High school journalists uncover Hitler quotes in Kentucky police training materials

[Behind the Aegis]

A report by Louisville, Kentucky, high school students has drawn national attention to local police training materials that quoted Adolf Hitler admiringly.

Hitler was the most-quoted person in a Kentucky State Police training presentation that encouraged officers to be “ruthless killers,” according to the report that appeared Friday in the Manual Redeye, the student newspaper of Louisville’s DuPont Manual High School. The presentation quotes from Mein Kampf and links to Hitler’s page on a social networking site about books, according to the report.

The student journalists, brothers Satchel and Cooper Walton, obtained the presentation because they are related to a partner at a law firm that had requested training materials as part of its work in a case related to a 2018 police killing, their article disclosed.

The report swiftly drew widespread attention from national news organizations and clarification from the state that the presentation had not been used since 2013. It also elicited condemnation from Kentucky officials and Jewish leaders.

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[barbtries]

1. i hadn't heard of it

and was watching Beau of the Fifth column when I saw your OP

[lunasun]

4. + 1 kick this too

[Behind the Aegis]

9. Thanks for adding this video!

I always wondered about him. Good to see his take.

[barbtries]

10. he's an interesting vlogger.

very smart.

[jaxexpat]

2. Kentucky never got over the civil war.

Lincoln's army pretty much gave Kentucky a 3 year "time out" for bad behavior in 1862. Then made them write "I will not secede the union" 10,000 times in CURSIVE! In front of the whole class, even INDIANA!
So much frustration, so much unvented anger. Lincoln warped the young Kentucky, who after the war began drinking heavily, had 2 failed marriages and finally, in a moonshine induced stupor od'ed on oxy in 2016.

[panader0]

7. Yep

[yardwork]

3. Incredible investigative reporting by these students!

Now Breanna Taylor's family can sue the state police academy too.

[lunasun]

5. Kick -Amazing HS student research

[marble falls]

6. My "favorite" quote: "the very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular ..

employment of violence.”

Seems like they've learned their lessons well.

[mucifer]

8. I'm glad this news is going viral. It's now in WaPo and NYT thanks BTA!

[Initech]

11. Some of those that work forces / are the same that burn crosses

[UTUSN]

12. K&R