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Frazier Glenn Miller, the white supremacist who murdered three people at two Jewish centers in Kansas City on Sunday night, is still described as a friendly man with conviction whose ideas weren't really all that unusual, according to his apparently awful friends and neighbors.

In a pretty viscerally disturbing interview with a local news station KSPR, those who knew Miller described him rather generously. ABC affiliate KSPR reporter Mary Moloney introduced a segment about Cross by saying that "many people here in Marionville say he would talk about white supremacy in gas stations and restaurants. But people here didn't think anything of it!" Which isn't really a reaction to boast about. And it goes downhill from there.

According to those who know him, Frazier isn't really all that bad. One person said "he spoke his opinion, which you can respect that at least." Another spoke of him as you might an honest relative, saying "you may not like his opinion, but at least you knew it. You knew exactly where you stood with him."

But one of his biggest defenders also happens to be Marionville Mayor Dan Clevenger, who described him as "always nice and friendly," a man who "respected his elders, greatly, as long as they were the same color as him [chuckle]."