Here’s a story about a couple of police officers that could stand to use some jail time of their own.

Ministers: Police Destroyed Klan Records

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Three ministers say authorities destroyed about 50 boxes of police files related to the fatal shooting of five people at an anti-Ku Klux Klan rally in Greensboro in 1979. [...]

The News & Record of Greensboro reports that the order came from a sergeant in the department’s Special Intelligence Unit. The ministers didn’t identify the officer who provided the information.

On Nov. 3, 1979, Klan and Nazi party members opened fire on rally participants. Five people were killed and 10 were injured. No one was convicted of the killings.