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In August 2014, Mott—who had left his job at another police department and had yet to joint the Lake Arthur force—and another Louisiana man named Trey Gordon took a trip to "an anti-immigration" rally held by the Loyal White Knights of the KKK in North Carolina. When they got there, Mott said, the Klansmen "just spewed hate.""One guy from Georgia stood up and bragged about driving through a black area in his pickup truck and when he would pass a black person yell racial slurs and then smack them with a baseball bat," Mott said. James Moore, their Imperial Klud—which is their Christian pastor—was openly calling for people to go on a 'Knight Ride' to 'bash faggots.'"Mott filled out an application for membership with the Loyal White Knights and paid his dues the day of the rally, "but not to join them but to destroy them," he said. "I don't fit in with that crowd."Mott and Gordon went back to Louisiana, ostensibly as Klansmen—but in reality, the two men say, they were stamping out the group, who Mott describes as "maybe 30 rednecks who go out and manipulate people saying they are a Christian organization but they are just common thugs who hate."Weeks later, Mott approached the FBI and began supplying them "everything I knew about the Klan—names, codes, everything." FBI sources confirmed Mott's account.Related: How a Disgraced KKK Leader Became a Key FBI Operative in a Bizarre Radioactive Ray Gun Case
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In March 2015, Mott was hired by the Lake Arthur Police Department. Officials told VICE that Mott had gone through a full background check, which was spotless. Several officials confirmed they had known of Mott's attendance at the Klan rally the same month he was hired and had a copy of the scandalous picture."This photo has been in the hands of my supervisor for nearly six months, yet no one is willing to step up and tell the truth about that," Mott said.Mott describes himself as a by-the-book officer who followed the letter of the law, someone who didn't shy away from even arresting other cops if they broke the law. To hear Mott tell it, that ruffled a lot of feathers."This photo has been in the hands of my supervisor for nearly six months, yet no one is willing to step up and tell the truth about that." –Raymond Mott
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