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

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 web.archive.org/…/disturbing-recordings-from-insi…

AbidanYre ,

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.

gibmiser ,

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?

radivojevic ,

They are just desperate to find a Liberal child molester

Passerby6497 ,

Which is funny to me, because I’ve had two coworkers in two different orgs catch a set of bracelets for enticement of a minor using a computer, and neither one was a liberal.

bolexforsoup ,

Jfc what do you do for a living lol

Passerby6497 ,

General IT work. One was remote user support, the other was remote MSP work. Lots of really cool people in the industry, but apparently some super sketch peeps.

thisbenzingring ,

At my last job, the CTO told me how he was promoted, and how his predecessor was in the national news. Used state owned computers to chat up a minor for months and then flew across the country to meet up and was arrested. Funny enough, he was not a cross dresser or liberal. Just a small town conservative older white guy that nobody suspected and everyone respected.

kescusay ,
@kescusay@lemmy.world avatar

That’s practically the checklist for child rapists:

☑ Older
☑ White
☑ Small town
☑ Conservative
☑ Well-respected

I’m guessing religious? Respected pillar of the church?

Yeah… These guys know how to present themselves in ways to avoid suspicion.

kescusay ,
@kescusay@lemmy.world avatar

Weirdly, same. Two different guys, both publicly pillars of the community. Both arrested for raping kids. In each case, they were just not at work one day, and our supervisors would just say, “So-and-so isn’t employed here anymore.”

Passerby6497 ,

That happened to me (kinda) the first time. I found out early because I got a a call about taking the on call phone (while already on call), and we were told not to talk about anything about it and he was totally coming back. But looking up the filing, we knew he wasn’t ever coming back.

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

And that’s because…

dailykos.com/…/-Republican-Sexual-Predators-Abuse…

53 pages, 1325 entries. So far.

billiam0202 ,

Kinda funny how the party that isn’t sexually repressive or regressive doesn’t prey on children. I wonder what inferences could be drawn between conservative rhetoric and the sheer number of conservatives busted for child abuse. Is it just the power imbalance?

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

I think there are many reasons. For one thing, they have the Christian vote locked up, and the sort of Christianity they preach is one where you can do any manner of atrocious things, ask forgiveness, be forgiven, then repeat the cycle. So many clergy that are even in prison for being sex offenders still get defended by their former parishioners.

Another is definitely a power imbalance thing, especially when there is a lot of evidence tying psychopathy to business success. Lacking any real moral code is fine when you’re a rich CEO. As Trump said, “when you’re wealthy, they let you do it.”

A third is that there are a lot of Republican voters who are so rabidly anti-left that they will literally elect a sex offender (Jim Jordan) over a Democrat.

I’m sure people can suggest others.

TimLovesTech ,
@TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social avatar

Well this is all part of the cult indoctrination that has made conspiracy theories a cornerstone of how they interact and interpret the world.

It’s going to take decades (or likely generations) to undo the damage done to the critical thinking of so much of this country. The fact that as you stated they would elect known sex offenders (Trump/Jim Jordon/Matt Gaetz) but still think it’s the “Radical Left” that is the demonic pedophiles is just cognitive dissonance at an alarming level.

Apytele ,

…and throw them into a pile of people with less qualms around torture and tell them to go ham.

Crazyslinkz ,

Torture doesn’t work anyways. People will say anything to stop the torture.

Apytele ,

Well they’re not doing it because they want answers, they’re doing it for fun.

WraithGear ,
@WraithGear@lemmy.world avatar

That and the suffering is the point.

ChocoboRocket ,

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.

retrospectology ,
@retrospectology@lemmy.world avatar

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.

sleen ,

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.

bolexforsoup ,

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

frezik ,

There’s a little more to prisoners beating up pedophiles. Many of them are themselves victims of child abuse. It’s revenge.

homesweethomeMrL ,

Isn’t there some other word for “ignoring laws”?

Rocketpoweredgorilla ,
@Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca avatar

Republican?

modifier ,

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.

cheese_greater ,

Jus another day -ending in -day

someguy3 ,

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.

octopus_ink ,

POLICE and MAGAS ignoring laws that are inconvenient for them??!! I’m shocked, SHOCKED I tell you.

SirDerpy ,

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.

BigMacHole ,

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

freshcow ,

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.

TheReturnOfPEB ,

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

frezik ,

You gotta make an effort to go up against child predators and manage to come out looking like the bad guy.

Condour75 ,

Not to make it political.

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