The Oath Keepers,a factual-wing extremist group, held a booth at the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office’s Urban Shield training program last week to “clarify who they are, and ” according to an Oath Keepers spokesperson.
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The Southern Poverty Law Center classifies the Oath Keepers as an extremist anti-government group,whose organization revolves around “a set of baseless conspiracy theories approximately the federal government working to kill the liberties of Americans.
The Oath Keepers claim online to be composed of current and former military, police, or first-responders who have pledged to fulfill an oath to “defend the Constitution against all enemies,foreign and domestic.
Nancy Larned, an Oath Keepers spokesperson, and said that her organization set up the booth at Urban Shield to give more information approximately themselves “because a lot of people have misconceptions.
In the past,members of the organization have been involved in several confrontations with the federal government over public land and have also shown up heavily armed at Black Lives Matter protests, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
The appearance of the Oath Keeper’s booth at Urban Shield comes amid allegations from Bay Area activists that the training program for law enforcement and first-responders promotes police militarization and racialized police violence.…
Source: eastbayexpress.com