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CEO of SoftBank-backed neighborhood-watch app Banjo has hidden KKK past and helped gunman in synagogue shooting

over $120 million from backers including SoftBank for its app that aggregates social media posts to help police predict and respond to potential crimes in real-time.and court records obtained by OneZero, Patton was part of a white supremacist movement in central Tennessee as a teenager, which he described in court testimony as "the foot soldiers for groups like the Ku Klux Klan and the Aryan Nations.

In 1990, when Patton was 17, he drove a KKK member armed with a pistol to a Nashville synagogue. The KKK member shot out the window of the car, shattering the synagogue's street-facing glass. No one was killed in the shooting, but Patton was charged and pled guilty to "juvenile delinquency" in connection with the crime.

"We believe that the Blacks and the Jews are taking over America, and it's our job to take America back for the White race," Patton said at that trial, according to court documents. In a statement on Tuesday, Patton disavowed his past involvement with white supremacists. Patton, who identifies as a person of Jewish heritage, said he suffered abuse as a child that led him to run away from home and seek refuge in white nationalist groups until he joined the US Navy as a young adult.

"32 years ago I was a lost, scared, and vulnerable child. I won't go into detail, but the reasons I left home at such a young age are unfortunately not unique; I suffered abuse in every form," Patton said. "I did terrible things and said despicable and hateful things, including to my own Jewish mother, that today I find indefensibly wrong, and feel extreme remorse for. I have spent most of my adult lifetime working to make amends for this shameful period in my life.".

 

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