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hunter

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24. It's still very possible it was racism.

Reply to Egalitarian Thug (Reply #14)

Thu Feb 27, 2014, 12:07 PM

Feb 2014

There's a large indigenous Mexican immigrant community in the area who speak neither English or Spanish and wouldn't know where to turn when confronted by rotten cops.

Those would be the "poorer Hispanics" who were being targeted by these crooks.

It wouldn't surprise me if there's worse to be found -- undocumented labor and drug trafficking, etc..

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California town shaken as police officers arrested [View all] Jesus Malverde Feb 2014 OP

California towns are always shaking for one reason or another jberryhill Feb 2014 #1

wow. El_Johns Feb 2014 #2

what kind of morons thing cops are above this? nt Paolo123 Feb 2014 #3

The same morons that have owned and run King City for generations. n/t Egalitarian Thug Feb 2014 #5

Fluff piece on a problem that has gone on for decades there. n/t Egalitarian Thug Feb 2014 #4

Really sounds like it from the article. Jesus Malverde Feb 2014 #6

King City is infamous, has been for decades. It's one of the dirty little secrets that California Egalitarian Thug Feb 2014 #7

Sure sounds like it jsr Feb 2014 #21

California has its rotten places. hunter Feb 2014 #8

Remind me again, who are the REAL illegals? alp227 Feb 2014 #9

They should keep going to the next town..... DeSwiss Feb 2014 #10

No racism in the USA. Move on, nothing to see here, except maybe Coyotl Feb 2014 #11

In the case of King City, it has nothing to do with racism, that's just how the story's Egalitarian Thug Feb 2014 #14

can you provide more examples of the corruption in King City? qwertyq Feb 2014 #22

not just King City by any means reddread Feb 2014 #23

It's still very possible it was racism. hunter Feb 2014 #24

indigenous immigrants? n/t reddread Feb 2014 #25

Mestizos. bravenak Feb 2014 #26

Indigenous Americans. hunter Feb 2014 #27

indigent victims n/t reddread Feb 2014 #28

Question for anyone who may know: PotatoChip Feb 2014 #12

Depends on jurisdiction, in most cases the LOA that takes it, gets it. Egalitarian Thug Feb 2014 #15

If I understand correctly PotatoChip Feb 2014 #16

You're welcome and I know, right? It isn't just one step, officially of course. Egalitarian Thug Feb 2014 #17

No, not at all reddread Feb 2014 #20

It depends on how they seize it, where they seize it, etc. JoeyT Feb 2014 #18

Wow. I've stopped there everytime I drove up north. A food/gas stop area... tofuandbeer Feb 2014 #13

Message auto-removed Name removed Feb 2014 #19

Looks like these officers operated a pretty lucrative racket: throwing the RICO statutes at those indepat Feb 2014 #29

Police, courts and Tow Companies do this across the nation. It's a National Scam gerogie2 Feb 2014 #30