“We was told we’d go to eternal damnation if we didn’t fight Jews and blacks,” he says. He dropped out in seventh grade to dedicate himself to the march toward racial Armageddon. In kindergarten, Johnson got in trouble for refusing to sit next to a black child. He was schooled in the doctrine of “Christian Identity,” which holds that the enslavement or extermination of all nonwhites will usher in the second coming of Christ. Starting at the age of five, he received two hours of daily Bible study from his dad.
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Johnson grew up in one of Kokomo’s best-known Klan families his dad even appeared in full robe and hood on The Jerry Springer Show in the ’90s. Today, infamous movement leaders like White Aryan Resistance founder Tom Metzger and alt-right figurehead Matt Heimbach live in the state, and Klan branches remain active in major cities. Two years later, half the city’s residents were Klan members. In 1923, Kokomo hosted the largest KKK rally in US history. Indiana has long been a hotbed of white supremacist activity. Listen to the latest episode of the Mother Jones Podcast: Subscribe using Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast app. He and his crew fanned out, swinging their padlocks at anyone within reach, shouting, “White power, you niggers!” Johnson didn’t see the kids who had trash-talked his friend, but on the edge of the grass he spotted something even more offensive-an African American man and a white woman sitting on a blanket holding hands.
Johnson, who had been awake for three days on an Adderall and whiskey bender, led his posse to a nearby park where a band was performing an Independence Day concert for a crowd of families. On his orders, he and several of his buddies tied bandannas to padlocks and stuffed them into their back pockets. It served him well as the leader of his Ku Klux Klan chapter in Kokomo, Indiana. On July 4, 2013, one of Shane Johnson’s pals pushed through the front door of his trailer and announced that “a bunch of black guys” had just “said some shit to him.” Johnson was small and lithe, tattooed from neck to toe with swastikas, and his throat was inked with a portrait of Jesus and the words “I AM NOT A JEW.” As a teenager, he’d earned the nickname “Punchy” for his willingness to make up for his stature with an even shorter temper.
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