Florida cop resigns after being linked to KKK

[Hugabear]

http://www.dailycommercial.com/020709kkk

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A police officer has resigned from his department after being linked to the Ku Klux Klan.

Fruitland Park reserve officer James Elkins, 28, quit his job at the Fruitland Park Police Department on Jan. 20 amid allegations that Klan literature being distributed in Sumter County had come from his Post Office box.

Elkins was initially suspended amid the allegations and his badge and gun were taken away.

His resignation and ties to the group picked up more exposure this week after pictures of Elkins in Klan regalia as well as a Klan certificate with his name on it were sent to the Lake County Sheriff's Office.
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I saw this on the front page of the newspaper in Leesburg, FL (less than an hour outside of Orlando) over the weekend. Nice way to perpetuate a stereotype, asshole!

[CitizenPatriot]

1. this is terrifying

here's an idea for stimulus:

hire progressives to do background checks on all public officials, officers, etc.

ENOUGH with the KKK cross-over. Where is the indignation and the outrage? I'm tired of this crap. I'm tired of certain people having to be scared of a TRAFFIC stop because the cop might be a KKK member! What fucking year is this????

ENOUGH.

[Hugabear]

3. No fucking shit.

I would love to see someone do an investigation on this asshole's record as a cop. How many minorities did he target with his authority?

[CitizenPatriot]

17. that is a VERY good question

who would investigate such a thing? I feel like writing a letter.

[vaberella]

9. I've learned one thing...Don't be Black on the road at night especially in NJ.

That State in particular is notorious for racism and they publicly admitted it.

[Marrah_G]

11. He might have hooked up with the KKK after being hired

Also, a background check would not have found out he was a member of a club like this.

[Hugabear]

14. Who knew the KKK handed out membership certificates?

For a "secret society", doesn't seem very discreet to me. Then again, nobody ever accused these idiots of being the brightest among us.

[Marrah_G]

16. Yeah that caught my eye too....crazy people

[CitizenPatriot]

18. right? geeze. do they frame these things? nt

[T Wolf]

2. What stereotype? That many cops are bigotted assholes? That Florida is home to

many worthless people? Be specific.

[Hugabear]

4. Specfically? About cops in the South, and the South in general

Hell, all you have to do is look at some of the threads here on DU.

[Ghost in the Machine]

7. What about all of your Northern racists??

According to the SPLC there are 38 identified racists groups in Tennessee, 42 in Georgia, 45 in South Carolina, 24 in Alabama & 28 in North Carolina. There are also 26 in New York, 33 in Pennsylvania & 34 in New Jersey.

Hate crimes in the North far outnumber those of the South. In 2008, there were 34 incidents reported in Pennsylvania, 68 in New York & 18 in New Jersey, compared to 11 in North Carolina, 8 in South Carolina, 9 in Tennessee, 9 in Alabama & 8 in Georgia. Please feel free to check it out for yourselves: http://www.splcenter.org/intel/map/hate.jsp and http://www.splcenter.org/intel/hatewatch/fortherecord.jsp


A quick education for the South bashers here...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=4857835

[vaberella]

12. NJ is out of control. Read the article "Driving While Black"---we call it around my way DWB.

The ones in NY are way way way upstate so us City people rarely meet them. And upstate they're like red necks up there, it's like going to the south.

http://www.counterpunch.org/drivingblack.html

[Hugabear]

13. Not "Southern-bashing" - just pointing out the stereotype exists, and this asshole cop doesn't help

n/t

[underpants]

5. Frightening but not all that unexpected

that doesn't make it okay of course. This sort of thing needs to be monitored and apparently it is, in this case.

[YOY]

6. "Some of those who work forces, are the same as those who burn crosses."

I'm no huge Rage Against the Machine...but talk about being right.

[vaberella]

8. Why do they always look like sperm to me...oy n/t

[Froward69]

10. This is certainly NOT isolated.

nor just in the south. my Niece-in-law got a job in the state public Defenders office. (she always wanted to be a prosecutor but a job is a job) Four months since she got the job, she now has a negative adjective for every Department. She is recoiling at the obvious bigotry, bias and incarceration fetish MOST cops have.

She even said her job has given her a new appreciation for me and my attitude.

[backscatter712]

15. Can we lynch this kop?

That would be poetic justice...