist views and, in the classroom, has drawn complaints of using offensive language and content targeting women, Muslims and transgender people. Credit: Jim Urquhart / Reuters

On social media, Richard Whitehead is a warrior for the American right. He has praised extremist groups. He has called for public executions of government officials he sees as disloyal to former President Donald Trump. In a post in 2020, he urged law enforcement officers to disobey COVID-19 public-health orders from “tyrannical governors,” adding: “We are on the brink of civil war.”

Whitehead also has a day job. He trains police officers around the United States.

The Idaho-based law enforcement consultant has taught at least 560 police officers and other public safety workers in 85 sessions in 12 states over the past four years, according to a Reuters analysis of public records from the departments that hired him. A Washington state training commission in 2015 temporarily banned Whitehead from advertising courses on its website because of instructional materials that referred to […]

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1 Comment

  1. Rev. Dean on Tuesday, May 10, 2022 at 11:39 pm

    The same comment I put in the previous article applies here too.