Posted on 05/06/2022 5:04:01 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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.
Whitehead is part of a trend in pushing a radical-right political agenda to American police forces. He’s one of five police trainers identified by Reuters whose political commentary on social media has echoed extremist opinions or who have public ties to far-right figures.
The five trainers have aired views including the belief in a vote-rigging conspiracy to unseat Trump in the 2020 election. One trainer attended Trump’s January 6, 2021, rally at the U.S. Capitol that devolved into a riot, injuring more than 100 police officers. Two of the trainers have falsely asserted that prominent Democrats including President Joe Biden are pedophiles, a core tenet of the QAnon conspiracy theory. Four have endorsed or posted records of their past interactions with far-right extremist figures, including prominent “constitutional sheriff” leader David Clarke Jr. and Proud Boys leader Joe Biggs, who is being prosecuted for his involvement in the Capitol riots.
Private trainers work in an unregulated industry that largely has evaded the heightened scrutiny of U.S. policing in recent years in the wake of high-profile police killings of civilians. Trainers like those identified by Reuters, a half dozen police-training specialists say, highlight a lack of standards and oversight that allows instruction that can often exaggerate the threats that officers face, making them more likely to respond with excessive force in stressful situations.
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For Al Reuters “far right” = MAGA hats
Are any people with far left ties training police officers? Or shouldn’t we worry about that?
As opposed to the abortion loving teachers trying to offend parents by telling kids to role play homosexuality.... Yea, the Left has gone, and then gone farther and they are Lost.
Compared to far left trainers training THOUSANDS of cops and FBI...
One would think, if they are “far right” trainers, they are more inclined to respect your Rights during an encounter. One would have less to fear from them than if the trainer was a far leftist fascist.
Julia and Alexandra need to go get a bottle of wine and hit the sack.
It would not be hard to write this article about genuinely violent antifa and BLM goons with day jobs as college instructors and school teachers.
I.e. communists.
Sounds like my kind of guy.
From Bunker Hill to the present, the British establishment (E.g., Reuters and this hit piece) has despised the United States and would do it wrong if it could. The only exception was Churchill, and his mother was American.
Is Reuters an arm of the DHS now looking for extremists?
Some information on what is being taught would be helpful.
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Ah, so far we get mandadory climate, COVID, and abortion fear porn. Now, we’ll be getting mandatory Nazi fear porn.
It’s Reuters. Should be more properly called Roto-Reuters. All the s*** fit to serve.
Compared to leftist groomer lgbt pedos training your kids in school?
That’s why it’s not included.
“May I suggest using your nightstick, Officer?”
She seems smart.
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