DC PD’s Head Of Homeland Security Intelligence Allegedly Warned Proud Boys Leader Cops Were Looking For Him
from the good(?)-guys-with-guns??? dept
Cops keep letting us know who they really are. They can’t seem to help themselves.
They demand to be viewed as good guys, but far too often, they align themselves with fascists, racists, and opportunistic politicians who align themselves with fascists and racists.
When the latest presidential election delivered a loss to Donald Trump, his supporters chose to embrace the conspiracy theories their main man in office embraced. It was rigged. Votes were stolen. Everyone other than his supporters were wrong, perhaps so wrong they could be arrested.
The opposite was true. While these supporters embraced theories espoused by 4chan users and played the part of the choir being preached to, the rest of the nation moved on. The supporters did not. They raided a federal building and to remove the word “peaceful” from the phrase “peaceful transition of power.”
Many of those are now facing federal charges. One of the instrumental groups in the failed insurrection was the Proud Boys, a self-described group of “Western chauvinists,” something that sounds much more socially acceptable than the phrase “white supremacists.”
But that’s what the Proud Boys are. They claim they aren’t because they don’t specifically prohibit non-whites from joining their pathetic group. They also pointed to their leader — Enrique Tarrio — as evidence of their non-racism. But ever since their inception, the group has chosen to support and advocate for the most racist of politically aspirational racists. And the group apparently simply couldn’t handle having their Racist-in-Chief being voted out of office.
But even before the Proud Boys conspired to assist in a raid of the Capitol building during the certification of election votes, it was still awful. Members of the group routinely ganged up on anyone they perceived to be against whatever the fuck it is that Proud Boys actually believe. (For all we know, it may just have been someone approaching a living, breathing woman during daylight hours.)
The Proud Boys are a joke. Members should feel embarrassed just to be associated with each other. But the members of this group have managed to turn individual insecurity to group insecurity by normalizing being absurd on main into a feature, rather than a bug. This group’s proprietary blend of incels and whites with bad haircuts had repeatedly failed to generate any sympathy for the group, much less its poorly stated goals.
But somehow cops still like the Proud Boys. And that says a lot about cops. Law enforcement in this nation transformed from a limited power circumscribed by the nascent Constitution to a rogue squad bent on retrieving free labor for plantation owners in less than 100 years. Law enforcement has never recovered from this perversion of its original intent. Cops hate free thinkers, liberals, non-whites, and people who think all of these groups should be treated with more respect.
That leads us to this: an indictment [PDF] brought against DC Metro Lieutenant Shane Lamond. As a member of the DC police force, Lamond was expected to protect federal targets from criminals and terrorists. As the head of the Metro PD’s Homeland Security Intelligence Branch, Lt. Lamond was expected to do even more. He was heading the bulwark against terrorists, foreign interference, and any other criminal activities that posed a threat to federal agencies and the physical property housing them.
Lt. Lamond was given a lot of power and a lot of trust. But he abused all of that to side with a bunch of guys who can’t talk to women and/or compose a coherent mission statement. Instead of protecting the nation via his position with the DC police force, he chose to inform alleged criminals that cops were looking for them, apparently in hopes of helping lawbreakers elude law enforcement.
This wasn’t a one-off thing. This indictment may only detail one obstruction of justice, but it also shows Lt. Lamond was buddying up with matching-hat-wearing weirdos for reasons he’ll soon have to explain to a judge.
Beginning in July 2019 and continuing to at least January 2021, LAMOND and Tarrio were in regular contact regarding the Proud Boys” planned activites in the District of Columbia. They communicated at least 500 times using cloud-based messaging services, including Google Voice, Apple Messages, and Telegram, an encrypted messaging application.
“Tarrio” is Enrique Tarrio, the presumed leader of this band of sexless, violent misfits. In this case, Tarrio was allegedly warned by Lt. Lamond law enforcement was seeking to arrest him for an alleged hate crime, the burning of a Black Lives Matters banner stolen from a DC church.
This warning didn’t work. Tarrio was arrested and convicted. As part of his plea deal, Tarrio (a longtime federal informant with a history of illicit drug dealing) agreed to stay out of Washington, D.C. As history shows, he violated this agreement and is now facing federal charges for his participation in a conspiracy (with his proudest boys) to raid the Capitol building.
So, this horrible person who (allegedly) played a part in stealing and burning a Black Lives Matter banner and who (allegedly) participated in a conspiracy to overthrow the part of the government tasked with certifying election results was apparently (and — I’ll say it now so I don’t get sued by Lt. Lamond — allegedly) someone the Metro PD official sitting at the head of Homeland Security Intelligence felt was worth his time and attention, not to mention his (alleged) leaking of sensitive law enforcement info in hopes of assisting Tarrio in evading arrest.
For example, on July 8, 2020, using Telegram, LAMOND notified Tarrio that a bar in Washington, D.C. frequented by Tarrio and members of Proud Boys might be subject to sanctions after an Alcohol and Beverage Control violation was reported. LAMOND informed Tarrio, “I’m working on finding out what sanctions might be imposed. As soon as I find out I will let you know.”
On November, 2020, vote counts revealed that resident Joseph R. Biden had won the 2020 Presidential Election, and several news organizations began reporting this fact.
At 1:08 pm on November, 2020, LAMOND texted Tarrio, “Hey brother,sad, sad news today. You all panning anything?” Tarrio responded, “Yep.”
At 2:10 p.m.on November 7, 2020,using Telegram, LAMOND told Tarrio that “Need to switch to encrypted. Alerts are being sent to LE that [Social Media Website] accounts belonging to your people are talking about mobilizing and ‘taking back the county. [sic] Getting people spun up. Just giving you a heads up.”
At 2:14 pm. on November 7, 2020, using Telegram, Tarrio sent LAMOND an audio message.
At 2:16 p.m. on November 7, 2020, using Telegram, LAMOND told Tarrio, “Got your voice messages. Just giving you a heads up. Please keep this between you and me.”
On November 13, 2020, Tarrio came to Washington, D.C. to attend a rally scheduled for the next day to contest the results of the 2020 Presidential Election.
Earlier on November 13, 2020, LAMOND texted Tarrio, “I’m staying in D.C. tonight. Let me know if you go out and I may stop by.”
After Tarrio later told LAMOND that he was heading to a bar in Washington, D.C., frequented by members of the Proud Boys, LAMOND responded, “Check telegram.”
Around the same time, on Telegram, LAMOND told Tarrio, “Just giving you a heads up there’s a lot of attention at [the bar] right now. If it doesn’t calm down they are going to shut [the bar] dow[n].” A short time later, LAMOND told Tarrio through Telegram, “Just wanted to let you know. I heard[the District of Columbia Alcoholic Beverage Regulation Administration] already on scene.”
On December 11, 2020, Tarrio and other members of the Proud Boys were in Washington, D.C., in advance of a rally planned for December 12, 2020, to protest the results of the 2020 Presidential Election. That evening, Tarrio, using Telegram, informed LAMOND that Tarrio and members of the Proud Boys were “going to have a briefing tonight at 1030 at the national mall” and that they were marching from a hotel in Washington, D.C. LAMOND responded, using Telegram, “Copy. Antifa should be staying up at BLM Plaza. Do you want me to let our uniformed officers know that or keep it to myself? I will be around all night in case: anything kicks off.”
So, pretty much BFFs: the would-be insurrectionist and the DC supervisor directly in charge of preventing bad things from happening to Washington, D.C.
That’s the meat of the indictment. These guys were about as close as internet friends can be, something that culminated with Lt. Lamond warning Tarrio there was a warrant out for his arrest in the BLM flag-burning case.
This is all very fucked up. It had been obvious for months, if not years, the Proud Boys encouraged lawlessness to forward their extremely peculiar theories about state and federal governance. No cop ever should have sided with them, much less handed over confidential info. But that’s how cops are. They love the lawbreakers that align themselves with the (again) peculiar worldview far too many cops have: that might means right and, more importantly, white means right. That Tarrio wasn’t technically white makes no difference. He and his boys were committing acts and pushing propaganda that made it clear the group would throw its support behind any white bigot willing to give them an indirect pat on the head during national press conferences.
We don’t get the police we want. We probably don’t even get the cops we deserve. We just get the cops that embrace the worst parts of our society along with the powerlessness to do anything about it. This cop may ultimately be convicted, but he’s just one of thousands of bad apples currently roaming free: guys with guns and power but no moral compass, who are convinced this nation’s domestic terrorists are just good people trying to preserve the American way of life.
Filed Under: dc police, enrique tarrio, homeland security, insurrection, january 6th, proud boys, shane lamond
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You disdain cops in the same manner that some disdain free-thinkers, liberals and non-whites. Guilty by label. Thank god Masnick can write like a reporter without injecting personal bias all over the page. Elsewise I wouldn’t have any further draw to this site.
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Oh heavens, your readership means everything, don’t go!
“Cop” isn’t just a label.
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“Elsewise I wouldn’t have any further draw to this site.”
Oh no! Are you disappointed, or very disappointed with us?
Please continue to tell the owners of this site how much you would withdraw your patronage if they keep writing stuff you don’t like. It’s a tactic that works so well.
You compare law enforcement to free thinkers?
In what way are these two even remotely similar? .. They are both human I assume – guess that is one at least.
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Well. look at how freely they think up new ‘laws’ when they want to arrest someone?
With messages like that it seems pretty clear who and what he was interested in protecting and serving, and it was neither the government nor public he was being paid by.
Stereotyping much?
Just as a reminder: there were more cops involved with defending the Capitol than there were involved with attacking it.
Calling them all of the same cloth is not exactly encouraging those who stick out their neck for democracy.
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It’s true that not all cops are bad. This is why the correct phrase is “one bad apple spoils the barrel”. It’s not “a few bad apples won’t hurt anything”. Allowing one bad apple harms the entire department.
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It’s also important to remember that the police have had absolutely no problem using the same philosophy when it comes to approaching their work. They’ll gladly assume the worst of colored and minority communities and justify their heavy-handed roughhousing based on stereotypes.
Sure, it sucks for them when witnesses aren’t forthcoming with information, or people generally regard them these days with distrust and apprehension – but a lot of that damage was self-inflicted.
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If they stood up forwhat isright
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“Calling them all of the same cloth”
If it’s doesn’t apply to a particular cop, then that’s great.
But as a group, in America (and increasingly in other Western democracies), all cops are bastards until proved otherwise. I don’t care about how many fucking kittens they save.
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Replacing a few words in that diatribe makes for an appalling example of the racist attitude you find detestable.
May I remind you that the exact problem with racial profiling in policing and sentencing is to to judge not a person’s acts but the statistics of the group he is a part of, thus taking out any motivation or incentive to prove oneself better than one’s peers?
I repeat: more police defended the Capitol against the attacks on it and on the democratic structures of the U.S. republic than did attack them; and roundly blaming the defenders for the acts of the attackers is not doing them justice and is doing exactly what you pretend to decry.
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Strange, I wasn’t aware that ‘cop’ was a race or otherwise a personal characteristic beyond a person’s choice and control.
If someone is born a particular race, sex, gender or sexual orientation they didn’t choose to do so and don’t exactly have the option to just decide not to be that, so holding them accountable for what others in the same category do would be unreasonable.
When it comes to a profession on the other hand that is something people choose to become a member of and they can leave at any time, so if ‘looking the other way’ and ‘having something in your eye’ becomes the default response to corruption and misconduct amongst it’s members then it is not unreasonable to judge them accordingly.
If police have a terrible reputation then it’s on the ‘good cops among them to do something about it, showing the public that the ‘bad apples’ really are just a minority percentage and won’t be covered for and defended by the ‘good cops’, however that it’s gotten this bad is a pretty good sign that they haven’t been doing that and while it may suck for the individual officers that actually do fall into the ‘good cop’ category as a profession they’ve earned their reputation by their inaction.
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So if every cop is a bad cop by definition since they chose to become a cop, where are good cops supposed to come from?
You don’t do yourself and the world a favor by refusing to judge people by their individual merits rather than their shirt color.
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So if every cop is a bad cop by definition since they chose to become a cop, where are good cops supposed to come from?
Those that join for the right reasons and when confronted by corruption and misconduct don’t look the other way and instead speak up and if they can push to punish and/or oust those engaging in said corruption/misconduct. Good cops do exist, however any cop who provides cover and support for bad cops, even if only by their silence is not one of them.
You don’t do yourself and the world a favor by refusing to judge people by their individual merits rather than their shirt color.
If someone knowingly joined a group that had a reputation for racism and never seemed to have a comment about what their fellow members said or did do you have to wait for them to personally let slip a racist slur before judging them for their choice of company?
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You say this as though the opinion of the average person on the street is singlehandedly responsible for the lack of good cops. Good cops would have survived in the police system had that same system not developed a reputation for weeding out cops who call out the corrupt, trigger-happy or racist behavior of other cops.
It’s not as though any of this is news. The fact that police forces are grounds for incubating politically incorrect groupthink and actions has been known for quite some time, never mind all the infractions that would get a normal citizen like you or me the entire shelf of books thrown at us.
Do you think a cop judges people by their individual merits, or bases his actions on an assumption that every US citizen is secretly armed and out to kill him? If you believe it’s anything but the latter I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you…
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You can repeat all you want, but nobody is actually disputing that individual cops can distinguish themselves in certain situations but as a whole most of them can only be seen as bad apples. It’s just simply that when everyone in a group behaves a certain way except for a few exceptions, those few exceptions just have to take it or leave it.
TL;DR: If everyone around you are a goat fucker and you choose to fuck goats to blend in, you are also a goat fucker.
They’ve been doing that the whole time. Since before either of us were born, and the entire time we were growing up. The only difference between then and now is that everybody’s carrying cameras now, so the white moderates have a harder time pretending it’s not happening.