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SPECIAL REPORT-U.S. police trainers with far-right ties are teaching hundreds of cops

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By Reuters

By Julia Harte and Alexandra Ulmer

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May 6 (Reuters) - On social media, Richard Whitehead is a warrior for the American right. He has praised extremist groups. He has called for public executions of government officials he sees as disloyal to former President Donald Trump. In a post in 2020, he urged law enforcement officers to disobey COVID-19 public-health orders from tyrannical governors, adding: We are on the brink of civil war.

Whitehead also has a day job. He trains police officers around the United States.

The Idaho-based law enforcement consultant has taught at least 560 police officers and other public safety workers in 85 sessions in 12 states over the past four years, according to a Reuters analysis of public records from the departments that hired him. A Washington state training commission in 2015 temporarily banned Whitehead from advertising courses on its website because of instructional materials that referred to a turban-wearing police officer as a towel head and contained cartoons of women in bikinis, according to emails from the commission to Whitehead that were reviewed by Reuters. Other marketing literature touted Whiteheads deception detection technique that, among other things, teaches officers not to trust sexual-assault claimants if they use the word we in referring to themselves and their assailant.

The commission was responding to a student complaint citing offensive slurs and blatant misogyny. Whitehead said in an interview that the commission had given too much credence to one students opinion and caused him to lose business. Since then, he said, he has expanded the section of his course that caused that controversy, adding more pot-stirring material, including a slide that ridicules transgender people: Suspect is a gender-fluid assigned-male-at-birth wearing non-gender-specific clothing born Caucasian but identifies as a mountain panda. Whitehead said such barbs are intended to push back against pressures on law enforcement to espouse left-wing views on gender or race.

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