That sting was run back in May by Millersville Assistant Police Chief Shawn Taylor and a colorful cast of characters he assembled for the operation.
Among the revelations, the recordings show:
- Taylor did not involve other law enforcement agencies with more experience in such operations because of his unfounded conspiracy theories that prominent state officials are involved in child sex trafficking.
- Members of a private group posed online as minors — despite Millersville police being told by prosecutors that the sting would be legal only if sworn law enforcement officers were the ones doing the work.
- Shawn Taylor told one operative that investigators would be using “pre-signed search warrants,” which would likely be illegal, according to experts.
- Police arrested one suspect then, when he refused to talk to investigators, they turned him over to the private group for questioning.
- A Millersville detective boasted that the suspect was being taken to a jail where it was likely that he might not come out alive.
You’ve the wrong agency responsible for investigation, I think.
I’m talking about Truth and Justice the principles. I trust these journalists to serve us more effectively than any government agency despite their lack of authority.
So who would you suggest the journalists send the results of their investigation to?
We the People, just as they’ve been doing. No one else gives a fuck about our best interests. Why ask for some assholes to get involved. We’d do just fine taking care of this one on our own.
So what then? You just want to read about it and be mad? Nothing else? No arrests, no trials, no accountability?
Arrests and trials rarely lead to accountability, particularly for law enforcement. If you want order then call the government. If you want justice then pick up your rifle. No agency gives a fuck about us.
Okay cool. I’ll be over here and you can stand way over there.
You’ll sing a different song when I’m reinforcing the picket line that matters. It’s all good with neolibs until someone’s willing to do something meaningful.
If your something meaningful is political violence then no thank you. I’ve seen that, it’s nothing but tortured shop keepers and dead school children. No thank you.
Reinforcing a strike’s picket line is “political violence”?
You need history. Lots of history.
You need guns. Not idiots with guns like the cult. Wise and disciplined people of principle who agree they’d rather not use them. We don’t even need to fire a round. Call the bluff: “Kill us, then.”
They won’t. The people will come when we call. Or, it’ll end like Les Mis. Either way it’ll be done with dignity.