A California cop who wore a far-right patch to a George Floyd protest won't be fired

[Nevilledog]

https://www.businessinsider.com/cop-wore-far-right-patch-george-floyd-protest-not-fired-2020-8

At a June protest in Costa Mesa, California, activists opposed to the police killing of George Floyd captured video showing a member of the Orange County Sheriff's Department with a patch associated with far-right paramilitary groups.

The story spurred an internal investigation, coming amid reports that fringe extremist groups have been increasingly successful at infiltrating law enforcement.

That investigation has now concluded, with the sheriff of Orange County announcing that the deputy will be keeping his job. He and his colleagues will also undergo training on the threat posed by the organizations explicitly honored on his uniform.

The patch in question displayed a logo for the Three Percenters — a movement whose followers, including a former sheriff's deputy, bombed a Minnesota mosque in 2017 — above the term "Oathkeeper," a reference to a paramilitary organization that recently declared the US to be in a state of "civil war." The members of such vigilante groups often appear in public heavily armed, sometimes in uniforms that suggest an official capacity, purporting to uphold their interpretation of the law, sans oversight or legal sanction.

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[msongs]

1. orange county sheriffs lololololololol nt

[CanonRay]

2. Another cesspool of a police department

[rockfordfile]

3. He should be in jail.

[stillcool]

4. They give themselves away...

they might as well all wear their white supremacy badges on their arms, Licensed to kill.

[Duncan Grant]

5. K&R/bookmarked/nt