Ex-Wife of Alleged Klansman Cop: Boss Made Us Join the KKK

Mediaite ^ | July 21 2014 | Tina Nguyen

[PoloSec]

The weird story of the Florida police station with two Klansmen officers just took a weirder-er turn: the ex-wife of one of the officers accused of joining the Ku Klux Klan has turned around, saying his former boss actually told him to go undercover in the first place.

Ann Hunnewell, the ex-wife of Officer George Hunnewell, was working as a secretary at the Fruitland Park Police Department when her boss approached her and her husband with an unusual assignment: as she told the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, he wanted the two of them to infiltrate the local Klan to investigate rumors of a third Fruitland cop joining the hate group. (That cop, James Elkins, resigned in 2009 after his membership came to light.)

According to Ann, though she and her husband never believed in the Klan ideology, they were sworn into the KKK. But just for work purposes. Via ABC:

“Once in the room, a pillow case was placed over their heads,” Ann Hunnewell said of the induction at the Elkins’ home alongside six to eight others. “As the ceremony began, they were led into the living room and told to kneel. After a reading, their pillow cases were removed from their heads and the ceremony was complete.”

Her boss at the time, James Isom, vehemently denies that he ever asked the Hunnewells to infiltrate the KKK. (Isom also resigned in 2010 as part of a plea deal following a misconduct investigation, which really makes the Fruitvale Park police department an office full of winners.)

[TurboZamboni]

Well, it is Fruitland Park Police Department

[Safetgiver]

Exactlty how does this membership require firing? It is, after all, a Democratic organization?

[denydenydeny]

Florida men.

[jmacusa]

That’s the Ku Klux Klan folks!! Courtesy of The Democart Party! Y’all come back now!

[gaijin]

I understand it was (or is now) a standing rule that Republicans CANNOT join the KKK.

I also heard part of the joining ceremony is they point a pistol or rile at your head as you are sworn in, or something.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

These days, the KKK is a collection of old Democrats and young losers. Ever since the 70s, when the Democratic political establishment stopped supporting it, it has become a husk of its former self. Meaningless. It has zero power or ability to influence anything other than as a straw man for the Liberal Left and a means for the Southern Poverty Law Center to keep donations flowing in. So who cares who joins it?

[Socon-Econ]

These days, the KKK is a collection of old Democrats and young losers. ...... .
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Good observation. The KKK probably has more FBI agents and Southern Poverty Law moles than actual members.

[caveat emptor]

A first cousin of mine claimed to have been a Klansman when we were in our 50s - 25 years ago, when I was back in Alabama for my father's funeral. Said the FBI forced him to quit by harassing and completely stressing out his wife.

Said both his father and father's father had been Klansmen and neither knew about the other until they joined. Was small, but had always been a tough guy, bragged about being rough on blacks when he had been deputy sheriff in west Georgia. The last I heard about him was from a niece of his who said he had had a stroke, was crippled, and had "mellowed".