KKK members who pulled guns on LGBTQ protesters weren’t arrested because cops didn’t see them: police

After two Ku Klux Klan members confronted LGBTQ supporters with violent threats and handguns at a protest in Corbin, Ky. earlier this month, police took their bullets but not their guns — and did not arrest the card-carrying klansmen. Hodge told Raw Story he contacted the FBI “to make sure we didn’t miss anything,” and the federal agency “concurred there wasn’t any charges.” But Timothy Beam, chief division counsel at the FBI’s Louisville office, said in an email to Raw Story that the FBI “would not take a position on whether state law has been violated,” adding that “Corbin PD or the local commonwealth attorney would be in a better position to make that determination. RELATED ARTICLE: KKK members pulled guns on pro-LGBTQ protesters — but Kentucky officers let them go free: police docs Osborne said that even before the Corbin police referred the matter to the FBI, he reached out to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Kentucky, and spoke with Assistant U.S. Attorney Zach Dembo, whose LinkedIn profile describes him as a “civil rights prosecutor.” Prior to his assignment to the Eastern District, Dembo worked as a legislative director and policy adviser to Gov. In the video, one of the self-identified KKK members named Clayton Segebart can be seen arguing with James Hensley, an LGBTQ supporter, as others chant, “Gay rights, human rights.” Kenneth W. Hutton, a former Corbin public works employee who is standing to Segebart’s right, can be seen pulling a card out of his wallet and handing it to Segebart. Facebook screengrab “If we don’t back down, people I care about will be killed, frankly,” Osborne told Raw Story.