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GoLocalProv | News | Leaked Oath Keepers Membership List Reportedly Identifies 123 in RI, Including 1 in Law Enforcement
Sunday, September 11, 2022
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A database of the members of the Oath Keepers reveals that 123 Rhode Islanders reportedly have signed up for membership with the far proper group — a gaggle tied to planning and implementing that January 6, 2021 assault on the Capitol.
In keeping with an evaluation of the database, at the very least one of many 123 recognized as a resident of Rhode Island is a member of regulation enforcement, and one is a member of the U.S. Navy.
In distinction, Maine, a fellow New England state with solely a barely bigger inhabitants, though extra rural, has 215 who signed up for the Oath Keeper and, in keeping with the evaluation, has two elected officers tied to the group and one member of regulation enforcement and two first responders.
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Massachusetts reportedly has 550 and Connecticut has 476.
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The evaluation of the information was launched this week.
On September 27, 2021, DDoSecrets uploaded a cache of knowledge allegedly linked to the Oath Keepers that included chat data from the group’s personal chatroom hosted on Rocketchat from June 22 to June 26, 2020, and February 5 to September 19, 2021; emails from January 13 to September 19, 2021; and purported membership data for greater than 38,000 people.
The database consists of full names, addresses, e-mail addresses, telephone numbers, membership sort, and an area for feedback (steadily left empty). To establish these people within the Oath Keepers database who maintain delicate positions, Anti-Defamation League Heart on Extremism (COE) researchers in contrast the names discovered within the information with data present in public databases, media studies, and social media platforms
The ADL says you will need to know that, “Essential: a person’s inclusion within the Oath Keeper database isn’t proof that they had been or are nonetheless an Oath Keeper.”
It’s a database of those that signed up. “When reviewing this data, you must keep in mind the chance that the person misunderstood the character of the Oath Keepers,” mentioned the ADL.
As of August 8, the COE has recognized 373 people we imagine are at the moment serving in regulation enforcement companies throughout the nation. This quantity is much larger than any beforehand recognized variety of extremists inside regulation enforcement; for comparability, an ADL report launched in 2021 recognized 76 circumstances – 73 of which had been distinctive – wherein extremists had been discovered serving in regulation enforcement.
COE evaluation recognized 81 people throughout the nation who, as of August 8, 2022, are at the moment holding or working for public workplace in 2022.
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In keeping with the Southern Poverty Regulation Heart, (SPLC), which tracks hate and anti-government teams and consists of the Oath Keepers of their monitoring, “The group additionally has a protracted historical past of partaking in and selling their very own type of vigilantism by offering voluntary armed safety, not affiliated with any regulation enforcement entity, at numerous protests and venues. In 2014, members fashioned their very own patrol in Ferguson, Missouri, after the killing of an unarmed Black man in 2014, they usually offered safety to an Infowars reporter through the anniversary protest a 12 months later.”
“In 2015, Rhodes mentioned they’d defend infamous Kentucky clerk Kim Davis from arrest. Members patrolled the positioning of the “Unite the Proper” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017, and polling places in 2016 and 2020, allegedly to discourage and report voter fraud. Members have offered safety for occasions and people selling ‘Cease the Steal’ after the 2020 election, together with Roger Stone. In addition they provided safety to enterprise homeowners who defied COVID-19 public well being security measures,” provides SPLC.
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