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.
, about four months before the Capitol riots. In the intelligence assessment, written in 2006, the FBI said some in law enforcement were volunteering “professional resources to white supremacist causes with which they sympathize.”
In 2020, an officer in Anniston, Alabama, was hired by a county sheriff’s department just a few years after the Southern Poverty Law Center posted a video of him speaking at a white nationalist League of the South meeting. “Unless your name ends up in an FBI wiretap” an officer will go undetected, said Fred Burton, a former special agent with the U.S. Diplomatic Security Service. “There are loopholes in the background investigative process.”Warren Williams got out of prison a few months after his fight with Driver, the prison guard. It was just before Christmas, and he arrived at his mother’s single-story brick house in Palatka, a small town in north Florida. It was cramped with his three little sisters.
Williams struggled with anxiety, and sometimes had violent outbursts. His mother called these episodes his “protective mode.” But he was home, where she could watch him. He’d been adhering to his probation requirements, and made his mandated meetings. In 1925, the KKK controlled Putnam County. A klansman named R.J. Hancock was elected sheriff and he helped unleash a reign of terror, where lynch mobs dominated civic life. To stop it, Florida’s governor threatened to declare martial law in 1926.
“I look at it this way brother. That was a direct ... attempted murder on him,” Newcomb said, referring to Williams’ biting Driver. “I don’t care how you look at it.” “But if you bury somebody in a graveyard over top of somebody that’s already been buried, it’s never going to be uncovered for a septic tank.”“One night we find him out there and I can walk right up, put him out of his misery,” Newcomb said.“What we need is Brother Thomas to be at work,” Newcomb said. “And when we do it when Thomas is at work, has an alibi.”Joseph Moore was a husband and father, a veteran and klansman.
During that investigation, Moore’s wife had grown suspicious of his activities. She demanded answers. Eventually, he told her — and her family — about his FBI work. It was a basic violation of the rules and the FBI fired him. He also signed a “blood oath,” part of which read, “I swear ... to be Klannish in all things, to accept the life of the Brotherhood of Service, to regenerate our country and to the white race and maintain the white blood and natural superiority with which God has enabled it.”On January 30, 2015, less than two years after Moore had signed his klan oath, the murder plot was in motion.
“It’d be quieter,” Newcomb said, “if we can grab him up, throw his ass in the car and take off with him somewhere. And we’ll just inject his happy ass with a bunch of insulin and let him start doing his floppin’.” “Sarge. I brought some insulin. Me and Brother Joe was talking, and if we can just kinda grab his ass up,” Newcomb said before Moran interrupted.“I mean, we’re going down to look at some things right now and see if a chance presents itself,” Newcomb said.
“Y’all don’t need to bother me today unless it’s very, very important. OK?” he scolded. His voice softened. “All right. I love you. Bye bye.”“What I was thinking, though, is if we could grab that package up and take him to the river, which is not that far from him,” Newcomb said. “Put his ass face down and give him a couple of shots, because I’ve got two completely full and they’re already ready to go.
After the klansmen brought Moore into the murder plot, however, the FBI widened the scope of the people he could record. The FBI had outfitted Moore’s SUV with recording devices that broadcast live to agents as they drove to Palatka. When he’d arrived at the mystery meeting there were unfamiliar faces in the room. They were federal domestic terrorism investigators.But first, they wanted to go to his house and take a photograph.
Driver was his last assignment. In their last discussion about Williams, Driver had said he’d stomp Williams’ “larynx closed” if he had the chance. Moore had said either he or someone he contracted with would finish the job.“We remembered how emotional this was for you and wanted — thought you might want some closure.”“Let us know what you think,” Moore said.“Oh, yes,” Driver said, relaxing into a chuckle.
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.
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