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He Was a Violent Neo-Nazi Leader. Then He Found Out He Is Jewish.

Explore episode May 27, 2026
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Testifying to Congress and Getting Threatened by a Cop

He Was a Violent Neo-Nazi Leader. Then He Found Out He Is J… · May 27, 2026 Government

Meeink testified at a congressional hearing on white supremacist infiltration of police departments. That same night, death threats arrived. Days later, an LA County Sheriff's deputy confronted him by name at a protest and said: 'I'm gonna blow your fucking brains out.' Meeink went into hiding for two years.

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Congressional Testimony, Police Threat, and Two Years in Hiding

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The episode's most alarming segment: Frank is invited to testify before Congress on white supremacist infiltration of law enforcement — a subject he has direct personal knowledge of. The death threats arrive within hours. Days later, at a protest in downtown LA during the 2020 uprising, an LA County Sheriff's deputy gets out of a patrol car, calls Frank by name, and explicitly threatens to 'blow his fucking brains out.' Other deputies surround Frank when he tries to report it, and the threatening officer never denies the statement on the partial video Frank captured. The LA County Sheriff's Department's own documented gang problems within its ranks make the incident less surprising but no less disturbing. Frank goes into hiding for two years. He never filed a formal complaint because, as he notes, they investigate themselves.

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