Oath Keepers leader is a former Las Vegas police detective who welcomed 'race war': Report [View all]

Source: The Independent

Tuesday 07 January 2025 01:22 GMT


A man allegedly in control of a Utah-based spinoff of the far-right anti-government Oath Keepers group is reportedly a former Las Vegas police detective who once spoke approvingly of a coming “race war” and “revolution” inside the U.S. Robert “Bobby” Kinch has been listed as state leader of Oath Keepers Utah, and is president of a company called Northbridge Patriots LLC, which has held the trademarks for Oath Keepers USA since May 2023, The Guardian reports.

The information about Kinch emerged after an unnamed individual spent years infiltrating far-right groups throughout the Western U.S., including visiting Kinch’s home in the Utah mountains. The Distributed Denial of Secrets whistleblower coalition provided chat logs and other files to the outlet.

The infiltrator reportedly photographed plaques commemorating Kinch’s police service, a membership certificate for the Utah Oath Keepers listing Kinch as “state leader,” and an Ernest Hemingway quote on a plaque reading, “Certainly there is no hunting like the hunting of man and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never really care for anything else thereafter.”

The individual also claimed Kinch had a stockpile of weapons and shelf-stable food. The Independent has contacted Kinch for comment. Kinch was a longtime officer in the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.

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