Former Georgia sheriff's deputy caught bragging about beating a Black man, calling it "sweet stress relief"
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A former Georgia Deputy has pleaded guilty to possessing unregistered firearms after the FBI launched an investigation into an extremist group. FBI agents discovered 28-year-old Cody Richard Griggers wrote in a group text that he manufactured and acquired illegal firearms and also expressed views that were consistent with racially motivated violent extremism.
Members in the group text, who called themselves "Shadow Moses" or "Shadmo," texted about militia-type prepping, including lengthy discussions of weapons, combat gear and survivalist techniques, according to court documents. In the group text, Griggers used racial and homophobic slurs and made frequent positive references to the Nazi Holocaust, the documents show.Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.