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That sting was run back in May by Millersville Assistant Police Chief Shawn Taylor and a colorful cast of characters he assembled for the operation.

Among the revelations, the recordings show:

  • Taylor did not involve other law enforcement agencies with more experience in such operations because of his unfounded conspiracy theories that prominent state officials are involved in child sex trafficking.
  • Members of a private group posed online as minors — despite Millersville police being told by prosecutors that the sting would be legal only if sworn law enforcement officers were the ones doing the work.
  • Shawn Taylor told one operative that investigators would be using "pre-signed search warrants," which would likely be illegal, according to experts.
  • Police arrested one suspect then, when he refused to talk to investigators, they turned him over to the private group for questioning.
  • A Millersville detective boasted that the suspect was being taken to a jail where it was likely that he might not come out alive.

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240717120405/https://www.newschannel5.com/news/newschannel-5-investigates/franklin-politics/disturbing-recordings-from-inside-child-predator-sting-shows-police-maga-operatives-ignoring-laws

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

I know I'm just stating the obvious, but Police Chief Shawn Taylor is definitely a pedophile and he has absolutely molested multiple children in his life.

Nobody is this unhinged about pedophiles and not projecting.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago

Of course. Now investigate them and discover they are the predators. Projection is emerging as their core trait.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

good journalism

[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 months ago

The best way to not be caught as a child predator is to pretend you are fighting them.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Maybe I should invest in cyanide tablets for when Trump wins again.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Makes sure to get vault tec banana flavor ones. They are highly recommended!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You can buy cyanide without restrictions online in the USA. Shows up easy on all toxicology reports so if you were dumb enough to poison someone, you would be found pretty easy.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

...I think they were talking about poisoning themselves?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago

Or, hear me out:

A radical leftist militia

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The whole city government of Millersville, TN is a corrupt as fuck shit show. News channel 5 and specifically Phil Williams have been covering all the goings on for years if anyone wants to do a deep dive. Honestly the right thing to do at this point would be to fire all the commissioners, police, fire, literally everyone and one of the neighboring city's just absorb the town. Lived there 9 years and it's nothing but an embarrassment.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago
[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Did they do anything right...?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Did they do anything right...?

Thwy did lots of right things, but nothing was done correctly...

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I mean in the most general of sense going after pedos is good, they just immediately went wrong from there on out.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The problem is that it seems like they probably just labeled people they don't like as pedos and went from there.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The way I see it is that pedos are the perfect thing for the childlike, immature psyche of republicans to focus on and unify around as the evil baddies they have to fight since an actual pedophile is one of the closest things to a disney evil villain who is evil just because.

Republicans really can’t emotionally handle problems in life being more nuanced and complex than a secret cabal of pedophiles that have to be righteously hunted down in witch-hunts. That is satisfying, that gets Republican’s to sit up and pay attention because they get to hate without feeling guilty about it.

Republicans actually can’t handle the world being complex and nuanced, they can’t handle solutions not involving them rolling out a vile hatred for people, so fighting pedophilia is one of the few places left republicans can retreat to, gripping onto their pathetically simplified and hateful world views.

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