Grab him up, take him to the river: Inside a KKK murder plot

[Nevilledog]

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The FBI uncovered a KKK plot to murder a Black man in Florida in 2015. An informant recorded the klan’s planning and twisted logic for the killing, and @AP got the tapes. They provide a rare, detailed look inside the undercover investigation.

Grab him up, take him to the river: Inside a KKK murder plot
PALATKA, Fla. (AP) — Joseph Moore breathed heavily, his face slick with nervous sweat. He held a cellphone with a photo of a man splayed on the floor; the man appeared dead, his shirt torn apart and...
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10:42 PM · Jul 26, 2021

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PALATKA, Fla. (AP) — Joseph Moore breathed heavily, his face slick with nervous sweat. He held a cellphone with a photo of a man splayed on the floor; the man appeared dead, his shirt torn apart and his pants wet.

Puffy dark clouds blocked the sun as Moore greeted another man, who’d pulled up in a metallic blue sedan. They met behind an old fried chicken shack in rural north Florida.

“KIGY, my brother,” Moore said. It was shorthand for “Klansman, I greet you.”

Birds chirped in a tree overhead and traffic whooshed by on a nearby road, muddling the sound of their voices, which were being recorded secretly.

Moore brought the phone to David “Sarge” Moran, who wore a camouflage-print baseball hat emblazoned with a Confederate flag patch and a metal cross. His arms and hands were covered in tattoos.

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[llashram]

1. been going on since

1619 and still counting AmeriKKKa. Approx...19.6 generations of white supremacist terrorists trying to impose their will on all who DO NOT see their white skin as anything other than just the colour of some human beings. Nothing special. This shit is getting really old...

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

2. Damn straight!

[dalton99a]

3. "The state's Department of Corrections says it found no reason to investigate"

In the end, a jury convicted Moran and Newcomb of conspiracy to commit murder. They were each sentenced to 12 years. Driver received four years after pleading guilty, and is due out this year.

Because of threats in Florida prisons, Driver was moved secretly to another state to serve his time, according to a source with knowledge of the case. Even though they are in prison, neither Newcomb nor Moran were in Florida’s inmate locator system and could not be reached for comment.

Even though three current and former Florida prison guards were exposed as klansmen, the state’s Department of Corrections says it found no reason to investigate whether other white supremacists were employed in its prisons.

On a recent visit to the prison where the three klansmen worked, numerous cars and trucks in the employee and volunteer parking lots were decorated with symbols associated with white supremacy: Confederate flags, QAnon symbols and Thin Blue Line flag decals.

[chowder66]

4. Williams and his mother need to be relocated. nt