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'Disturbing' recordings from inside child-predator sting shows police, MAGA operatives ignoring laws

www.newschannel5.com 'Disturbing' recordings from inside child-predator sting shows police, MAGA operatives ignoring laws

What happens when you give people with bizarre conspiracy theories a gun and a badge? Secret recordings from inside the troubled Millersville Police Department provide a sobering answer

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.

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240717120405/https://www.newschannel5.com/news/newschannel-5-investigates/franklin-politics/disturbing-recordings-from-inside-child-predator-sting-shows-police-maga-operatives-ignoring-laws

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And start whacking some — you know, not to make it political — but whole leftist, corrupt, pedophile, this evil thing that's taken over Nashville,
Hmm, yes, it's the left that need to tone down the rhetoric.
- Let's see, start from the conclusion that liberals are satanic pedophiles. Use non-law enforcement to identify liberals who must also be pedophiles. Entrap them and use whatever means necessary to take these evil satanic pedophiles off the streets.
  Sure, what could go wrong?
  
  They are just desperate to find a Liberal child molester
  
  While I agree with you on how ridiculous everything this person does and believes in, I am not sure how I feel about the "entrapment" part
  While I don't know the specifics of the entrapment, anyone getting entrapped by pedophile bait should be exposed.
  It's absolutely ridiculous to believe pedophiles only exist in one political camp, especially with mountains of evidence showing anyone with wealth, power, influence, and status (politicians, police, religious leaders, authority figures) are more likely to be pedophiles. It seems that politically, more Republicans than Democrats are convicted pedophiles, but it's certainly not one or the other.
  "Hunting pedophiles" rings hollow when you truly believe that anyone who likes the letter R cannot be a pedophile.
- The FBI already investigate LEO across the country more than a decade ago and found that white supremacists were actively infiltrating our police force. Nothing has been done about this finding.
  White supremacists are “infiltrating” into police forces in the same way I infiltrate into my buddies house… when they specifically invite me over to hang out with them at their house and stand up and come over and hug me with a warm greeting when I show up.
  There is NO sense of infiltration here, rather we are looking at a fresh turd on a hot day (police), and there are flies all over it (white supremacists).

Holy fucking shit. This is BAD.
Two of the men were introduced to the group as "prayer warriors," who are part of a group that believes the battle against human trafficking is a battle against "demons."
Frightening that we have so many of these lunatics in the country right now, pushing and pulling one another further into psychotic delusions.
"And start whacking some — you know, not to make it political — but whole leftist, corrupt, pedophile, this evil thing that's taken over Nashville," Sawyer said.
The inability to see the difference between pedophiles and your political opponents suggests to me that you aren't of sound mind to vote, posses firearms, or be around children.
This shit should be investigated by the FBI. This police chief should be suspended during the investigation, as well as any officers who participated. This kind of bat-shit crazy thinking must not be tolerated in positions of great power over others. This is truly terrifying.
- This shit should be investigated by the FBI.
  The FBI already investigate LEO across the country more than a decade ago and found that white supremacists were actively infiltrating our police force. Nothing has been done about this finding.
  This is truly terrifying.
  Yes. It is.

I think the implications are pretty clear when you read between the lines of painting your political enemies as pedophiles. It's a very easy way to rile people up into a lynch mob. Here's the fascist playbook on this: target a minority (LGBTQ in particular) as some kind of deviant or predator, legitimize vigilante violence against this group, extend that to the next group or anyone who tries to defend the first group. Rinse and repeat until you are able to consolidate power and successfully kill or imprison your political enemies with impunity.

I hate people who make a big show of being "outraged" over child abuse as a way to cover for their own repugnant, violent beliefs and behaviors.
It's the same way some prisoner who murdered an entire family will beat or kill pedophiles in prison because he thinks he somehow redeems him on some level by having a "code". In reality he's still a massive piece of shit.
It's deeply self-serving exploitation of a very serious issue.
- For those who didn’t read the article, take note that one of the women involved ran for office as a Republican (obviously) and has been indicted for child abuse
- But it’s also very much like how homophobes watch gay porn. These people are deeply religious, and that fruit comes from the same tree that gives us the virulent homophobes talking about how “everyone has gay thoughts and it’s our duty as soldiers of Christ to ignore them because it’s the demons.” They think everyone else is just acting on the same impulses they have, and this is just them being weak to “demon influence.”
  These people are dangerous for kids just like they’re dangerous for everyone else.
- It is in human nature that most people prefer not to be demonised by their abhorrent character/morals. One way to 'break free' or cover them up, is to demonise another minority. Of course, there is a lot of examples from extreme to light.
  In context with your post, that minority does seem to be the most ostracised within the majority (even the non-offending) - to the situation that harassment and 'murder?' By most communities is tolerated.
  The situation can be observed everywhere, online and offline; and one point can be ruled out in some cases "murder is justified if the person was a pedophile (non-offending & offending)".
  This is one of the most extreme cases of improving your character at the cost of others. Harassment will remain harassment no matter what.
  
  It's not just about rehabilitating your own character. Most animals on this planet have a deep seated need to protect the young of their own species. Even to the point of adopting the young from other species sometimes. Pedophiles violate that protective instinct. That's why it's so hard to treat them fairly in the justice system. Where we can look at some one accused of an armed robbery and ask ourselves if the evidence meets the burden; we are already working backwards from trying not to kill an accused pedophile in a courtroom.
- It's the conservative way
- There's a little more to prisoners beating up pedophiles. Many of them are themselves victims of child abuse. It's revenge.
  
  Either way it's intellectually dishonest, hypocritical and inherently anti-justice.
  If I get robbed by someone, and then later go to prison and find out some random prisoner is a thief, I'm not morally entitled to attack that person (who is already serving their time).
  Prison justice is 100% bullshit.

You gotta make an effort to go up against child predators and manage to come out looking like the bad guy.
- Sounds like there was only 1 actual predator and dozens of people they're just baselessly accusing or being predators. And the 1 predator will easily get any potential charges laughed out of court if it ever even gets that far.

Isn’t there some other word for “ignoring laws”?
- Republican?
  
  That's the one, "being Republican."
- Police?
- "office involved oopsie"
- I think... I think it's one that begins at "Il" and ends with "legal". So it's legal after all! Nothing to see here, folks, move along.
- MAGA!

Back in 2018, Sawyer took a Tucson TV crew to a camp that he suggested might have been used for child sex trafficking.
In fact, police said it was just a camp used by homeless families.
The problem of unhoused people has been solved. Homeless are now pedophiles. Let them get killed in jail.

Isn't the term for this extrajudicial?
"And start whacking some — you know, not to make it political — but whole leftist, corrupt, pedophile, this evil thing that's taken over Nashville," Sawyer said.
There it is.
- you know, not to make it political
  Immediately makes it political

The best way to not be caught as a child predator is to pretend you are fighting them.

What happens when you give people with bizarre conspiracy theories a gun and a badge?
Well here in America of A, that's just Wednesday.
- Jus another day -ending in -day

NewsChannel 5 Investigates discovered hours and hours of videos where Shawn Taylor has appeared on podcasts associated with the widely discredited QAnon conspiracy theories.
Source: link in the OP article to part one of an eight part series.
Editorial: A local news station investigated, uncovered evidence, and appear to be interviewing those involved about what they find analyzing the evidence, then reporting in a series of lengthy articles full of direct quotes. True journalism lives.
- Are they CC'ing the DOJ? please tell me they are.
  
  Why would you want dissemination of truth in the hands of the department of "order over justice"? They've been fucking us for decades just like the other two branches of governance. These journalist are risking their lives for truth. I trust them much more than any politician.

POLICE and MAGAS ignoring laws that are inconvenient for them??!! I'm shocked, SHOCKED I tell you.
- They don't ignore it, they just make sure that they have a friendly judge say it wasn't illegal when they did it. Much more civilized that way.

Ok, from everything I know about republicans, there is undoubtedly a massive amount of projection going on. How long until we find out that him and 90% of his little renegade militia task force have CP on their devices? Maybe a a year? couple months?
- He's going to claim it was evidence from some minority he citizens-arrested

Your average law enforcement agent already has a worrying tendency to be a moron. Now imagine if that person is also a conspiracy theorist.

Just a little preview of a second Trump presidency...

The whole city government of Millersville, TN is a corrupt as fuck shit show. News channel 5 and specifically Phil Williams have been covering all the goings on for years if anyone wants to do a deep dive. Honestly the right thing to do at this point would be to fire all the commissioners, police, fire, literally everyone and one of the neighboring city's just absorb the town. Lived there 9 years and it's nothing but an embarrassment.
- ACAB

I don't care if Republicans are Kidnapping their Neighbors and Torturing them. The LEFT needs to COOL it with their Violence!

Did they do anything right...?
- I mean in the most general of sense going after pedos is good, they just immediately went wrong from there on out.
  
  The problem is that it seems like they probably just labeled people they don't like as pedos and went from there.
- Did they do anything right...?
  Thwy did lots of right things, but nothing was done correctly...

And now that private group and any police officers associated with them are all going to prison for lengthy sentences.
Right America?
Right?

Of course. Now investigate them and discover they are the predators. Projection is emerging as their core trait.

If every one of us takes out two of them ... they would be gone by the end of the week.

good journalism

Maybe I should invest in cyanide tablets for when Trump wins again.
- Or, hear me out:
  A radical leftist militia
- Makes sure to get vault tec banana flavor ones. They are highly recommended!
- You can buy cyanide without restrictions online in the USA. Shows up easy on all toxicology reports so if you were dumb enough to poison someone, you would be found pretty easy.
  
  ...I think they were talking about poisoning themselves?

Fucking clowns 🤡

These chucklefucks are so misguided and stupid, it boggles the mind.. also what a nasty narcissist Sandy their leader is, she probably blows them all. Yukkk. Just fucking be content and do some good work in your communities you fucking morons.

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