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EPISODE · Feb 13, 2016 · 1H 2M

Ep.4: That's not a badge, it's a shield

from Reconnaissance · host Asa Mendelsohn and Fred Schmidt-Arenales

Maybe you’ve seen photographs of Oath Keepers perched on the tops of buildings in Ferguson, Missouri, wielding assault rifles. We saw these images in the fall of 2015, when we first learned about the Oath Keepers. Confused about what they were doing in Ferguson, we got in touch with John Karriman, the Spokesman for the Missouri chapter of the Oath Keepers. We met Karriman in a meeting room at the Hilton Garden Inn in Joplin, Missouri. We spoke about the militarization of United States police forces, outsider politics, and the participation of Oath Keepers in the demonstrations in Ferguson, Missouri in November 2014 and August 2015. Featuring sounds by John Niekrasz.

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Maybe you’ve seen photographs of Oath Keepers perched on the tops of buildings in Ferguson, Missouri, wielding assault rifles. We saw these images in the fall of 2015, when we first learned about the Oath Keepers. Confused about what they were doing in Ferguson, we got in touch with John Karriman, the Spokesman for the Missouri chapter of the Oath Keepers. We met Karriman in a meeting room at the Hilton Garden Inn in Joplin, Missouri. We spoke about the militarization of United States police forces, outsider politics, and the participation of Oath Keepers in the demonstrations in Ferguson, Missouri in November 2014 and August 2015. Featuring sounds by John Niekrasz.

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