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The History of American Police and the Ku Klux Klan

Behind the Bastards

CHAPTER

Far Right Faches Are Just Not Funny

Many, if not most, of these early clansmen were former slave patrol members. There was a huge amount of vigilant violence directed against black people during this time. One military officer wrote that two men had killed a negro plus cut the ear off another in 18 66. The civil law is powerless to protect against such desperadoes.

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