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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“... one of five police trainers identified by Reuters”
Your MSM at work.
There is no compromising with these Leftists. There cannot be unity with them. Smart and serious people better start working on dividing this thing up in as peaceful a manner as possible, or the bloodshed will only be worse. It’s likely to be really ugly anyway.
This Rooters hit piece is sickening.
‘far-right’
Might as well embrace it. F the Left!
FReepers have identified communist radicals JULIA HARTE and ALEXANDRA ULMER as pushing a violent radical-left political agenda to Americans.
How come I’m laughing after reading that?
“far right” to a progressive is anyone who disagrees with them.
No one is more of a threat to or more despised by marxist democRATs and their media propagandists than an respected and admired authority figure who happens to be black, that refuses to stay on their plantation.
Definition of “Far Right”: Anyone who doesn’t follow the narrative of the Far Left.
Definition of “Far Left: Everyone who votes for any Democrat.
I’ve never trusted LEOs or Vets who Vote DemonRat. It’s like they never intended to honor their Oath.
I hope they train the officers in my area.
“She seems smart.”
You can teach a parrot to speak German.
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OK, and so like what’s the problem?
Otto West : Apes don’t read philosophy.
Wanda : Yes they do, Otto. They just don’t understand it.
Well, It goes without saying that if the cops were being trained by BLM, or maybe Antifa that would be quite alright for the likes of JULIA HARTE and ALEXANDRA ULMER.. These two are so far to the stinking left flies wouldn't land on them.!
This nation is hopelessly fracture and the only cure for it is open conflict..
Isn’t the labelling all relative?
“Far right” today was probably “centerline” in the 60’s. The transition was so slow that many did not even see it happening.
Our car is already in the left grader ditch.
This is a first-class smear job.
This is all part of the assault on Free Speech and Free Thought.
Think of the evil of trying to demonize and destroy someone for thinking an election may have been corrupted.
They are trying to make the loony base fear the MAGA people. That makes them dangerous. Look for pantifa riots this summer. When you see one, respond appropriately.
This is a first-class smear job.…
Just like Brandon’s “MAGA extremists” smear job.
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