Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was a ProPublica reporter.
  • frezik
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    3 days ago

    A tidbit that isn’t the most important thing in the story, but says a lot on its own:

    Kinch came to serve in elite detective units over 23 years in the force, hunting fugitives and helping take down gangs like the Playboy Bloods. Eventually he was assigned to what he called the “Black squad,” according to court records, tasked with investigating violent crimes where the suspect was African American. (A Las Vegas police spokesperson told me they stopped “dividing squads by a suspect’s race” a year before Kinch retired.)

    When reading this, I thought the policy was likely dropped in my lifetime, but probably in the 90s. Further down, it turned out he retired in 2016. Meaning Las Vegas had that policy up through the late Obama Administration.

    Is it any wonder that these militia groups are riddled with cops?