Students burn Confederate flag to protest KKK ties to racist Florida cops and prison guards
A militia group failed to show up to protest a Florida rally against the Ku Klux Klan, but one white supremacist sympathizer drove past blaring “Dixie” from a car.
About 100 activists gathered outside the Old Capitol in Tallahassee, where they burned a Confederate flag, to protest recent KKK activity in the area and draw attention to the links between the hate group and law enforcement, reported the Tallahassee Democrat.
Two employees of the Department of Corrections and one former employee linked to the KKK were arrested last week in a plot to kill an inmate.
Four police officers, including one who made a pro-KKK video, resigned or were fired this year over their racist texts expressing their fantasies of executing black suspects.
A deputy police chief in Fruitland Park resigned in July and another officer was fired after the FBI reported the pair had KKK ties, and another officer stepped down five years earlier over photos showing him in a KKK robe and hood.
“We have to tell the Klan that we want them out of our communities, out of our town, out of our public offices,” said Nicky Nora, president of the Students for a Democratic Society – which organized the protest.
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