Have mixed feelings. Legally, I can't imagine association being grounds for termination. If such association violated some ethical contract like an officer's sworn oath fine, but if we start firing, not hiring, and penalizing people for what groups they belong to, that's the beginning of the end and tantamount to fascism.
Don't have to like who people associate with, but we do have to tolerate it in a free society.
I was astonished that the guy was fired. Cops get fired for one thing: Illegal activity, and then only after there's clear, convincing, substantial evidence.
My guess the FBI caught red-handed him doing something like selling guns, drugs, or upsetting Stat's ideal self-image.
Well, you cannot uphold the Constitution or state laws if you made an oath of allegiance to the KKK, white people or any other dunderhead ideal in the KKK playbook. What, did the cop cross his fingers when he made his cop oath?
Another thing...the KKK was dismantled because of criminal activity...that doesn't mean they are (as one idiot said)
as harmless of the NAACP.
Then again, many Teapers are racist and will justify anything like the KKK and hate...that is what racists do!