Inside a KKK murder plot: Grab him up, take him to the river
Source: Associated Press
Inside a KKK murder plot: Grab him up, take him to the river
By JASON DEAREN
July 27, 2021
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, whod 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.
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It was 11:30 a.m. on March 19, 2015, and the klansmen were celebrating what they thought was a successful murder in Florida.
But the FBI had gotten wind of the murder plot. A confidential informant had infiltrated the group, and his recordings provide a rare, detailed look at the inner workings of a modern klan cell and a domestic terrorism probe.
That investigation would unearth another secret: An unknown number of klansmen were working inside the Florida Department of Corrections, with significant power over inmates, Black and white.
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