The ties of white supremacist movements to local, state, and national law enforcement is a serious issue that requires more serious investigation than it actually is. Grand Knighthawk: Infiltrating the KKK (April 27 on Hulu) is capable of undertaking. However, in a small-scale portrait of the insidious danger posed by this relationship, he says of poor Black Americans—never in a secret audio recording of one of his subjects—that fully expose the ugliness of modern racists, “They will have sex with their sisters and rat on their own brothers and mothers.”
The speaker in question is David “Sergeant” Moran, who, along with his Caucasian friends Charles Newcomb and Thomas Driver, planned to kidnap and murder a Black man named Warren Williams in 2015. The reason for this lynching was retaliation. All three conspirators were colleagues at Florida’s Reception and Medical Center, where Driver had sparked an argument with inmate Williams (who was in a fracas with police instigated by mental illness) by blowing smoke in his face. During the melee that followed, Williams not only defeated Driver, but bit him. Later, in a conversation with friends, Driver admits that he wanted Williams to be assassinated because “it will make me feel better not to try anyone again” and that would be enough payback to force him into post-bite medical treatment. tests left him to “worry about having to grab this shit from this filthy monkey”.
Three friends who were colleagues in the Ku Klux Klan, where Newcomb served as Exalted Cyclops (i.e., district governor), later devised a plan to kill Williams. To carry out their orders, they enlisted the aid of Grand Knighthawk, the unit’s chief security officer, whose duties ranged from ceremonially burning the cross to acting as a fierce enforcer. In this case, that man was Joe Moore, a former army veteran and successful sniper who had worked with the KKK for four years and was committed to doing the job for them.
The only thing was that Moore had ulterior motives for accepting the job: He was working undercover for the FBI.
a feature-length study by the Associated Press, ABC News, and George Stephanopoulos; Grand Knighthawk: Infiltrating the KKK A look at the inner workings of the age-old racist organization, all from Moore’s perspective. Moore, a husband of four children who had previously served undercover for the FBI after his military service, was approached by a member of the joint terrorism task force while teaching at a shooting range in 2013. active-duty military and police personnel. The agent believed that, given Moore’s background and skills, he would be an ideal agent to once again place himself in the KKK of north Florida. And Moore — guided by a lifelong urge to protect others, stemming from her childhood victimization at the hands of sexual abusers — quickly accepted the offer.
Moore rose quickly through the ranks of the KKK, whose members were impressed by his military background—but, as Moore admits, he inflated his reputation as a trained killer to make him more appealing to hateful coworkers. Within a few short years, he achieved the position of Grand Knighthawk, and in 2015 that made him the troublemaker Newcomb, Moran and Driver turned to when he became the target of Williams’ ire. Newcomb was the ringleader of the trio, and in one of the many recordings captured by Moore (he was wearing a wire for parts of this operation) he conveys his strategy of pulling Williams off the road and into a car and injecting him. lethal doses of insulin and “let him start making his floppin.”
The fact that there are racists in America and that they are throwing up inconsiderately callous and disgusting things about minorities in their private lives is not a bombshell. Yet it remains encouraging to hear such vulnerable ideas and Grand Knighthawk: Infiltrating the KKKThe most disgusting moments of ‘s usually involve the material on tape. It’s chilling to listen to Newcomb and Moran’s unpleasant conversations with Moore during a surveillance mission to control Williams’ home—which is complicated by the pursuit of an undercover police car that discourages them from taking action. Things get even uglier when the FBI chooses to stage Williams’ death, with a fake photo of his corpse, Moore seems to have finished his job so Moore can use that to get the KKK villains to admit what this execution was. they wanted. “I love it! That bastard pissed himself,” Moran’s jovial response to the snapshot. “Well done!” Driver and Newcomb were similarly enthusiastic and impressed; These are expressions of happiness that ultimately determine their legal fate after the tapes are played in court.
Associated Press reporter (and consulting producer) Jason Dearen offers both insightful narration and contextual commentary on Florida’s allegedly corrupt prison system, which serves as the state’s largest employer with more than 80,000 inmates housed in more than 150 facilities. What Grand Knighthawk: Infiltrating the KKK The needs are more than just the big picture about white supremacist involvement in American law enforcement, as Moore’s story – albeit crazy in its own right – is indeed a symptom of a more frightening and more pervasive problem. It’s understandable that this Hulu special is relatively limited in scope, but it still leaves one yearning for more about the depth and breadth of this pressing issue.
Keeping the focus narrow results in some illuminating micro-insights, such as the way the KKK uses hard-coded abbreviations to greet – for example, AYAK (“Are you a Klansman?”) and AKIA (“I am a Klansman”). and greet members in a way that confirms their legitimacy. These details, and the peeking material Moore obtained on his marks, help balance it out. Grand Knighthawk: Infiltrating the KKKexaggerated exaggerated audio cues that force overly dramatic images and things to make things more disturbing. But there is no need for such coercion when in the end, as someone said, “the facts of this case are outrageous.”