I read the whole thing and while it’s troubling, it also lines up with what I’ve believed to be true about the police for a long time.

The more troubling stuff is honestly the people outside of law enforcement involved. This stood out, for example.

But there was also an Ohio OB-GYN on the national board of directors — he used to work for the Cleveland Clinic, I discovered, and now led a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group. The doctor was joined at board meetings by a city prosecutor in Utah, an ex-city council member and, Williams was later told, a sergeant with an Illinois sheriff’s department. (The doctor did not respond to requests for comment. He has since left his post with the UnitedHealth subsidiary, a spokesperson for the company said.)

Also, personal opinion, I think this is part of why Trump wants to disband the FBI. I think he knows the police are in his pocket and that he just wants to give the investigatory powers of the FBI over to local police to they can harass, violently abuse, and imprison the populace with impunity. (Not that they don’t already, but even worse than it currently is)

This is why “defunding the police” mattered even though nobody liked hearing it. They’ve been the US’s best armed and best funded street gang for decades. We’re really entering mafioso territory here, where you’ll have local cops asking for protection money “Real shame if something happened to this land” style.

The rot is deep. Leftists need to be organizing, but not for violence, rather for taking care of one another in response to the violence we all may soon be subjected to. Do not organize in cleartext channels, always use open source well-audited encrypted platforms such as XMPP, Matrix/Element, Wire, SimpleX, or Signal.

If we ever disbanded the police, we would need a new force of some type fully prepared to police the old police, who will not let go of their power over the populace willingly. If they even get a whiff of losing their jobs for being authoritarian shitbags, they will clear out every precinct of weaponry, armor, and other gear and immediately become an occupying force terrorizing our populace. The police themselves are, ironically, the biggest reason we would need police after disbanding the police because they’re already addicted to a self-narrative of being “the real victims” and treating the US populace as the enemy.

I almost forgot a really important part of the story!

But Williams wants to let his former comrades know “a f****t is doing this to them.” He thinks his story could be his most effective weapon.

I do think it’s beautifully emasculating that they were so easily tricked by a gay man, and I do hope it drives them up the fucking walls.

Not all heroes wear capes