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Dec 2, 2024 18 tweets 7 min read Read on X
For five years, I have been covering what is unquestionably the biggest criminal justice scandal in American history.

Today it ended when the most corrupt cop in history took his life.

But it's not over.

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For 5 decades, police officer Roger Golubski sexually assaulted Black women and forced to give false testimony that he used to send Black men to prison while he ran a sex trafficking and drug cartel in Kansas City Kansas

theroot.com/a-criminal-inj…
The federal trial against Golubski was supposed to begin today.

He didn't show up

According to sources, Golubski ended his own life

kansascity.com/news/local/art…
While this may seem like an end... There are still too many unanswered questions, including:

What about the KCK officers who used "Golubski's Girls" to imprison Black men like Lamonte McIntyre and WATCHED Golubski sexually assault a woman AT THE POLICE STATION Image
What happens to Terra Moorehead, the District Attorney who teamed up with Golubski?

After serving as DA, she became a federal prosecutor in the justice department.

THey knew.

What about the judge who was sleeping with Morehead when she prosecuted those Black men?

What about the men?

theroot.com/evilest-white-…
What happens to Niko Quinn, who was forced to choose between testifying against that an innocent man killed her family member or losing her children? Image
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What happens to the woman who testified under oath that Golubski came to her house "once a week or once every two weeks" to sexually assault her after putting BOTH OF HER SONS IN PRISON.

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We know what happened to Golubski's partner, the cop who allegedly sat in the car while Golubski committed his weekly sexual assault:

Terry Ziegler became chief of police Image
What happens to the GOOD COPS, like the special agent who warned his superiors that Golubski was a racist and a sexual abuser Image
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What happened to the girls Golubski imprisoned at the apartment complex used for sex trafficking that was owned by the drug dealer he protected? Image
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And there is one other part that every one knows but no one seems to want to talk about.

Roger Golubski is probably a serial killer.

For years, there has been a string of unsolved homicides of Black women in Kansas City.

Many of them were last seen with Roger Golubski Image
Many of these women's bodies were dumped in the QUindaro Park neighborhood Golubski patrolled

I've actually mapped the route while walking it with the survivors Image
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I am in constant contact with the survivors.

But no one wants to tell their stories.

I know. For 4 years, I've met with your favorite networks and streaming services. I've talked to TV executives and news outlets. They DON'T CARE ABOUT THIS STORY
To them, it's just another story about a corrupt cop. They told me they aren't interested in "social justice" stories after "The George Floyd era."

To me, this is a story about the cops, prosecutors, judges and the SYSTEM that allowed it to happen.
It's about the Black women who WOULD NOT STOP until Golubski was brought to justice.

But no one wants to tell that story.

Even if they did, now that Golubski is dead, the story is over to them.

So I'm going to tell it myself.
This is why I'm building a ContrabandCamp.

Although we debut on Jan 20, 2025, you can subscribe for Cyber Monday for 60% off.

contrabandcamp.com/about
Jan 20 also happens to be the day we celebrate the man who said this: Image

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But du Sable was not enslaved when he moved to the mouth of the Chicago river in 1790.

So who TF was buying furs?
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There's a long history of sending military officers into Black cities to stop "crime."

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First of all, when people say it's "unconstitutional" to use the military against civilians, they're not EXACTLY wrong.

It's ILLEGAL.

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"Slavery was standard practice throughout earth..."

Let's start here.

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Like this guy: Image
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Whitewashing the uncomfortable parts of the past doesn't just affect Black stories. For example, you can't fully appreciate how a peanut farmer from Plains, GA became a beloved president unless you know TRUE Black History.

The unwhitewashed history of Jimmy Carter:

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Brett Favre is a descendant of Simon Favre, a famous“interpreter” who could speak multiple native languages.

Simon entered the family business at a young age and owned dozens of slaves and 100s of acres

But that wasn’t the family business.

The Favres stole land Image
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The Favres would move near a native tribe, earn their trust and convince native Americans that giving up their land & assimilating was in their best interest.

In exchange, they could keep some of the stolen land

Simon was BORN FOR THIS Image
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