Good news! At least one law enforcement agency is working with
members of the community they’re sworn to protect. Just one problem. The
local folks these police worked with were Nazis.
According to The Guardian, California Highway Patrol officers worked with Neo Nazis in Sacramento during the lead up to a ‘white nationalist’ event.
The goal: to identify activists with anti-racist beliefs who might attempt to interrupt the bigoted snowflakes’ special day.
Snip:
“It
is shocking and really angering to see the level of collusion and the
amount to which the police covered up for the Nazis,” said Yvette
Felarca, a Berkeley teacher and anti-fascist organizer charged with assault and rioting
after participating in the June 2016 Sacramento rally, where she said
she was stabbed and bludgeoned in the head. “The people who were
victimized by the Nazis were then victimized by the police and the
district attorneys.”
In an email sent to The
Guardian, The Chief Deputy Attorney responsible for prosecuting against
the anti-fascist activists arrested during the Sacramento rally, states
that there was no bias on the part of the police. But what’s this? Ho
ho! The Chief Deputy Attorney’s statement is contradicted, by documents
obtained by Felarca’s attorney: the documents illustrate numerous
examples of CHP officers cozying up to members of a bunch of racists,
working directly with members of the Traditionalist Workers Party–the
group that planned the rally back in 2016.
The Guardian’s coverage
of this case makes for ugly, compelling reading, laying out, as the
article mentions, in closing, “…patterns of acknowledged and
unacknowledged overlaps between the interest of ultra-right nationalist
organizations and the police and prosecutors’ offices.”
