LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Racial justice advocates are raising concerns after an investigation by the Courier Journal, part of the USA TODAY Network, revealed two current Louisville sheriff’s officers were once members of a Ku Klux Klan faction of law enforcement officers.
The officers – one a captain and the other a deputy in the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office – were members of a KKK faction exposed 36 years ago in a civil rights lawsuit filed by a Black couple burned out of their home in a previously all-white neighborhood.
