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After two Ku Klux Klan members confronted LGBTQ supporters with violent threats and handguns at a protest in Corbin, Ky. earlier this month, police took their bullets but not their guns — and did not arrest the card-carrying klansmen.

The reason, according to a Corbin police Detective Robbie Hodge: Police officers could not press charges because they didn’t witness the entire incident firsthand.

Hodge told Raw Story he contacted the FBI “to make sure we didn’t miss anything,” and the federal agency “concurred there wasn’t any charges.” ...

Two purported Ku Klux Klan members allegedly terrorized a pro-LGBTQ rally in Kentucky, and one pulled a handgun on protesters — but law enforcement officers on the scene did not arrest them, according to local police documents obtained by Raw Story through an open records request.

One of the men who pulled a KKK card from his wallet, identified in the police report as 44-year-old Kenneth W. Hutton, had recently worked for the city government in Corbin, Ky., a local official confirmed Thursday.

“He quit about a month ago,” Corbin City Manager Marlon Sams told Raw Story on Thursday....