{"id":210476,"date":"2022-02-08T15:57:39","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T15:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/leaked-chats-show-current-troops-and-veterans-joined-a-white-supremacist-group-offering-martial-arts-and-ability-to-clear-rooms"},"modified":"2022-02-08T15:57:39","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T15:57:39","slug":"leaked-chats-show-current-troops-and-veterans-joined-a-white-supremacist-group-offering-martial-arts-and-ability-to-clear-rooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/leaked-chats-show-current-troops-and-veterans-joined-a-white-supremacist-group-offering-martial-arts-and-ability-to-clear-rooms","title":{"rendered":"Leaked chats show current troops and veterans joined a white supremacist group, offering &#8216;martial arts&#8217; and ability to &#8216;clear rooms&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the right-wing group Patriot Front march across Memorial Bridge in front of the Lincoln Memorial on December 04, 2021 in Washington, DC. Win McNamee\/Getty Images Leaked chat records from a white supremacist group show many applicants claim to have current or former ties to the US military. The records were posted online by Unicorn Riot, a media collective known for reporting on extremist groups. Applicants with military backgrounds said they could offer skills like &#8220;Marine martial arts&#8221; and the ability to &#8220;clear rooms.&#8221; Leaked chat records and membership applications show roughly one in five people who applied to join the white supremacist group Patriot Front claimed to have current or former ties to the US military, according to documents published by Unicorn Riot and analyzed by the Southern Poverty Law Center . SPLC, a civil rights nonprofit that tracks hate groups, found that 18 of the 87 people who applied said they were either in the military or<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Records show that 18 of 87 people who applied to join Patriot Front said they had current or former ties to the US military.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[314,97,42],"class_list":["post-210476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-army","tag-military","tag-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}