"the army released information showing Jabbar and Matthew Livelsberger – a decorated special forces solider who died in an apparent suicide and vehicle bombing at a Trump hotel in Las Vegas on New Year’s Day –
both served in the military branch in Afghanistan for about seven months beginning in May 2009.
Livelsberger at the time was assigned to the 10th special forces group, and Jabbar was a human resources specialist."
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"Key Oath Keepers leader revealed as former Las Vegas police detective
Details about Utah-based Robert Kinch, who backed ‘race war’, suggest rightwing militia has retained links with police"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/06/oath-keepers-rightwing-militia-police
"The last plaque is emblazoned with a quote from Ernest Hemingway’s 1936 Esquire article, On the Blue Water:
“Certainly there is no hunting like the hunting of man
and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it,
never really care for anything else thereafter.”
"That company, in turn, has held the trademarks for Oath Keepers USA since May 2023, according to US Patent and Trademark Office records.
Text on the membership certificate reminds the recipient, that “as an Oath Keeper, the member has pledged NOT to obey the 10 specific unlawful actions listed in our ‘Declaration of Order We Will NOT Obey’”.
"A few months into 2014, Lt Clint Nichols, a Black officer who supervised Kinch, learned of the Facebook post and suspended him.
A subsequent internal investigation unearthed a photo showing Kinch pointing a handgun at a commemorative plate bearing Barack Obama’s image.
The photo was taken at a party where several police officers were present. The plate had been given to Kinch as a gag gift by a junior ROP officer, and the photo was brought to investigators’ attention by a union official.
The then deputy chief, Gary Schofield, alerted the United States Secret Service when he learned of the photo. This nearly triggered a federal raid that was only halted by an intervention by Sheriff Doug Gillespie, which slowed down federal investigators enough to forestall departmental embarrassment.
Despite a five-page memo from Nichols outlining why Kinch should no longer serve as an officer, the police department allowed him back to work with no more than a written reprimand.
Beirich called this outcome “completely unacceptable. It left an officer on the force who could be a danger to the constituents he was supposed to serve.”
"Kinch claimed he was transferred away from investigating cases involving Black suspects and had his overtime opportunities curtailed.
The department attempted to contain the fallout by quietly adopting a new social media policy in July 2015 that
explicitly prohibits
discriminatory speech and threatens termination for violations."
LVMPD’s public information officer wrote: “Robert Kinch voluntarily retired from LVMPD in July of 2016”
Beirich said of Kinch’s long tenure at the force after
his invocation of race war:
“Far too many Oath Keeper cops have been found in the ranks of police departments in recent years.”
She added:
“No one who is associated
with a group whose leader is now imprisoned
for seditious conspiracy,
and whose basic purpose is to
disregard government orders they disagree with,
should be employed by any police force.”
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'The American Civil Liberties Union of Idaho has filed an emergency motion calling on the Idaho Supreme Court to intervene in the state’s new public defense system, which the ACLU called a “disastrous step backward.”
The organization decried “chaotic instances” under the new statewide system in which
people were held in jail for weeks or months
without being able to speak to their state-assigned defense attorneys.
The ACLU called on the court to order the release of defendants who have not been able to reach their lawyers in a timely manner. "
"countless indigent defendants have been suffering — appearing at court without counsel, attempting over and over again to get anyone at SPD to tell them who was appointed to defend them, and worrying how they could possibly receive effective representation (or representation at all) on cases that have been
pending for months,” the filing adds."
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"Two-thirds of Americans oppose pardons for people convicted of crimes in the riot,
according to a Washington Post-University of Maryland poll conducted in early December, although
strong majorities of Republicans (60 percent)
and Trump voters (69 percent) approve of them. "
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/interactive/2025/jan-6-trump-pardons/
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