Nebraska: Trooper ‘sorry’ for KKK ties

— Omaha World-Herald reports: “In his first public statements, a former Nebraska state trooper said Wednesday that he made a “stupid” mistake six years ago when he joined a white supremacy group affiliated with the Ku Klux Klan.”
— “Although that mistake cost Robert Henderson his job with the State Patrol, he and his attorney have asked a state panel to not revoke his state certification to work for other law enforcement agencies in Nebraska.”
— “Attorney Tom Stine said Henderson did not make an idle mistake when he joined the Knights Party, a group affiliated with the KKK, in 2004. The group’s tenets of “white power” were clearly visible on its Web site, Stine said, and Henderson has previously told investigators he knew that joining the organization would ‘degrade’ the reputation of the State Patrol.”