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The City of Anniston, Alabama, announced this afternoon that it will fire a city police officer following revelations about his membership with the white nationalist hate group League of the South (LOS) first published here at Hatewatch.
Update: The 21 year old suspect, Dylann Storm Roof, was arrested this morning in Shelby, North Carolina, about 250 miles from where nine people were killed in a Charleston church last night.
Following last night’s horrific shooting at a historic African American church in Charleston, S.C., where at least nine people were killed, the racist right responded with expected vitriol. The two biggest white supremacist message boards, Stormfront and Vanguard News Network (VNN) were alight with talk about the murders and the suspected shooter, identified by authorities as Dylann Storm Roof.
In 2013, Josh Doggrell took the stage at the national conference for the neo-Confederate League of the South (LOS). In a non-descript suit-and-tie, he spoke about gun rights, county supremacy, the state of law enforcement in Alabama and his loyalty to the League.
In the hierarchy of cultural influence within America's radical right, Stormfront.org is generally viewed as the dumpster out behind the Drudge Report drive-thru. Most people don't even notice it.
The Anniston, Alabama Police Department placed two of its officers on administrative leave today following a Hatewatch article detailing the officers’ membership in the neo-Confederate hate group League of the South.
In 2013, Josh Doggrell took the stage at the national conference for the neo-Confederate League of the South (LOS). In a non-descript suit-and-tie, he spoke about gun rights, county supremacy, the state of law enforcement in Alabama and his loyalty to the League.
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