City of Anniston Fires Police Officer For Membership In Hate Group

By Hatewatch Staff

The City of Anniston, Alabama, announced this afternoon that it will fire a city police officer following revelations about his membership with the white nationalist hate group League of the South (LOS) first published here at Hatewatch.

Josh Doggrell via dixienet.org

Doggrell spoke at the 2013 LOS national conference which was captured on video. A second Anniston police officer, Lt. Wayne Brown attended a LOS conference in 2013. Brown will be retiring from the Anniston PD, according to WIAT 42.

The City of Anniston also announced that it will revise its personnel policy. When first approached by the Southern Poverty Law Center about the officers, Anniston City Manager Brian Johnson called the LOS a “civic club,” and said there was little the city could do. Fortunately, that looks set to change.

Two Anniston, Alabama, police officers, Josh Doggrell and Wayne Brown, attended a 2013 conference held by the neo-Confederate group the League of the South. Doggrell spoke at the conference — clips of which appear to the right.