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.
NewsChannel 5 Investigates discovered hours and hours of videos where Shawn Taylor has appeared on podcasts associated with the widely discredited QAnon conspiracy theories.
Source: link in the OP article to part one of an eight part series.
Editorial: A local news station investigated, uncovered evidence, and appear to be interviewing those involved about what they find analyzing the evidence, then reporting in a series of lengthy articles full of direct quotes. True journalism lives.
Are they CC’ing the DOJ? please tell me they are.
Why would you want dissemination of truth in the hands of the department of “order over justice”? They’ve been fucking us for decades just like the other two branches of governance. These journalist are risking their lives for truth. I trust them much more than any politician.
That’s why it’s a CC, not just letting them sit on the information themselves. If we know they have the information, and they know we know, then pressure to conduct a criminal investigation vastly increases.
You’ve the wrong agency responsible for investigation, I think.
I’m talking about Truth and Justice the principles. I trust these journalists to serve us more effectively than any government agency despite their lack of authority.
So who would you suggest the journalists send the results of their investigation to?
We the People, just as they’ve been doing. No one else gives a fuck about our best interests. Why ask for some assholes to get involved. We’d do just fine taking care of this one on our own.
So what then? You just want to read about it and be mad? Nothing else? No arrests, no trials, no accountability?
And start whacking some — you know, not to make it political — but whole leftist, corrupt, pedophile, this evil thing that’s taken over Nashville,
Hmm, yes, it’s the left that need to tone down the rhetoric.
Let’s see, start from the conclusion that liberals are satanic pedophiles. Use non-law enforcement to identify liberals who must also be pedophiles. Entrap them and use whatever means necessary to take these evil satanic pedophiles off the streets.
Sure, what could go wrong?
While I agree with you on how ridiculous everything this person does and believes in, I am not sure how I feel about the “entrapment” part
While I don’t know the specifics of the entrapment, anyone getting entrapped by pedophile bait should be exposed.
It’s absolutely ridiculous to believe pedophiles only exist in one political camp, especially with mountains of evidence showing anyone with wealth, power, influence, and status (politicians, police, religious leaders, authority figures) are more likely to be pedophiles. It seems that politically, more Republicans than Democrats are convicted pedophiles, but it’s certainly not one or the other.
“Hunting pedophiles” rings hollow when you truly believe that anyone who likes the letter R cannot be a pedophile.
I’m not 100% sure it’s being used correctly here, but entrapment in general is when a police officer convinces or coerces a person into committing a crime, and then arresting them for that crime. So, if a police office is standing somewhere and you walk up to them and ask to buy drugs, they can arrest you for that. But if they are like “hey man, want to buy some drugs? Come on, it’s only $10. You know what, for you, first time is free. Just take them”, and then you take them, that is entrapment.
The reason entrapment is problematic is because it’s hard to tell if you would have committed a crime, had the officer not pushed you into it. Maybe you were just feeling pressured and wanted the uncomfortable situation to go away, etc.
As for not exposing entrapped people, there is this moral dilemma in general that often gets dramaticized in cop shows and movies, which is that the person we know is guilty gets away on a technicality or procedural issue. And at first blush that looks like a flaw. But actually it’s more like the lesser evil of a bad situation. Because what we don’t want is police using powers that erode the freedoms of the innocent people, like breaking into people’s homes and going through their stuff, or wire tapping, or torture, or whatever. Things we don’t want police to do to innocent people.
If doing these things were “frowned upon”, but we still used the information we gained from it anyway, then it would be a viable police strategy. It’s a cost of doing business, but it gets the job done. Even if a single officer got fired for it, they could choose to matryr themselves to do the bad thing and get the guy. But we don’t want cops doing these things, because anything they do against a person they think might be guilty is something they could be doing to a person that’s actually innocent. So we kinda have to make the rule be that any information, no matter how good, that was gotten in a bad way becomes bad information that we all agree never to use. Because that’s the only way to make sure the police don’t want to do the bad things.
It may let some guilty people go free, when the police screw up, but in theory it protects all of us against an escalating police state.
…and throw them into a pile of people with less qualms around torture and tell them to go ham.
Torture doesn’t work anyways. People will say anything to stop the torture.
That and the suffering is the point.
Well they’re not doing it because they want answers, they’re doing it for fun.
They are just desperate to find a Liberal child molester
Which is funny to me, because I’ve had two coworkers in two different orgs catch a set of bracelets for enticement of a minor using a computer, and neither one was a liberal.
Weirdly, same. Two different guys, both publicly pillars of the community. Both arrested for raping kids. In each case, they were just not at work one day, and our supervisors would just say, “So-and-so isn’t employed here anymore.”
That happened to me (kinda) the first time. I found out early because I got a a call about taking the on call phone (while already on call), and we were told not to talk about anything about it and he was totally coming back. But looking up the filing, we knew he wasn’t ever coming back.
Jfc what do you do for a living lol
General IT work. One was remote user support, the other was remote MSP work. Lots of really cool people in the industry, but apparently some super sketch peeps.
At my last job, the CTO told me how he was promoted, and how his predecessor was in the national news. Used state owned computers to chat up a minor for months and then flew across the country to meet up and was arrested. Funny enough, he was not a cross dresser or liberal. Just a small town conservative older white guy that nobody suspected and everyone respected.
That’s practically the checklist for child rapists:
☑ Older
☑ White
☑ Small town
☑ Conservative
☑ Well-respectedI’m guessing religious? Respected pillar of the church?
Yeah… These guys know how to present themselves in ways to avoid suspicion.
And that’s because…
53 pages, 1325 entries. So far.
Kinda funny how the party that isn’t sexually repressive or regressive doesn’t prey on children. I wonder what inferences could be drawn between conservative rhetoric and the sheer number of conservatives busted for child abuse. Is it just the power imbalance?
I think there are many reasons. For one thing, they have the Christian vote locked up, and the sort of Christianity they preach is one where you can do any manner of atrocious things, ask forgiveness, be forgiven, then repeat the cycle. So many clergy that are even in prison for being sex offenders still get defended by their former parishioners.
Another is definitely a power imbalance thing, especially when there is a lot of evidence tying psychopathy to business success. Lacking any real moral code is fine when you’re a rich CEO. As Trump said, “when you’re wealthy, they let you do it.”
A third is that there are a lot of Republican voters who are so rabidly anti-left that they will literally elect a sex offender (Jim Jordan) over a Democrat.
I’m sure people can suggest others.
Well this is all part of the cult indoctrination that has made conspiracy theories a cornerstone of how they interact and interpret the world.
It’s going to take decades (or likely generations) to undo the damage done to the critical thinking of so much of this country. The fact that as you stated they would elect known sex offenders (Trump/Jim Jordon/Matt Gaetz) but still think it’s the “Radical Left” that is the demonic pedophiles is just cognitive dissonance at an alarming level.
I’d love to find the flavor of Christianity that says you need to confess your sins and accept just punishment from the government for them. Without the conservative wink next to “just punishment” of course.
Catholicism requires penance for sins, but not government intervention. I think that’s as close as it gets
I think it is rather that conservatism has nothing to do with being conservative really at the end of the day, that is just the team colors these people wear to identify what team they are on.
Conservatives are conservative so they can hate without guilt and so they can control and possess with violence and be rewarded for it. From this angle the synergy heinous shitheads see in being a Republican and being a pedophile (but also defining your public persona completely around hating pedophiles too) is pretty straightforward in my opinion. Also probably the most pathetic thing on the face of the earth.
Samuel Jason Ingle, Dean of Asheville Christian Academy and a graduate of Liberty University has been arrested for engaging in a sexual act with a student. While registered independent, he chose the GOP primary ballot.
That’s not fair man. I’m registered independent and chose a GOP primary ballot because I wanted to vote against Trump as many times as I could.
I couldn’t imagine being in his position and being accused of being a Republican because of that.
He also graduated from Liberty University.
His poor mother. Her son, getting outed as a Republican. She must be so ashamed.
Oh man it just keeps getting longer.
sigh
That list grows so damn quickly.
Here’s the thing. I really believe that the Republican party is loaded to the gills with criminal creeps. However, if I were to share this list with any of my right-wing Christian acquaintances or (sigh) family, they’ll respond with “Democrats are worse!”
Is there a similar list of Democrat Sexual predators, abusers, and enablers?
Without a corresponding list, it makes it look like it’s just trying to make Republicans look bad (as opposed to just showing what they are).
Why not just ask them to provide one? If they’re even worse, it should be easy to find supporting information.
I’d rather have both lists, and be able to point at the 53 pages of Republican predators and two pages of Democrat predators and say, "see the difference?"1
Like they would accept it as being non-bias.
What happens when you give people with bizarre conspiracy theories a gun and a badge?
Well here in America of A, that’s just Wednesday.
Jus another day -ending in -day
POLICE and MAGAS ignoring laws that are inconvenient for them??!! I’m shocked, SHOCKED I tell you.
They don’t ignore it, they just make sure that they have a friendly judge say it wasn’t illegal when they did it. Much more civilized that way.
I don’t care if Republicans are Kidnapping their Neighbors and Torturing them. The LEFT needs to COOL it with their Violence!
Isn’t the term for this extrajudicial?
“And start whacking some — you know, not to make it political — but whole leftist, corrupt, pedophile, this evil thing that’s taken over Nashville,” Sawyer said.
There it is.
you know, not to make it political
Immediately makes it political
Isn’t there some other word for “ignoring laws”?
“office involved oopsie”
I think… I think it’s one that begins at “Il” and ends with “legal”. So it’s legal after all! Nothing to see here, folks, move along.
MAGA!
Police?
Republican?
That’s the one, “being Republican.”
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.
Of course. Now investigate them and discover they are the predators. Projection is emerging as their core trait.
I think the implications are pretty clear when you read between the lines of painting your political enemies as pedophiles. It’s a very easy way to rile people up into a lynch mob. Here’s the fascist playbook on this: target a minority (LGBTQ in particular) as some kind of deviant or predator, legitimize vigilante violence against this group, extend that to the next group or anyone who tries to defend the first group. Rinse and repeat until you are able to consolidate power and successfully kill or imprison your political enemies with impunity.
You gotta make an effort to go up against child predators and manage to come out looking like the bad guy.
Sounds like there was only 1 actual predator and dozens of people they’re just baselessly accusing or being predators. And the 1 predator will easily get any potential charges laughed out of court if it ever even gets that far.
Back in 2018, Sawyer took a Tucson TV crew to a camp that he suggested might have been used for child sex trafficking.
In fact, police said it was just a camp used by homeless families.
The problem of unhoused people has been solved. Homeless are now pedophiles. Let them get killed in jail.
Just a little preview of a second Trump presidency…
Your average law enforcement agent already has a worrying tendency to be a moron. Now imagine if that person is also a conspiracy theorist.
