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Bigad Shaban

2 Dec, 5 tweets, 4 min read

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After spending months denying any wrongdoing, a police officer in California now admits he was part of a conspiracy to steal drugs/cash from drivers during traffic stops on HWY 101.

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2) Stolen drugs, crooked cops, & fake police reports -

This story has plenty of Hollywood-like plot lines & a tangled web of victims, so check out our website to find digital extras that make it easy to follow who is accused of doing what.

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3) So let’s talk about the conspiracy and what former Rohnert Park police officer Brendon Jacy Tatum has confessed to doing.

Several different law enforcement agencies are accused in the scheme.

As one of Tatum’s victims told me, “this is cloak and dagger sh*t.”

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4) Zeke Flatten, a former cop himself, tells us he was driving though southern Mendocino County when two totally different police officers pulled him over as part of a similar scheme - he says they stole his marijuana during a traffic stop.

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5) Zeke Flatten, the former cop who couldn’t believe other police officers would abuse their badge to steal from people, filed a complaint w/ the FBI.

That complaint is, in part, what led to the charges against Brendon Jacy Tatum & a second officer, Joseph Huffaker.
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#EXCLUSIVE:
1) Two San Francisco prosecutors just quit and tell us they've joined the effort to oust their former boss, District Attorney Chesa Boudin.

In their first tv interviews, they explain why they believe Boudin is making the city more dangerous.
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2) Before San Francisco prosecutor Brooke Jenkins quit last week, she regularly took on the city's most violent offenders.

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"I've seen decisions made in this office ... since Chesa took over, that shocked my conscience, and I've been a prosecutor for 30 years."

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18 Feb

1) When officials at the Oakley Union Elem. School district thought they were meeting privately, they used profanity to insult & threaten parents upset by the district's prolonged school closures.

Here's when they realized their mtg was being broadcast to the public.

"Uh, oh."

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2) Before she realized the public was listening in, School Board President Lisa Brizendine criticized parents who continue to be frustrated by the district's Covid-related school closures:

"They want to pick on us because they want their babysitters back."

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3) School Board Trustee Richie Masadas then appeared to link parents' frustration over close closures to drug use.

"My brother had a delivery service for medical marijuana and his clientele were parents of kids at school."

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