A Louisiana detective who was exposed as a KKK member in a shocking picture was fired Wednesday and all his cases are being reviewed, officials said.
The Lake Arthur Town Council unanimously voted to fire Raymond Mott from the police department after a picture surfaced this week of Mott wearing the KKK crest and giving the Nazi salute at an anti-immigration rally, local media reported.
“Nowadays, all over the United States cops are getting killed and cops are killing others,” said Ace Beverly of the Better Lake Arthur foundation, according to KATC. “Me, myself, personally, I don’t want that to happen right here in my own hometown.”
Police Chief Ray Marcantel turned to the town council for help after Mott told the Jennings Daily News, “I refuse to resign.” Mott initially claimed he went to the rally in Troy, N.C. in August 2014 working undercover for the FBI but later admitted he’d been lying.
“I have been baptized — after the events and have the documents to prove that — and a short while after my baptism, I have become an ordained minister and started a charity-based ministry in Lake Arthur,” Mott said.
He threatened to sue the town, claiming termination guidelines weren’t followed properly.
Mott went under the name Christian Knight on Facebook, sources told the Daily News.
But Marcantel said Mott passed “thorough” background checks, including with three other police departments where Mott worked.
Mott went on to become the officer with the most arrests in the Lake Arthur department.
And complaints about his conduct began flowing in within 30 days of his start date, District Attorney Michael Cassidy said.
Cassidy’s office is reviewing all of those cases. Charges will likely be dropped in cases where the only evidence is Mott’s narrative.
“In order to prove a case beyond a reasonable doubt, I’d need evidence to corroborate anything he saw or said,” Cassidy told the Daily News.
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