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Welcome back to 30 series Chronicles Podcast.

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I am your host, Officer Indio.

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I was assigned to 30 series Specialized Unit in the Detroit Police Department.

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I handled high felony crimes and demonic possession.

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This is my story.

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Again, I'd like to start out and say thank you for your support.

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I've grown more listeners and people are reaching out and saying hey when is the next one coming

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out?

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I'm trying my best to stay on top of it.

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Life challenges gets in the way at times and it makes it harder.

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But the story that I'd like to get into is a little bit about my history with the Detroit

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Police Department.

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So here's a true story.

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When I graduated the academy I was assigned to the Southwest District in Detroit Southwest

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which is the third president on West Furner.

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I was partnered with field training officers for about 3-4 months and to be honest with

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you guys they said that I was too nice and I didn't cut the mustard because I was very

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nice to everybody I spoke to because I always felt and was raised to treat people with respect

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and dignity.

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The boy was I in for a rude awakening.

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So the field training officer at the time told my commanding officer that he felt that

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I wasn't ready for the streets and that I would cost him $2.

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And the story behind the $2 is that when an officer dies on a line of duty they deduct

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$2 from every officer that's in that department and they give that as a small donation to

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the family who just lost an officer.

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And I spoke with the commander and I just said hey this is how I was raised.

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I treat people with respect and I talked to them with respect and he said I'm going to

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give you one more chance and he partnered me with another officer and that officer was

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Hispanic.

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I almost was like a twin to me to be honest with you and next you know I'm in this different

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patrol unit and we're riding along down West Furner our first day together he lights a

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cigarette takes a long drive and goes just do what I tell you to do or do what I say

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to do when I tell you to do it and you should be fine.

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And then next you know hits the gas and we take off like 50-60 miles an hour he cuts

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a corner jumps a curve goes down this alley and I'm like what did you see and he's like

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don't worry about it to stay in the car and he slams the car breaks and we come to this

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long skid and he jumps out and I don't know whether to jump out because I don't want to

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sit there and disobey this guy because I just got partnered with him and from the passenger

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seat I see him grab this guy and start to plummet his ass and I'm like what the hell

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has just happened and he picks this guy up and he tosses him into the garbage can then

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closes the lid and he gets back into the car picks a cigarette that he had on dashboard

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flat where he left it takes another drag and I'm like what the fuck just happened and he

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was just like do try to sell cracked my wife when she dropped me off and then we carried

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on and from that point forward I was like wow because the commanders who told me he's

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gonna give me second chance said if you don't become more like this guy you're not you're

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going to be let go from the police department and that was my experience and I've been there

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ever since now not to say that I went in around kicking people's butts just because I wanted

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to because that wasn't in my MO that's not who I was but if I had to get down toe to

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toe I'd be the first one to take the badge off and go let's go and so to make a long

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story short the reason why I'm telling you this is because this really did happen and

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this is why I mean I went through a lot of trials and tribulations before I was inducted

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into 30 series and fast forward three years later we're still partners and we started

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investigating this drug dealer that's just bad and our SLIs which is source of information

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start telling us that he was involved in this killing of a mentally challenged person on

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the service drive in Southwest Detroit and everybody's telling us this but nobody's coming

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forward and that's the thing with the hood you need to have a witness willing to testify

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against that person but they were all afraid of him and they didn't want to go to court

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but I knew that he did it and was just proving it flash forward six months later there's

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a sting operation that's conducted on me by the Department of Justice and they put the

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same drug dealer give him some dirty money and he was trying to give it to us he was

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like you guys could take it you guys could take it and we're like we're not dirty cops

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we don't do that and along behold I was arrested because this drug dealer accused us or accused

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me of stealing his CD faceplate now if you remember back in the day there was faceplate

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said it went on your CD player and then you could push the button it would eject that

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faceplate I was arrested for a faceplate and a $15 personal check and the FBI and Department

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of Justice raided my house and service a search warrant looking for a detachable face and

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a $15 personal check and I was just blown away and we found this out through discovery

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and I was placed on departmental leave without pay until the investigation happened I went

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to my attorney and I was like listen I'm willing to take a lie detector test I'm willing to

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do whatever they need to do to prove that I've never done that and they refused to give

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me a polygraph test because they said it's not admissible in court so it would just

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be a waste of time and so I waited and waited and waited and during that time this criminal

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was arrested multiple times for violation of control substance act which is a felony

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multiple times and here's my take on it he had protection from internal affairs and

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the Department of Justice FBI so all that did was inflate it this guy's head and made

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him turn worse and we already knew he was bad because our SOIs would tell us about the

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murder they committed on the service drive our SOIs told us about the house that he

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said on fire of two elderly couple because they would report him selling drugs around

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the corner of rape, sodomy and everything else but again it's the hood and nobody wants

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to come forward and testify against this guy because now they feel like he's untouchable

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because now he's been arrested multiple times on violation of control substance act and

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he's never saw a day court and why didn't he see a day court because he was their star

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witness and the reason why I tell you this story was because I was put on departmental

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leave for a year and during that year I didn't have that much money because I didn't get

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paid much in the police department and again I didn't go enjoy the police department because

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I wanted to be rich I wanted to help people and during this time I was approached by a

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specialized unit called global risk and if you know what global risk is it's sort of

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a name under black water and they asked me if I would like to do some executive protection

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services out of the country and I said sure why not let me check on my attorney to see

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if I'm able to go because I don't want people to believe that next you know that I left

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the country to avoid prosecution and after speaking with my attorney I had the blessing

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to go and of course I'm going to go because it's the only kind of money I could try to

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salvage my life and I get put on the airport and I get flown out all the way to Tampico,

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Mexico. We arrive on Tampico, Mexico right before the whole Y2K thing if you remember

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that where all the computers were supposed to go down and this is going to be this complete

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chaos because the computers weren't set to go past 2000 and all this madness but I had

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no choice and I took it and so I arrived at Tampico with another person I call him EC

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Cole, Cole is his last name and he and I and another member arrived in the Tampico, Mexico's

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airstrip. We were then shuttled off to a private jet airport where we were blindfolded and

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then flown and then we were on this plane. I wouldn't say private because it was definitely

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luxury but it was a plane and we were on it for hours and I'm thinking to myself where

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the hell are they taking us? Now they had the blindfolds on us when we got on the plane

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and then once we were up in there we were able to take them off and we were in this plane

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ride for a long, long, long time and then we finally touched ground and we land in a field,

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a man-made field and because you could tell they just made this from dirt and we exit

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and we're like where the hell are we? And then we're met with some hummers and some

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black Range Rovers and they pick us up and they take us to an isolated place and I'm

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looking around and I'm like I'm not familiar with the landscape of this environment where

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the hell are we? So Christmas comes and goes and I'm still there in this desolate field

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with EG Col and we're like what the hell did we join? And a month into it we start noticing

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the same people arriving to this, our location and that location is unknown to us. All I

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know is that we're heavily armed, we have just about every weapon that you could think

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of, there's lots of us right? And I mean in our line there was probably about 15 of us

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that were heavily armed but this white Range Rover would come in and they were always cleared

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and a month into it one of the gentlemen from the White Range Rover finally acts as it and

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starts smoking a cigarette and I could tell that cigarettes were European because it was

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just different from what I'm used to in the States. Like you could light a marble red,

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I could tell it's marble red or you can light a new port and I could tell it's a new port.

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This cigarette just had a different distinct smell so I knew we had to be somewhere outside

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of our country obviously. And he and I walked eyes and he had a black suit and on the lapel

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was a red crucifix and he's seen me enough times on the detail where he was comfortable

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enough where I approached him, heavily armed and I asked him a question, I say, if you

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don't mind what are we doing here? And I was expecting him to go, well you guys are protecting

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an oil pipeline or some sort of thing like that but he was like, you don't know? And

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I said, no, I don't know. I just know that I took this job and you guys found me somehow

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and now I'm here. And he said, tomorrow around noon, look as far as you can see and you're

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going to see something. And I was like, okay, I don't know what he's supposed to see. And

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he takes a long drag of his cigarette and he goes, you'll just see. And he throws it

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on the dirt and turns it off and he gets back in the car and they pull off. And so I go

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to bed and my detail was early in the morning so if I, four in the morning rolls around

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and I'm up because now it's my turn to guard and our orders were weapons free, no one's

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allowed if they're not cleared and we would have to light the person up that was coming

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there. And some hours go by, I'm slipping on some coffee and I look at my watch and

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I go, oh, it's almost noon. So I turn my back to see where he had pointed. And this is true,

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ladies and gentlemen, I, we all see that are on the detail, a light, a white, bright light

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coming from the sky all the way down behind the mountain. And this light was absolutely

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gorgeous. It was heavenly. And we all just sort of looked at one another and was like,

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what is that? And nobody knew. And I remember raising my weapon and looking in the scope

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because it allowed me to see farther. And it was just radiant. And next, you know, it

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goes away. And we're like, what the hell was that? They're shooting lasers? Are we out

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here because there's UFOs? I mean, all kinds of questions started to get raised. A week

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later, the same white on beat comes by. And he stops and he's clear. Before he pushes

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on, he rolls the window down and he calls me over. And I go over there and I go, how

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are you doing, sir? You guys, did you see it? And I go, yeah, I think so. A little hesitant

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because I don't know if I was supposed to see what I was supposed to see or not. And

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I'm like, yeah, can I ask you one more question? And he's like, go ahead. I said, what is,

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what did I just see? I don't understand. I've never seen anything come that far and that

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high. And he looked at me and smiled. And he goes, come here, come a little closer.

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And I lean a little closer. I don't know if he's gonna punch me or kiss me. But I'm

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like, okay, let me just get ready for whatever's about to come my way. He takes his dragon

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and he goes, what if I told you that Jesus Christ had a son and he was here and my heart

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dropped in my asshole puckered. And I was like, what? And then he smiled, rolled the

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window up and he pulled off. And I looked back and EC E Cole was behind me. And Eric

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Cole, well, there's his name, right? Eric Cole. He was behind me. And the reason why

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I was kind of hesitant to say his name was because he took an operation in black water

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and he didn't make it. So I was trying to pay homage to his family. But I think this

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sort of is his legacy as well. And we sort of look one another and couldn't believe that

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we heard is the truth or just a lie. And then one of the other people that were on detail

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longer than we were were told us, you know, those are priests, right? And I'm like, is

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that what the red lapel who's the fix is on their blazer? It's like, yeah. I'm thinking

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why would a priest lie to me? I don't think he would lie. And then buddy just tell me

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what he was not supposed to tell me. And it just got really weird for me. And I was coming

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and approaching the end of my assignment. And then I was approached again by the same

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guy that found me just happened to be there and says, Hey, we'd like you to stick around

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a little longer. But by then I was sort of spooked. And I was like, no, I think it's time

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for me to go home. And he said, Okay, we understand. And so a couple of days later, I packed my

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stuff up and I flew back to Detroit. So I arrived back home in Detroit. My wife picks

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me up from the airport. And I tell her that what happened. And she's sort of quiet. And

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I'm like, what's wrong? She's like, you know, the guy that put those fake charges on you,

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he killed a little girl. And I was like, what? And he's like, she told me like, Yeah, he

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was rested with the other guy that he was with. Because he did a drive by. And then murdered

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this little girl. And that little girl's name was destiny Thomas. She was nine years old

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and she was playing in her room. When they did a drive by and they shot her in the head

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and killed her. And I was just sick to my stomach. Sick to the fact that I knew that

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this guy was bad. And he had this protection from internal affairs and Department of Justice

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that allowed him to continue to be who he was. And all they did was made him a supervillain

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because now he felt like he was untouchable. Because I was aware of the arrests that had

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happened. He was arrested on multiple times for violation of the Contrary Substance Act,

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which is a felony and also possession of a gun. And nothing ever came to light. And

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now this little girl, she she died unnecessarily because he should have never been on the streets.

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And WDIV News Detroit reached out to me wanted to do an interview because they wanted to

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know if this guy had federal protection. And I wanted to tell the truth. I'm like, absolutely.

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Let me tell you this whole thing. But I couldn't. My attorney would not allow me to speak because

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I was still being persecuted for something I know I didn't do. And long and behold,

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police trial finally happens for me. And we go in there. And I tell them I started the

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story. And immediately, sherry Oliver reinstates me full active duty and give the soft for

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his back pay. Because he saw through the bullshit of what was being spun around me.

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And so a week later, I have to report back to my precinct. And I go there and full uniform

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doesn't feel the same anymore, because I'm thinking, man, did I really just go through

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all that crap? And I went through it. I tell you, because the news is calling me a cancerous

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disease and all these other things and they threw me under the bus and still came out

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clean because I didn't do anything wrong. I was a good cop. And I didn't stay there too

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long. That's when I was approached by a sergeant saying that I was being reassigned. And that's

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when I was inducted into the 30 series. After all the stuff that I went through trials and

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tribulations, you can look this court case up and my heart goes out to destiny Thomas's

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family. I tried to put him away because I knew he was bad. I knew he was going to kill

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somebody else hurt somebody else. And I tried my best. And so I give you my condolences.

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Rest in peace. That city Thomas I tried. I'm sorry that happened to you. I'm a father

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now so I can't it breaks my heart and there's not a day that hasn't gone by that I've been

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one to tell the story. And there it is guys. The true story. Again, thank you for supporting

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my podcast. We'll dive deeper into the rabbit hole next week. God bless.