🚨 Arkansas State Trooper Michael Austin Kennedy resigned after his wife filed 30+ screenshots of his white supremacist text messages in their divorce case including calling areas “N*GGERLAND” bragging about detained Hispanics as “trophies,” and pushing to repeal the 19th Amendment.
The messages to his wife Alana were packed with racial slurs against Black and Hispanic people, rants blaming “illegal immigrants” and Black people for traffic and crime, and extreme views like banning Muslims from America. One message read: “You don’t f*king hate them enough. The s*t that clogged up [their son’s] toilet is worth more to me than any of them.”
Kennedy also sent selfies posing with detained Hispanic individuals while on duty, calling them his “trophy.”
Alana amended her custody filing seeking sole custody. She stated his beliefs would “poison the minds of the children” and that the kids feared him because of his hate and irrational thoughts.
Kennedy resigned from the Arkansas State Police on May 15 shortly after the messages surfaced. In court papers he acknowledged the language but claimed it was “outdated” and didn’t reflect his values today after therapy and church guidance. Arkansas State Police reviewed his traffic stops and citations and said there was no indication his views affected his job performance.
A man sworn to protect and serve all citizens was privately holding this level of hatred.
What screening or accountability should law enforcement agencies have so white supremacist views like these don’t stay hidden until they surface in divorce court?
If someone has to take a cognitive exam four times within an 18-month period, they're not just looking for dementia...
they've already found it.
The fact that he's confusing it with an IQ test only shows that it's worsening.
Russian forces appear to be moving additional air defense systems to guard key rear-area supply routes from Ukrainian mid-range strike drones.
Seen here, Ukrainian mid-range strike drones destroying those air defense systems:
@pcroland2@mikenelson586 Nah, it was the cadet. Dude got CHEWED OUT afterwards, and every graduating class since has been explicitly told "Do not do this."
The city of Pocatello, Idaho adopts a flag for the first time.
The North American Vexillological Association (NAVA) lodges a formal protest against the atrocity.
i was reading something that used the “it’s not x - it’s y” ai format that was written long before ai writing was a thing, certainly written by a human, and it still pissed me off
Just a reminder that Elon destroyed America’s ability to prevent Ebola, then made a big show of admitting it was a mistake, and then he just never fixed it
@Schizointel@WeaponScientist And those remaining 8 losses you boil down to are HVAA targets that should never have gotten a scratch and some of which are literally irreplaceable.
@FloridaBartley@HillCountryHero@prestonstew_ The platform is old, the stuff ON the platform is not. The MQ-9s of today are not rocking the same packages as 20 years ago, same as F-15s.