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Nebraska Supreme Court Upholds State Trooper’s Firing Over Klan Membership
Seattle Times
/February 27, 2009
The Nebraska Supreme Court ruled that ex-State Trooper Robert Hendersen’s constitutional rights were not violated when he was fired in 2006 after law enforcement officials learned that he’d joined the Knights Party, a Ku Klux Klan organization, in 2004.
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on March 5th, 2009 at 3:40 pm
Three cheers for Nebraska, there are far too many “police officer” members of these hate groups, kluckers being the most visible. This news should be well publicized so the potential police klan recruits get the message.
on March 5th, 2009 at 6:34 pm
All military and police recruits should be screened for sociopathic and racist tendencies.
on March 6th, 2009 at 12:22 am
When you wear the “uniform” to serve the people…You where it with Pride to honor the protection and to defend against those who commit acts of wrong, or to help another when something goes wrong…When we police our streets, and our cities and more….there must be rememberance to why we serve…and that is to never deny another the right to live, to breathe and harness the fidelity of life…A Trooper to serve the federal, should never become less…Apachecheynne
on March 6th, 2009 at 6:28 pm
The Nebraska Supreme Court made the right decision. Its a win-win situation for the “Rule of Law”
and the citizens of Nebraska. There is no legal justification for joining such dangerous hategroups, given the history between law enforcement and white extremists whose idealogies also comprised of anti-government–anti-law enforcement rhetoric and attitudes.
The firing makes perfect sense.