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Kamala Harris Revokes Innocent Cop's License | Betrayal, Corrupt Cops, & Life In Prison
22 May 2025
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the biggest police scandals in bay area history kamala harris she revokes my license for life i didn't do anything wrong she starts crying and goes that's what the fbi told me to say oh so what what happened with the case so i'm back out on patrol now i'm and i'm busy i'm going you know i'm working patrol graveyard weekend graves uh friday saturday sunday from 6 p.m to 6 30 in the morning and i go into work one night it's a friday night walk in the back door of work and uh
Well, I come in and I notice that something was odd. Like the chief was still walking around. This was on a Friday at like 6 o'clock. He's gone at 3 o'clock, right? And I noticed he was there walking around at 6 o'clock. I was like, that guy's never here past 3 o'clock on a Friday. So this is kind of weird. Like what's going on? So we go into lineup.
And as soon as we clear lineup, I load up my car, fire up the MDC, the terminal, the computer. And right out the gate, I got a call all the way across town for a, like, obstruction in the roadway. So I'm like, okay. So I drive out there, you know, 15 minutes to get out there. I get out there. Of course, it was a bogus call.
They were just trying to get me away from the station so they could set up. So there's nothing out there, of course, right? So I clear the call, you know, 10-8. and immediately get a phone call on my cell phone. And that's, and a lieutenant's asking me, Hey, can you come back to the station? Need to talk to you real quick. Sure. Okay. So I drive back to the station.
I walk in the back door and I'm greeted by like, I think it was a total ended up with like 14 guys, agents from the department of justice, internal affairs, people from the DA's office, DA investigators. And I'm jumped out, you know, like, Breeze, motherfucker, get on the ground. Whoa, whoa, what is going on? I'm totally shocked. What is happening? So they pat me down. They take all my gear away.
They pat me down multiple times. Are you sure you don't have a backup gun on you? No, you got your knife. They already had my knife, my my duty belt and everything. First, they throw me in an interview room, never, never Mirandized me, never gave me the Leibarger reading, which is a thing in California that they have to, it's like a Miranda, but for cops.
And they never did either of those things and immediately go into questioning me, telling me, oh, we just, we just want to ask you about some things about how you know this, this private investigator. And I'm like, okay. I tell my friends and family this all the time. If you get stopped by law enforcement, just, I want an attorney. Don't ever,
ever talk to them without an attorney because their only goal is to try to hem you up. They're not trying to help you. Right. And I always tell people that, like, just ask for an attorney. Don't say anything. What do I do? The complete opposite. Right. So I sit there and I give a two and a half hour statement and I basically tell them how I know this guy.
And, you know, we used to be the private investigator. He and I were cops together in Antioch years ago. And, uh, anyway, um, long story short, I, I, I basically tell them what they want to know. And they're asking me, you know, a bunch of questions.
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