Robert Mercer had a volunteer police badge from a tiny NM police dept that featured hundreds of similar people, including celebrities, & people who committed horrid crimes. This article is a must read. Some excerpts following. /1
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Just a few of Robert Mercer's "colleagues" on the Lake Arthur, NM, police force. The volunteer dept was disbanded after Bloomberg exposed them last month. But hundreds of other PDs are doing the same thing this PD did. /2 
This way of providing anyone with a police badge was enabled by a law passed early in George W. Bush's presidency. Over the years we've had this unseen explosion in "volunteer police depts" happening right under our noses, giving lawbreakers a cover in many cases. /3
The guy who claims to have shot Bin Laden, along with Robert Mercer & his son-in-law & a "family aide," had police badges from this dept. Koch brothers hired people for security who had these badges. So did Elon Musk. /4
One of these fake cops tried to get a gun from a cop at the Las Vegas massacre in 2017. /5
While an individual police dept may suffer from being exposed as taking part in this scheme, 18,000 other police depts still engage in it. /end
