Current Events > Kentucky State Police quote Hitler in training video

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https://manualredeye.com/90096/news/local/police-training-hitler-presentation/

One slide, titled Violence of Action, in addition to imploring officers to be ruthless killer[s], instructs troopers to have a mindset void of emotion and to meet violence with greater violence.
A line from Adolf Hitlers fascist and anti-Semitic manifesto, Mein Kampf, is featured in the slide: the very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.
The presentation also links to a Hitler page on Goodreads, a database of quotes and books.
Two other slides quoting Hitler bring his total to three, making him the most quoted person in the presentation.

The training materials are coming to light during a national discussion about systemic racism and the role of police in communities, a debate centered on Kentucky after Louisville Metro Police Department officers shot Breonna Taylor in March.

Since 2018, KSP troopers have committed at least 16 fatal shootings according to a Washington Post database of police shootings, the most of any police force in the state. Troopers were not wearing body cameras during any of the shootings.
During the same timeframe, the Louisville Metro Police Department, the largest police force in the state, killed 15 people, including Taylor.

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In a separate email, Lawson also stated that the presentation seems to be seven years old and appears to have been made by an instructor at the academy. It is not clear how long the presentation was used, or if it is still used. (Editors note: According to a statement received after publication from Morgan Hall, the Communications Director for the Kentucky Justice and Public Safety Cabinet, the presentation was not used after 2013.)

Said email isn't exactly great at defending it.



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