The Baltimore Police Gun Trace Task Force

This week on Brohio, we're diving into one of the most jaw-dropping police corruption scandals in American history. The Baltimore Police Department’s Gun Trace Task Force was supposed to get guns off the streets—but behind the scenes, they were robbing drug dealers, planting evidence, reselling seized drugs, and framing innocent people. This elite unit became a criminal enterprise with badges, and the stories are absolutely insane: cash-stuffed safes, mysterious deaths, and cops taking paid vacations on taxpayers’ dime while running a criminal empire. This is Training Day—but real. And way more messed up.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:18):
The hardest part of my life is how bad my
butt hurts when I poop Robert, I've been there, man,
this week's been rough. I even said on my chart
letter to my doctor today about hard stool.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
Sometimes sometimes you know it's a how.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
Much worse does it get? I'm thirty seven years old.
How much harder can it possibly get?

Speaker 2 (00:43):
I think it only gets harder as you get older.
The ship, then other things gets softer as you get older.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
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Stacking these two things. Yeah, my wife's can be mortified
that I'm talking about this. It's just she doesn't like
me anyways. It's called tong gat ali and I'm stacking
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your libido, okay, which didn't really have a libido issuer
uh I didn't think I did. And then we made God,

(01:34):
We made passionate love the other night and I finished,
I finished everything off. I don't know that this has
happened to me since I was like nineteen or twenty
years old, but I finished it off, and the thing
just stayed. It just stayed hard, okay, and I just
kept going yeah, And I went again okay, and it

(01:56):
still didn't go down, so I went again.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
Nice.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
Back to back to back is a triple header.

Speaker 3 (02:03):
Baby.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
It was pretty sweet, man.

Speaker 1 (02:04):
And she's like, I'm I'm calling the police.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
Oh my congratulations on that.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
I know. And I just after that, I got out
of the bed and I swung to the house like
Tarzan put out a big big swinging to the house
and ship, Yeah, I fucking shit my hand threw it
at her and slammed the door like a fucking monkey.

(02:33):
She's like, hey, why'd you just throw a pooping me
hanging from the chandeliers and stuff? Trying to suck my
own dick. So I don't know that ship is, dude,
but that stuff's the truth.

Speaker 3 (02:47):
Baby.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
Welcome to the Brohio Podcast, where uh we are going
to be live in Dallas, Texas on October eleven.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
Its gonna be a good time.

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Brogio Podcast, The Brogio Podcast are the want our wives
keep on talking about, the Ohio podcast. I'm sure everybody
listen to that steaming pilot ship. Sorry I say that, dude.

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Boring they're nothing without it. They're boring without us. Thank you, Tyler.
And then we got simple old Jacob the dude from
the Bible. Thanks man. Uh love having you here. Love,
have you listen to the show. I love the method
of corn and which is in your name. That's a

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very delicious way to eat it. Other than that, man,
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Speaker 2 (06:50):
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Speaker 1 (06:51):
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other day. We use mother's milk, though, I'll do that.
That's that rich shit. It's sweet man. Yeah, tastes like
watermelon water.

Speaker 2 (07:01):
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The Big Blue Fucker.

Speaker 1 (07:08):
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is really good. Monsters Inc. Yeah, and also like Despicable
Me those little guys those are fun too. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (07:17):
Monsters University was like a fucking the Bible at our
house for.

Speaker 1 (07:21):
The longest time. Nate Man, Thank you. That's an interesting
last name too. Sounds like something I would do to manderwear.
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Whatever.

Speaker 1 (07:36):
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Speaker 2 (07:59):
And last but not Lee, we got the another one
named person we got, Jessica. Thank you very much, Jessica.

Speaker 1 (08:04):
That is very inconspicuous. It is. This tells me it
could be a man trying to hide. It could be
the profile picture looks like stick Stickley only friend. No,
that was a smile, that was face.

Speaker 2 (08:18):
That was oh yeah, face, I forgot about face. I
remember stick Stickley.

Speaker 1 (08:24):
Stick sticky baby. Jessica, thank you. We love having you here.
Hopefully one day you can finally come out and just
tell us your last name. That would be great so
we could have more of an intimate connection knowing your
last name. Speaking of me swinging through the house like
Tarzan and having lots of sex. This comes from CBC

(08:51):
Canada Radio. What's so funny? Robert fucking title of the
article you have? You haven't even let me read you
in your chimps are sticking grass and sticks in their butts,
seemingly as a fashion trend. The new phenomenon that appears

(09:11):
to be a fresh spin on an old fad of
wearing grass in their ears. Dude. A group of chimpanzees
and zombia have resurrected an old fashioned trend with a
surprising new twist. Fifteen years after a female chimpanzee named
Julie first stuck a blade of grass into her ear

(09:34):
and started a hot new craze among her cohorts at
the Chimfunshie Wildlife Orphanage. An entirely new group of chimps
at the refuge have started doing the same thing. We
were really shocked that this had happened again, Jake Booker,
a psychologist in Great Apes researcher at Durham University in England,

(09:55):
told As it Happens host Neil coach Day. We were
even more shocked. They were doing their own spin on
this by also inserting the grass and sticks in a
different orifice. The chimps, he says, have been putting blades
of grass and sticks in their ears and anuses and
simply letting them dangle there for no apparent reason.

Speaker 2 (10:16):
Just letting grass dangle out of your ass. That's how
I know that we're not that fucking distantly related to monkeys,
because I do the same thing.

Speaker 3 (10:24):
It's grass and sticks, dude.

Speaker 1 (10:27):
Dude, I could.

Speaker 2 (10:28):
I could show some grass in my butt, but never
a stick that would hurt dude.

Speaker 1 (10:32):
Why I tell my wh I tell my wife, my god,
you gotta stick up your ass. She gets so mad,
she gets so fucking mad.

Speaker 2 (10:40):
She's like, who fire fucking dead, Go Joe, take out
with her glass.

Speaker 1 (10:46):
Chimps, we'll try grass. Maybe we'll start grass for your
ass and work up to logs and shit.

Speaker 2 (10:52):
If chimps are doing it like that often, then that
begs the question does it really is?

Speaker 1 (10:57):
You know, having a stick up your ass really that bad?

Speaker 3 (11:01):
Right?

Speaker 1 (11:01):
I guess not.

Speaker 2 (11:02):
They're doing it repeatedly, can't be that bad.

Speaker 1 (11:04):
The study, published in the journal Behavior last week, shed's
new light on how social cultural trend spread and change
among our primate cousins, much like to do amongst humans.
In fact, the researchers suspect the chimps learn the behaviors
from people. The ear part. That is, the two groups
of chimps who display the behavior don't have any contact
with one another, but they do share some of the
same human caretakers, and those caretakers, the study notes, report

(11:28):
that they sometimes use match sticks or blades of grass
to clean their ears when working at the animal sanctuary. Oh,
I bet you they didn't see anyone stick us stick
up their ass. Yeah, that sounds like we've got some
guilty caretakers.

Speaker 2 (11:48):
Fall video that they have a monkey smoking a cigarette.
Now it's pretty fucking cool.

Speaker 1 (11:51):
Yeah, that motherfucker looks like he's got a mortgage and smokes.
Paul Molls, he's going through financial hardship. Fuck you saying
there picking fleas off of himself. There isn't too much
more information here that's beneficially, this is a really long article.
They spend a lot of time looking at each other's butts.

Speaker 2 (12:11):
Hey, as do we?

Speaker 1 (12:14):
Yeah, nothing better than a good took us as possible
that doing it to make themselves more attractive to potential mates.
Females in particular, she noted displays swelling on their ear
ends to indicate that their receptive to a little hanky pinky.
Interesting if humans are like that, their ears swell like
you just walk by a woman in her ears are

(12:35):
all swollen up, like I said, of fecially freshly kicked nuts.
And that's how you know she's ready to be hot
dog down. Maybe got them protruding lobes. God, they're dangling.
Your ears stink? Have you ever been with a woman
whose ears stink?

Speaker 2 (12:53):
No, nothing I'm aware of. I don't know how I
feel about that.

Speaker 1 (13:00):
Smell? Like what I would think a ear smells like
I cleaned my ears every single day. Dude. If I
get like I pull a bunch of orange fudge out
of it, I get confused because I cleaned it every
single day. Who put that in there? A second, just
when I had a mop here yesterday, I was with

(13:24):
a woman whose ears stunk. Dude, how'd that go? I
dropped her off at the the Animal Resource Center and
I told him that just wasn't for me. I wanted
to adopt another one, so worked out.

Speaker 2 (13:40):
That's good.

Speaker 1 (13:40):
Yeah, so I got Pepper. Her ears don't stink well.
Her ear smell hacre toes, which smell like free toes.
Because dog's feet smell like free do's, which is I
always thought was pretty interesting. Not the chili cheese variety.

Speaker 2 (13:55):
It is a straight standard edition.

Speaker 1 (13:58):
I think dogs smelling like Freedo's is the only thing
that I'm okay with their feet smelling like Yeah, like
if you pull them bad boys off and they smell
like cinnamon at the fucking mall, man, So why but
it just wouldn't be right coming from a dog's foot,
That's true.

Speaker 2 (14:17):
Yeah, I mean it checks out. That's what you would.

Speaker 1 (14:21):
I guess that's what you would think they smell, would
smell like right, yeah, but you get a whiff of FreeDOS,
You're like, that's dog feet. Yeah he's fine. Oh man,
I love We went to the mall last night.

Speaker 3 (14:33):
My kids like, can we get cinnamon?

Speaker 1 (14:36):
And I said, we gotta get the fuck out of
here because it's been your mortgage to get fucking cinnamon rolled. Yeah,
twelve seventy nine for fucking bun It's crazy. No thanks, gee,
hottyese Man. All right, guys, here's a quick break for
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(15:01):
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Some drinks, and it's Texans hoping to be stabbed by
a Mexican in the parking lot. We could plan that,
we can make that happen for you. We could, We
absolutely could. But in the meantime, we're gonna start this
episode about the Baltimore Gun Trace Task Force.

Speaker 3 (15:36):
I was.

Speaker 1 (15:38):
So this is a you know, normally, when we go
to an episode, it's either monsters or aliens, or true
crime or urban legends. Conspiracies. Never do we never have
we done an episode on deep police corruption. We did
the Holman Square thing in Chicago. That was more of

(16:00):
just like a secret site they used. But this is
like but deep, deep police corruption, okay, And it is
a tale to be told, my friend. It is one
of the most insane police corruption scandals in American history.
The Baltimore Gun Trace task Force and from here on out,

(16:23):
if you hear me say the task Force, that's what
I'm talking about is the Baltimore Police Department Gun Trace
task Force. And not your average cop drama we talked
about here. This is a story of rogue police officers
who use their badges and guns to rob people, extort people,
terrorize the community they ever supposed to protect. They were

(16:45):
doing all kinds of things, planting drugs on people, to
stage high speed chases. They were killing innocent people. There's
a lot going on here, a whole lot. There's a
lot of players involved here, dirty cops in no way.
You know what movie I just saw for the first
time fairly recently. It was Training Day.

Speaker 2 (17:06):
Now I've never seen it.

Speaker 1 (17:08):
Oh my god, dude, such a good movie. What's his name? God?
Is the Black fellow from Remember the Titans, the coach
John you know him.

Speaker 2 (17:24):
Talking about been a lot of times I've seen her,
Remember the Titans since high school?

Speaker 1 (17:32):
Let's see training day. People are yelling me, this is
one of the most What the fuck just happened? Fucking
shutting everything down? You can't even look it up.

Speaker 2 (17:45):
Uh, Denzel, Denzel Washington, Denzel, Sorry, my browser just closed.

Speaker 3 (17:51):
You're good.

Speaker 2 (17:52):
And Ethan Cock, I know all about mister Cock. Yeah,
I think you know what, Maybe I have seen this.
It's yeah, I think I have seen this.

Speaker 1 (18:08):
It's a really good movie.

Speaker 2 (18:09):
A Mendoz is in it.

Speaker 1 (18:10):
Oh ye gods. In two thousand and seven, the Baltimore
Police Department created the g TTF, or the Gun Trace
Task Force ee plane, closed police unit tasked with getting
illegal guns off the street. Hey, that's something that needs
to happen in these sure, in all all cities across America.

(18:33):
Get the crime guns off the street, leave the good
ones behind. But a gun in the hands of someone
that does not use it, or someone that wants to
use it for the wrong purposes is one of the
most difficult things that we're ever gonna have to overcome
as a as a population. It's utter chaos. Baltimore was

(18:54):
absolutely hemorrhaging from gun violets, with a murder rate climbing
to record highs three hundred and forty three killings in
twenty seventeen alone. That's almost a human per day gun
down and via homicide by a gun, or fifty six
homicides per one hundred thousand people. The task Force was

(19:17):
supposed to be the city's answer, a crack team of aggressive,
street smart police officers who could go after the bad
guys with guns in high crime neighborhoods. But instead of
cleaning up the streets the various streets they were sworn
to protect, these officers actually became predators, praying on Baltimore's
most vulnerable communities. It's hard for people to understand what

(19:42):
those communities are like if you've never been a part
of them. For you know, I know, guys are like, oh,
fucking inner city, just fucking close it down, board it up. Well,
these are American citizens. Where are we gonna put them all?
You can't just you know, you can't just you can't
do that. But gun violence in these inner cities it

(20:03):
is a major, major problem. But until you understand the
culture until you understand them. So you I'm not defending
drug dealers, I'm not defending people in the inner city.
I'm not. But if you see, you see Larry. Larry's

(20:25):
on the news. He did a drive by shooting at
a gas station against a rival gang member. Let's fast,
let's rewind till the day Larry was born. Larry was
born to a crack addicted mother with no father. Larry
grew up in a broken home, passed from home to home,

(20:46):
from family member to family member. The only continuity in
life that Larry could find where the brothers in the
gang that he was in. Not only were these the
people that he relied upon, but this is how he
got paid. So for someone to say Larry is a
fucking scumbag piece of shit, well he you know he is.

(21:07):
But the only thing Larry has ever known is violence.
The only way of life he's ever been able to
be able to afford to live is by functioning in
a gang. So when that gang says we got to
do a hit or you're not getting paid, then it
becomes a matter of my life versus their life. Am

(21:28):
I gonna starve to death? Or am I gonna do
this hit? And it's a vicious, vicious, vicious cycle in
the inner city.

Speaker 2 (21:36):
The whole product of your environment at.

Speaker 1 (21:38):
Yeah, and it is, and we gotta fix, got to
fix the environment, gotta fix and you get a there's
so many Baltimore's a rough area. It is the worst.
Wayne Jenkins wasn't just a cop. He was the ring
leader of an empire. He was promoted a sergeant and

(22:00):
placed in charge of the task force in twenty sixteen.
Wayne Jenkins was already well known in the departments, well
in the Baltimore Police Department, for being aggressive, charismatic, a
golden boy to some in a walking red flag to others.
He did have a reputation for being in the middle
of every major drug bust, yet somehow always managed to

(22:23):
skirt complaints officers. They described him as a guy who
always knew where the drugs were, because often he had
planted them himself. Jenkins built a team of like minded
officers who shared one priority, personal profit. He gave out
assignments like a CEO would, directing who to follow, who
to rob, and how to split the cash Amongst all

(22:45):
of them. He taught younger police officers how to write
false reports, how to lie in court, and how to
maximize overtime pay without actually working, which they were caught
to in that Dead Rights yikes, and perhaps the most disturbing,
he taught them how to turn citizens guilty or not
into victims. The task force consisted of eight core members.

(23:09):
Uh Sergeant Wayne Jenkins, who we just talked about the
ring leader. There was Sergeant Thomas Allers, there was Uh,
and then there's Detective Momma do Gond aka g Money
is what they called him. Oh my god, damn you, Mama, Do.

Speaker 2 (23:28):
Mama, Mama do Gondo.

Speaker 1 (23:38):
Get a little Adam sailor going on. I'm really excited
for having Gilmore too, and I'm getting in the zone. Man,
It's I couldn't be more ecstatic for Did you see
that callaway putter? Yeah, at ten thousand dollars. You know,
I've been golfing a lot and I just bought a
new putter. But my new putter was one hundred bucks.

(23:59):
It was Odyssey White Hot. But yeah, this, uh, this
is a real like the Odyssey came out with the
happy Gilmour putterer.

Speaker 3 (24:06):
That thing is gorgeous.

Speaker 1 (24:08):
We sold out.

Speaker 2 (24:08):
I looked at the other day and it was sold out.

Speaker 1 (24:10):
Got to do already claring not paying four on that bitch.

Speaker 2 (24:13):
It comes in the fucking you get the sock, head
cover and everything for it. Pretty sweet.

Speaker 1 (24:18):
Old G Money or Momadu Gondhu, was a task force
officer who simultaneously operated as a mole for a drug ring.
He would tip off drug dealers about raids, then turn
around and rob their their local drug deal rivals. G
Money moved large quantities of heroin and cocaine and even

(24:39):
confessed to laundering drug proceeds through a local bail bondsman,
Evodio Hendrix. Another major player. One of the officers here
was Jammel Rayam. He was a G Money's partner in crime,
a veteran officer who freely admitted on the stand to
stealing money during at least twenty different robberies. Rayam also

(25:01):
tampered with evidence and kept a personal list of stash
house targets. In one case, he robbed a suspect of
eleven thousand dollars in Leidencourt and got the man convicted anyways, damn.
Another police officer by the name of Maurice Wood. Another
officer by the name of Daniel hearsl Herschel was known
as the most hated cop in all of Baltimore. His

(25:22):
reputation on the streets was legendary for brutality. He was
the face of aggressive policing, with over one hundred civilian complaints,
including excessive force and verbal abuse. Herschel joined the Task
Force later in its run, but eagerly embraced its criminal ethos.
There was also Marcus Taylor. Other officers like Keith Gladstone

(25:44):
and Carmine Vignola got tangled in the mess two. And
these weren't rookies. These were seasoned cops, some with decades
on the force, hand picked for their ability to make
arrest and seize guns. But at the investigative company Steptone
Johnson LP, they later revealed many of these officers had
a multitude of red flags in their records long before

(26:08):
they joined the Task Force. And we were talking about
complaints of excessive force, dishonesty, insubordination, even theft. Wow, I'll
employed as police officers. Theft from that, the that the
Baltimore Police Department had just completely blatantly ignored the corruption

(26:31):
is such a crazy thing in like big city departments. Oh,
it's on, It's on. It's unreal, it's un for lack
of a better term, it's unpoliced. And with power comes.
Once you get that power, once you get that thing rolling,
you don't you don't stop man, and a lot of

(26:52):
and we're seeing it now. So and I don't want
to get this too lost in the weeds. I want
to say, I know a lot are really good police officers.
I know. I know that I know a handful of
men that want to make genuine change in the world.
And they and they, and they've done that, they've they've

(27:12):
worked towards that. But I know just as many guys
that have no fucking business driving around town with a
gun and a badge arresting people. One of the most
frustrating parts about I shouldn't say all police officers, but
most departments. We take essentially a high school graduate, because

(27:36):
you can get a job as a police officer as
a high school graduate. We send them to a police
academy for I don't know, three months, and with that
three months of training, we give them the ability to
completely alter the path of somebody's life.

Speaker 2 (27:52):
You and without even knowing how the law actually works,
And it could be a day that they're having a
bad day, and they decide, oh, you know what, I
want to jam this dude up for jaywalking.

Speaker 1 (28:11):
Have you ever jaywalked? Oh?

Speaker 2 (28:12):
You fucking I have.

Speaker 1 (28:14):
Anytime I'm in the big city, downtown at fucking jaywalk.

Speaker 2 (28:16):
Anytime in the city.

Speaker 1 (28:17):
Yeah, what if that officer one day, he's having a
good day, so he just watches you jaywalk. The next
day he's having a bad day, he sees you jaywalk again,
he stops you. You're on your way to your job interview.
You haven't had a job in six months. He gives
you a fucking jaywalking ticket for one hundred and fifty dollars.
You don't have a single dollar to your name. You

(28:39):
don't have any way to feed your family. You go
home with one hundred and fifty dollars fine, you don't
pay it. It turns into a warrant. You're arrested, you
can't pay it, and just over and over, just like
this vitcious cycle of in and out of jail over
a fucking ticket for walking across the street.

Speaker 2 (28:53):
It's crazy.

Speaker 1 (28:54):
You eventually determined that it's too much, you kill yourself,
or better yet, you turn to drugs. You turned to
crime to raise the money to do it.

Speaker 3 (29:02):
You see.

Speaker 1 (29:02):
It's like, and we gave all that power. I guess
I could say, well, don't don't jaywalk. That's the simpleants.
Don't fucking jaywalk. Obey the walls, obey the rules of
the road. Sure, but every single person listening to this
podcast as jaywalk. Before.

Speaker 2 (29:18):
We were in Columbus for the Golf Memorial a couple
of months ago, and I left the course on the
I got out on the wrong side, so I had
to go across the street. And where I was going
to go across the street, there was a cop sitting
in his cruiser and I walk up to him. I
was like, hey's okay if I crossed over here, and
he just looked at me and he was like, I
don't give a ship, just don't get hit.

Speaker 1 (29:38):
And I'm like, hell yeah, dude, see I don't give
a shit. Don't that's cool? Bit crazy? We essentially take
a high school graduate and give them the ability to
ruin people's lives.

Speaker 2 (29:52):
It's crazy, man, but crazy, you know.

Speaker 1 (29:57):
That's just the way it the way it works. I
don't like the way it works. And I'm not I'm
not a cop hater. I'm value all civil servants. They
work jobs that I would never want to fucking do.
But I think there's gotta be some checks and balances there.
I really do. And some people say, well, it's the
US court system, but take it as someone who's been

(30:18):
in the court system before. You don't get the benefit
of the doubt unless you're an attorney or you're in
a cop that's the only time you get a benefit
of the doubt.

Speaker 2 (30:26):
And it's being a police officer is one of those
things that especially like, as you know, let's just take
the United States for example, as citizens of the country,
you know, you hear the worst possible stories. You never
hear like really much about you know, the good things
that law enforcement does or you know, police officers. It's

(30:46):
always the really bad things. And usually the really bad things.
You know, those are things that you that really stick
with you. And you see things like you know, police
department corruption like that, and it's it just it just
tends to put a power taste in the whole throughout
the entire fucking thing. That's what most people were just
like jaded by it.

Speaker 1 (31:06):
And then you read stories like we're telling right now,
and you're just like, wait a second, I don't know
if I trust these fellas, even though if they are
the most trustworthy guys that are just trying to make people,
make sure people are banning the walls, make sure nobody's
getting hurt getting killed. This task force operated with near
unchecked power, and that's why kind of it had risen

(31:28):
to the level that it was plane closed cops in
unmarked vehicles. They roam Baltimore's toughest, worst neighborhoods, most crime
ridden neighborhoods, free to bend the rules as long as
they delivered results. And deliver they did hundreds upon hundreds
of arrests and piles of guns and drugs seized. But
behind the stats was a horrifying truth. The gun traced

(31:52):
Task Force was running a criminal empire, using their badges
to rob, extort, and frame innocent people while pocketing millions
of dollar of cash, drugs, and jewelry. A lot of
these crimes sound like some shit from a Hollywood crime drama,
and as we move through this, you just gonna be like,
how in them, how in the world did this happen?

(32:14):
The task Force. They didn't just arrest criminals, they rob them.
Officers admitted to stealing cash, stealing drugs, stealing jewelry, all
deering searches, often targeting drug dealers who just they couldn't
report the thefts without incriminating themselves. So if these guys
pulled somebody, they pull over crack dealer. The crack dealer

(32:34):
to have ten thousand dollars of cash in his pocket
from dealing dope. I'd say, have a nice fucking night,
you got anything to saying, we'll blow your brains out,
And then they would pocket the ten thousand dollars and
that's that. And then the drug dealer, the crack dealer's like, hey,
wait a second, that's my money's And here's the thing.
This isn't this kind of activity is not just happening

(32:58):
in Baltimore.

Speaker 3 (32:59):
This is happening.

Speaker 1 (33:00):
Across I worked with correction officers who would find cash
and sells and keep it. The inmates weren't allowed to
have cash, but these officers would find cash because that
was one of the If you're an inmate with a
lot of cash, you could get guards to do stuff
for you. You'd pay them one hundred dollars bill, you
could get them to do stuff. These officers I worked

(33:22):
with no integrity they would take the they take the
cash put in their pocket and just like I never
said anything because you know what, the I'm just at
your business, yeah whatever, But you kind of took an
oath there, and you're supposed to be noble and honorable
and you're not really doing that, you know. In court,

(33:44):
officers confest to pocketing at least three hundred thousand dollars
in cash. A lot of people say it was tenfolds,
sure that much. Forty three pounds of marijuana, eight hundred
grams of heroin, three kilos of cocaine, and hundreds of
thousands of dollars and jewelry. One officer, Jamel Ryam, admitted
to stealing money as early as two thousand and nine,

(34:06):
long before he was even on the tax force. He
and Sergeant Wayne Jenkins once split twenty thousand dollars from
a home invasion where they posed as police.

Speaker 2 (34:17):
You heard that, right, couseplaying as themselves.

Speaker 1 (34:23):
They got called to uh, I want to say, they
got called to a restaurant or a building of some
type for maybe like an accidental an accidental silent alarm deal.
They responded to the call and then they saw that
the family that was working there had twenty thousand dollars.

(34:48):
It twenty thousand years. They had twenty thousand dollars cash
sitting out on the table that was earmarked for them
to pay their taxes the next day. So the police
officers got off that got off the clock and then
went to the house and then went essentially went into

(35:10):
the house with lookouts. They had guys that weren't police
officers looking out for and make sure no more cops
showed up. They went said police, open up, open up, police.
They let him in. The cops go in and just
ransacked the place, knowing full well that they had the
twenty thousand dollars cash. They took the cash, you know,
and disappeared in the night. No body cams, no dash cams, no,

(35:35):
no nothing. Just showed up in their personal cars pretending
to be police officers, which they really were police officers,
ranside the house and took the twenty thousand dollars. And
this this wasn't a one off. Officers testified they did

(35:56):
this type of behavior, I'm sorry. One of the most
shocking stories came from a drug dealer turned government witness.
He testified that the task force officers rolled up, threw
open their van doors in a door pop tactic and
chased down anyone who ran. After catching them, they searched
his car. They found twenty thousand dollars in cash and

(36:17):
pocketed it. The dealer didn't dare report it. After all,
who would believe a criminal over a police officer. This
was not a one off. Officers testified that they did this,
these door pops, which I'll elaborate on, They did these
door pops ten to fifty times a night during Baltimore's
streets and turning the Baltimore streets into the personal ATMs.

(36:37):
These door pops. They would be in an unmarked van.
They would see a group of black guys. This is all.
It was race driven. It was race driven. They would
see a group of black guys who he deemed were
likely drug dealers. They would pull up in their van,
throw open the door. This is the door pop. They
just pop the door, jump out. Anybody that ran, got

(36:59):
chack and taken down. They would confiscate any cash they
would find, or they would just take the guys in
the custody and they'd say tell me where the money's
at and I'll let you go. And the dude be like, oh,
my dude, doe and so down an apartment five has
you know, five grand up in the closet. So they
would go take the cash. They would essentially go fucking
door to door in these apartment complexes, taking money, taking jewelry,

(37:23):
confiscating it as evidence, which it was all possibly stolen,
all possibly acquired in illegal ways.

Speaker 2 (37:32):
Crime money.

Speaker 1 (37:32):
So these people were like, oh, hold on a second,
he just took too, he just took you know, twelve
thousand dollars with a heroin money. They don't call. They
just chalk up their losses, like, thank god I didn't
go to jail tonight. It was essentially the perfect marriage
to make money. But these door pops, they would show up,
pop the door, jump out. Anybody that ran got chased,
you know, they would sometimes pop the doors. Nobody would run.

(37:53):
They'd be like, have a great fucking night. They get
back in the van, just take off. That's fucking crazy, dude,
it's crazy.

Speaker 3 (38:00):
Fuck.

Speaker 1 (38:02):
They would just learn just not to run, then don't run.
Ain't gonna fuck with you. What a blood the uh.
The task Force didn't just steal, They framed people to
cover up their tracks as well. And they were God,
they were good at framing people and uh, my daughter's

(38:24):
text means said, I just signed up for my first
college visit. Oh jeez, Monday at Miami. You hell yeah.
I'd love for her to go someplace close.

Speaker 2 (38:32):
I want my music school.

Speaker 1 (38:34):
I want him to stay close the In one chilling case,
officers planted heroin in a car after a deadly high
speed chase in twenty ten. This is a really bad one,
Officers Umar Burley and Brent Matthew. I'm sorry, these were
uh these were citizens. Citizens. Umar Burley and Brent Matthews

(38:55):
were pulled over by Wayne Jenkins, Ryan Gwynn and Sean
Suiter suspect they were suspected drug activity, fearing for their lives,
which I'm sure they were not fearing for their lives.
I'm sure they were probably actually doing things they weren't
supposed to do. The men fled, sparking a police chase
that ended in a horrific traffic crash. Their car collided

(39:19):
with Elbert Davis Senior's vehicle, killing him and critically injuring
his partner Fosa Kane. After the crash, the officers retrieved
heroin from their police cruisers and planted the heroin in
Burley's car to justify the traffic stop and the ensuing
police chase. That's disgusting. Burley was convicted and served years

(39:42):
in prison until a twenty seventeen Department of Justice investigation
exposed the truth about the atrocities the task force had committed.

Speaker 2 (39:51):
That was seven years.

Speaker 1 (39:53):
Seven years.

Speaker 2 (39:54):
Yeah, seven fucking years. Geez dude, yeah salty, I'd fucking
be about that. Not only did your can partner get
murdered in the crash or get killed in the crash,
you got drugs planted in your shit heroin heroin. Yeah, dude, this.

Speaker 1 (40:09):
Is dirty pool rate. That's disgusting. Baltimore later paid Davis's
family six million, part of over twenty two million dollars
in settlements for the task force to misconduct. Another victim
by the name of Marquise Dukes shared a gut wrenching
story with WMAR two news. As a teenager in two
thousand and seven, he encountered Daniel Hersel, who was the

(40:30):
Baltimore police officer who who he said had the reputation
so notorious that kids in the neighborhood warned, don't let
Hersel catch you. He'll beat you up. That's what they said.
During a street stop, Hersel lined up Dukes and his friends,
searched them and planted a gun from his trunk on
one of them, threatening to pen a murder charge. Dukes's

(40:52):
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gonna have to skip all that and edit it out,
and we can't get the video to play. It's weird

(44:09):
my browser. My computer hasn't been restarted in about four
and a half years. Wonder what the problem is. And
I can't figure out what's going on with it. I
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me meet single moms in my area. Put it in
Rice because I wanted to tell them about how much

(44:31):
I've been enjoying going to church. And now my computer
won't work anyways. To ask Force, they didn't just steal drugs,
They sold the drugs as well. Sergeant Wayne Jenkins, the
ring leader. He partnered with a bail bondsman by the
name of Donald Stepp to move narcotics that they had

(44:51):
seized during raids. Step testified they sold around one million
dollars worth of drugs, including heroin, including cocaine, flooding Baltimore
streets with the various substances they were supposed to be
removing from the criminals. Sergeant Jenkins would hand over drugs
from bus and the bail bondsman's step would distribute them,

(45:12):
splitting the profits. This wasn't petty crime, it was a
full blown drug trafficking empire run by the police officers.
The task Force milked the system for personal gain. Officers
filed fraudulent overtime reports, claiming hours they never even worked,
some even while on vacation in the Dominican Republic. Elliot racket,

(45:37):
some overtime hours while you're.

Speaker 2 (45:39):
Having a little Coco loco, fucking little pina colada.

Speaker 1 (45:43):
Margy rita. They also falsified police reports and affidavits to
justify illegal searches and arrests, often lying under oath. Yeah,
when we went the podcast cruise, we went to coast
to Coasta Maya. Yeah, we were there on that beach

(46:05):
and there was a guy on a tricycle that rode by.
It looked like he had a fish aquarium, and I
walked up to look inside the fish aquarium and it
was corn. So he was riding around with a fish
aquarium full of corn, live action corn. And I said, Wow,
I'm in Mexico. This must be Mexican street corn out
of a turtle aquarium. Gotta have this, said how much

(46:30):
he said fifteen dollars from what I said, Yeah, I
get the fuck out of here, no caprin day essay.
I started to walk away. He said, I fy by
by by bye bye bye bye bye bye bye. Yeah,
and how much? He said both? I said no, no,
what did you say? Bye bye bye bye? So paying

(46:51):
five dollars? I got my corn out of a turtle aquarium.

Speaker 2 (46:55):
He tried to fucking smoose you, over dog. He said,
all this white guy can afford it fucking corn.

Speaker 1 (47:05):
I remember, it smelled so bad and tasted so bad.
It was rough. The corn looked like your feet, like
you soak your feet in water and your piggy wigglies
all wrinkly. That's what the corn looked like.

Speaker 2 (47:22):
Yeah, I think you had everybody try it too.

Speaker 1 (47:24):
It was gross. It was really bad. It tastes like
it's my own stupid fault for buying corn out of
a turtle aquarium. We had like this work ball the
other day and my wife was like, I'm getting my toes. Nice,
I'm going with you, a baby girl, she said, for
what I said, I'm gonna get a pedicure. Also nice,
you ever had a pedicure the ones that I have

(47:47):
I've done it one other time and it was really nice.
It got your feet really soft and they got all
the dead skin off the bottom of your feet and
you got a foot and a calf massage. So this
time I'm going in and I'm like, you know, most
guys like, I hope I get some fucking hot Chinese girl. Yeah,
I hope I get the panda from Panda Express. Hope.

(48:08):
I'm just saying to myself, I hope they have to go.
Like I tell him, Hey, I'm here for a pedicure,
and they're like, get Olga from the back.

Speaker 2 (48:17):
Yeah, comes out power tools, fucking buffer.

Speaker 3 (48:23):
But then.

Speaker 1 (48:26):
When I first walked in, I was like, oh, this
is one of these places they bring their kids to work.
They got kids over like watching, you know, their tablets
and ship in the corner, which that's kind of like
a cultural thing. Every Chinese restaurant I go to, there's
a kid doing trigonometry on a fucking kindle fire over
in the corner. Or they work the register. One by us.

(48:46):
He works the registry. He's in my daughter's grade. My
daughter is eight, and he runs a cash register at
the Chinese restaurant.

Speaker 2 (48:52):
Dude, they start him young.

Speaker 3 (48:53):
Man.

Speaker 1 (48:54):
She knows his name. She's like, oh, hey, fucking trend train.
I don't know what his name is, but she's like hey,
and he's like hello, I'm working my Yeah, gotta you
gotta leave them alone. But they got there, they got
their kids over there. You know. There's one girl sitting
there like a cherry shirt and shit, and she's watching.
I'm like, okay, they sent me down. Uh. And then
the girl, the little kid on the iPad and the

(49:14):
cherry shirt, starts walking over towards me and she's like,
you just want a regular pedicure. And I was like,
uh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. She goes and grabs
a tackle box and she comes down. You got a
little kid. Fucking poor kid. She comes back with her

(49:38):
little snackle box and sits down and gets that cheese
grater and chainsaw and due the entire time, I'm just like,
this is the most uncomfortable, compromising, most criminally aligned activity

(49:58):
I've ever participated. Then this is human trafficking. This girl
doesn't get paid. My feet stinked. I have a club foot,
I have a hangnail, I have gout my left toe
knuckles smells like a fucking turd. Wrapped in cellophane, and
this poor little fourth grader, I mean, honestly, full disclosure,

(50:20):
I would say she's probably sixteen or seventeen. That's my
official Finally dial yeah yeah, and I'm just like, please, God,
get this over with please and uh. And then the
part where they start to rub your calves. I told
her was like, my calves are really really sore from
working out. Can we just skip that? She's like, yeah, yeah,

(50:41):
that's fine. I had to get the fuck out it.
I was nauseous. I was afraid, ice was I was
afraid something was gonna happen. Someone was gonna come in.
Chris Hans high I'm Chris Hanson from Daylight NBC. I
saw you just got a pedicure.

Speaker 2 (50:55):
What are you doing in that chair, sir?

Speaker 1 (50:56):
Why are you sitting with that young girl? Well? I
wanted the old fat Chinese buddhup woman in the back
it looks like Popeye, But I got Dora the fucking
Explorer sitting here. She was a Spanic too. She wasn't
even Chinese, only fucking a Spanic woman in the entire place.
I shouldn't say woman. God dude, it was so weird.

Speaker 2 (51:16):
I was gonna make an Asian joke, but then I
didn't because he.

Speaker 1 (51:21):
Was one hot smallie. I felt awful. If I want
her to be like I just want to look I
sort of like trying to lip lip like lip to her,
like do you like rubbing my back? Can I fart? Please?

(51:41):
Let me fart? Do it better? I'm calling ice up
rob And she did not look like she's enjoying herself either.
Then this like really buff Chinese dude was walking around.
He looked at her and did like the fucking you know,
like the the orderly and happy Gilmore. You're in my

(52:02):
world now, Grandma, He did like the the I pointing thing.

Speaker 2 (52:04):
Should ask for a fucking audible for him?

Speaker 1 (52:07):
Oh yeah, he was steroids, Like, get your big dumpy
ass over here, rub me rubbed you popped these corns
off my feet?

Speaker 2 (52:13):
Was he Hispanic too?

Speaker 1 (52:15):
He looked like he might have been half Asian half Hispanic.
He was.

Speaker 3 (52:18):
He was.

Speaker 1 (52:19):
He was beautiful. He was a good looking dude, had
a big, wide back on him. He was like five
foot three. He looked like the ninja from the Little
Ninja Boy from a teenage mutant Ninja Turtles to the
Secret of the US pizza delivery driver looked like him.

(52:39):
He definite knew Karate though. He was. Yeah, so please
don't call the police on me for that. I did
tell them multiple times that I was uncomfortable.

Speaker 2 (52:51):
It was consensual.

Speaker 1 (52:56):
My wife's like, look at me, smiling. How's it going.
I'm like, this is this is I'm gonna fucking kill myself. Yeah,
that's that's weird. I want to drop a toaster in
this little foot bath and eliminate myself. Yeah that sucks.

Speaker 2 (53:09):
I'm sorry you went through that. She went through that.

Speaker 1 (53:12):
She's like, what do you want to do now? I'm like,
I want to suck start a shotgun right now, if
you don't mind, Jesus. The the Task Force, well, they
milk the system for personal gain. Officers filed fraudulent overtime
reports claiming they'd worked hours they never uh, they never

(53:33):
even were. Like we said, they went the Dominican Republic
and they were claiming they were working overtime. It was yeah.
The task Force door pop tactic was pure intimidation. They'd
speed towards groups of people, slay them on the brakes
and fleeing open their van doors, watching us see who
ran away. If someone bolted, They chase them down, detain them,

(53:55):
and often rob them or frame them. This happened dozens
of times a night. That's right, dozens I do. I
do want to say.

Speaker 2 (54:03):
I want to give props where props are due the
fact that they're getting out of a car and then
they're chasing these guys down and they're catching them in
the hood. Good for them.

Speaker 1 (54:13):
I mean, did you see what the officers look like?

Speaker 2 (54:15):
No, I didn't.

Speaker 1 (54:16):
They look like criminals? Oh? Okay, fits they well, I
shouldn't say they look like criminals. Uh, they they look fast,
let's put it that way. Oh yeah, Oh dude, Yeah,
those are fast guys. Kay.

Speaker 2 (54:32):
Yeah, maybe not the white ones. No, but those brothers though,
some fast boys. I could tell fucking mama, due can run.

Speaker 3 (54:42):
They got some speed.

Speaker 1 (54:44):
They got them big old hanging purple dicks and they
got some speed.

Speaker 3 (54:48):
Baby.

Speaker 1 (54:49):
Good for them. Man, that's crazy. The they're this This happened,
like we said, ten to fifty times per night, turning
entire namehborhoods in the Hunting Grounds. Residents lived in fear,
knowing a task Force encounter could mean losing their money,
their freedom, or even their lives. The task Force crimes

(55:11):
left a trail of devastation, particularly in Baltimore's black and
low income communities. Like we stated earlier, some stories from
I guess some of the atrocities that they had committed.
Elbert Davis Junior's family, I think he was the one
that was killed in the accident. Shirley Johnson, which was

(55:33):
his daughter, fought for years to uncover the truth about
her father's twenty ten death. She told the AP that
the police fed her family lies for seven years, claiming
the crash was Burley's fault, which was the criminal, the
one who had heroin planted in his vehicle. Only after
the DOJ exposed the planet Heroin did the truth come out.

(55:56):
Johnson described reliving a trauma with every new revelation, saying
we can try to put our lives back together again.
Wayne Jenkins, the sergeant ringleader, apologized directly to her in court,
but it was cold comfort for a family torn apart.
Tyree Washington. In twenty twenty, Baltimore Magazine reported on Washington's

(56:16):
arrest by a new Baltimore Police Department plane closed unit,
the District Action Team, which echoed the Task Force tactics.
Washington insisted on his Fourth Amendment rights, but officers searched
him anyways, pulling a gun from his waist pants. Doctor
Joseph Richardson, a University of Maryland professor, compared these tactics

(56:36):
to the War on Drugs, noting how they disproportionately targeted
black communities perpetuating distrust. The task force actions led to
over eight hundred criminal cases being dropped due to tainted evidence.
Hundreds of Baltimore Baltimoreans, many innocent, had their lives upended.

(56:59):
Some lost, they lost homes, they spent years in prison.
The scandal deep in the city's legal synonism. Uh, let
me say the cynicism. Cynicism, cynicism where residents stopped trusting
police enough where they just said, fuck it, we're not
even calling nine one.

Speaker 3 (57:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (57:19):
That led to a gigantic spike in homicides. People turned
to vigilanting justice. They policed their own communities. But if
your communities are being policed by the lawlessness, by criminals,
by drug dealers, by junkies, well, people are gonna die.
People are gonna get killed. Then all of this, all
of the dirty dealings of this gun traced task force.

(57:45):
It was something smelled fishy. We'll see. And it all
started with a dea wired tap. The Drug Enforcement Administration
had been investigating a heroin ring and ball when they
picked up calls by the drug dealers in a voice

(58:05):
that sounded eerily familiar. That voice belonged to Mommadu Gandhu
or g Money. One of the police officers affiliated with
the gun traced Task Force asked as pass as fuck boy,
door pop, bitch, you.

Speaker 2 (58:24):
Do not run from Mamo du Mamadou Gondu, You do
not run.

Speaker 3 (58:31):
I got you.

Speaker 1 (58:32):
Listen to Gondhu, get on the ground, do it now
for gond oh Man. As agents dug deeper, they discovered
the Gandhu wasn't just leaking information right, He was an
active partner. He used his badge to extort dealers, shield
his friends, and coordinate home invasions with fellow police officers.

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Call the cops to fucking you're you call it cops
like hey, someone's breaking to my house, or like yeah,
we know that's us.

Speaker 2 (59:05):
If you're if you're crimeing a criminal, it's still a crime.
Two days before pay day hits us.

Speaker 1 (59:09):
We get it. We got that trying to hit a lick.
That discovery of Gondum or MoMA do Gondu Blue opened
the entire conspiracy associated with the Gun Trays Task Force
of the Baltimore Police Department. The FBI, UHH launched the
They joined the probe, launching an investigation so secretive that

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not even the Baltimore Police Commissioner was informed of the investigation.
Agents tracked officers with GPS devices, watched them clock into
shifts they never worked, and captured photos of them gambling
out of state while claiming overtime.

Speaker 3 (59:48):
Oops smoke weed every day.

Speaker 1 (59:52):
That's crazy. Fucking FBI went in deep dog.

Speaker 2 (59:56):
Ain't even tell them.

Speaker 1 (59:57):
I'm sure the FBI didn't have any fun on those trips.

Speaker 2 (01:00:00):
Oh yeah, not at all.

Speaker 1 (01:00:02):
I hit the back button on my browser, which I've
been having an infinite amount of troubles with the night
So what uh why would anything different happen?

Speaker 3 (01:00:14):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:00:17):
Surveillance also confirmed everything. The Gun Trace Task Force was
a criminal racket. In twenty seventeen, the FEDS moved in.
Detective Sean Suitor was no longer in the task Force,
but in twenty seventeen, he was formerly in the in
the task force left the task Force butt in twenty seventeen.

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He was subpoena to testify against his fellow officers from
the death from the Task Force, and he was going
to do that before a federal grand jury about a
twenty ten case involving Jenkins. The sergeant specifically a planted
gun and planted heroin that led to an arrest. The
day before he was scheduled to testify, Suitor was shot dead.

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He was on duty conducting a follow up in West Baltimore.
He radioed for backup. A minute later, he was found
in an alley with a single gunshot wounded the head.
The response was immediate and massive citywide lockdown, a dragnet
through the neighborhood, and a man hunt for a phantom
gunman in a black hoodie, but the suspect was never found.

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Then the facts began to contradict themselves a little bit.
Suitor's gun was used in his own murder. The bullet
entered from the front of a skull. There were no
DNA or fingerprints from anyone else were found on the
gun and on the weapon at the crime scene. The
neighborhood had dozens of closed circuit television cameras, none captured

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a fleeing suspect Suitor had told his wife earlier that
week that he had something important to tell her. After
a year long internal investigation, the department concluded it was
in fact a suicide, but Suitor's family and much of
the public believe he was murdered cold blood, possibly by
a fellow. The idea that a man set to testify
against the task Force died twenty four hours before his

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appearance is either an astronomical coincidence or a monumental cover
up of deadly proportions.

Speaker 2 (01:02:13):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:02:15):
In March twenty seventeen, eight of the Gun Trace Task
Force members well They were indicted on federal charges of racketeering, robbery, extortion,
and fraud six officers Jenkins, Allers, Gandhu, Hendrix, Ryam, and Ward.
They all pleaded guilty, with four cooperating against their colleagues,

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Daniel Hersel and Marcus Taylor fought the charges, but they
were convicted in February twenty eighteen after a dramatic trial
where drug dealers testified against them. A surreal role reversal
in the American justice system.

Speaker 2 (01:02:55):
Isn't that funny when the fucking drug dealers are the
ones that are credible, not so fun.

Speaker 1 (01:03:00):
When the rabbit has the gun is in pal Sentences
ranged from seven years, which is what Warden Hendricks got,
to twenty five years for Sergeant Jenkins. Other officers, like
Keith Gladstone, later pleaded guilty to related crimes, such as
planting a BB gun to cover up misconduct. Not a
BB gun.

Speaker 2 (01:03:20):
I've been shot by BB gun. I want a gun
that shoots out. Butterfinger, Bebes.

Speaker 1 (01:03:27):
Those things are fucking good. No, buddy, butter lay finger
a night butter finger, butterfinger, Bebes. Man. What about the crunches,
the little crunch balls?

Speaker 2 (01:03:36):
I like those two.

Speaker 1 (01:03:38):
What's your go to movie snacks?

Speaker 2 (01:03:40):
Oh that's a good question, man, movie snacks popcorn obviously. Yeah,
I'm not a huge popcorn fan. I like it at
the movie theater, and I like the top layer, and
then after that I'm over it. It gets stuck in
my teeth too much and it hurts my stomach. I'll
be farting like an old sick dog after a while.

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I've eating popcorn.

Speaker 1 (01:04:02):
Paisley eats popcorn and then she comes home and she
vomits all night, like she'll vomit all night. It's kind
of there's some there's a little comedic value to this.
Is sound like how violently ill she falls. But then
we go the we go to the movie theater and
we're like getting popcorn. You can't have any pays what

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you want. She's like, I don't care. I want to
throw up. I need to feel alive. She'll still eat
the popcorn.

Speaker 2 (01:04:33):
Besides the popcorn. I usually don't get anything else besides
of beer.

Speaker 1 (01:04:38):
Every time. I want a drunk every time. So I'll
get popcorn. I'll dumb Reese's pieces in it. Okay, okay's
good tandem. You get the salt sweet.

Speaker 2 (01:04:47):
I used to get snow caps, alright. I used to
get those a lot when I was younger.

Speaker 1 (01:04:51):
Those are fun. Those are good about milk duds, Man,
milk duds.

Speaker 2 (01:04:55):
That was That was the other one.

Speaker 1 (01:04:56):
Milk duds.

Speaker 2 (01:04:59):
Dot like something something I can get like a handful
of you know what I mean, and just fucking.

Speaker 1 (01:05:03):
Shovel it like you like dots. I like dots.

Speaker 2 (01:05:07):
I don't like that they get stuck in your fucking
teeth for days.

Speaker 1 (01:05:12):
Really, yeah, that's about it. They do get stuck in anything.
Anything that stuck sticks in my teeth. I hate it.
Bothers me. Yeah one time. Uh so, I mean, this
is my little brother. Our thing was to fill socks
full of ship and beat each other up with them.
And then one year, my mom just got us an
obnoxious amount of jelly beans and dots and we didn't

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like him. We didn't didn't like dots or Mike and
ikes ship like that. And that night my mom and
dad went to bed and we took my dad's socks
were on the floor. We filled them full of dots.
Do that would have hurt?

Speaker 2 (01:05:48):
These things are hurt so fucking bad on my neck.

Speaker 1 (01:05:53):
And we just proceeded to beat the ship out of
each other with the socks full of dots. Well, it's
like a fucking prison gang. The next day, my mom
did laundry and uh, she ran the dryer and then
she got the fucking the socks, came out there smoking oops,

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and uh, She's like what in the fucking dryer? And
my dad went out there. He's like, what's what's going on.
She's like, there's something, oh and she because she dump
like she turned the sock upside down and the fucking
dots and all liquefied.

Speaker 2 (01:06:32):
The hot dots are feet.

Speaker 1 (01:06:35):
Oops. Oh yeah, melt the dots.

Speaker 4 (01:06:41):
Man.

Speaker 1 (01:06:42):
My dad's like, what is that? And my mom was like,
it's your sock and he's like, I ain't my fucking sock.
There's only coming mine. The hot burrels are coming myself.
And I was like, I came in my lips quivered.
I'm like, I think I think we put candy in

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our clothes. You think.

Speaker 3 (01:07:09):
I think we put candy in our clothes?

Speaker 1 (01:07:12):
And my Dad's like, oh, I think I put them
all my Socks's just two fucking socks and they're all
fucked up, fucking full the dots. I rushed my mom
in the hospital. There's burning top of her foot off.
Oh fuck man, dude. My little brother was like, I
remember he was still sleeping and I had I had

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absorbed all that. Finally, my mom's like, what the what
is what were you guys doing songsfuls each other? What
did you say? Sosp dos right being each other up
socks showing the dots in the socks. You're Eastern candy.

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It was dude, I think I would have been kind
of proud of my kids. She was mad. It's a
weird thought, like why would.

Speaker 2 (01:08:10):
You think to do that?

Speaker 1 (01:08:10):
She was a big time mad.

Speaker 2 (01:08:11):
Yeah, I'm sure she was.

Speaker 1 (01:08:12):
I'm never getting a fucking easter basket, but the Easter
Monny brings the Eastern baskets. What are you telling me?
What are you trying to say? Mom? Can we talk
to the rabbit about this before we make any rash
decisions about easter baskets? Oh? Fuck sucks? What did you say?

Speaker 3 (01:08:38):
Ryan?

Speaker 1 (01:08:38):
Did it?

Speaker 3 (01:08:40):
Ryan? My brother's Kate.

Speaker 1 (01:08:44):
The twenty twenty two step Toe and Johnson LP report,
a five hundred and fifteen page deep dive, revealed that
Baltimore Police Department's failures, well, it did a long way.

Speaker 3 (01:08:56):
It went a long way.

Speaker 1 (01:08:57):
Towards enabling the scandal. Week leadership ignored complaints focus on
arrest numbers over accountability created incubators for corruption. The report
noted that the investigation was happenstance and luck as Baltimore
Police Department had no internal mechanisms to catch the task force.

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It recommended better hiring, training, and integrity stings to prevent
future scandals. Baltimore has paid around twenty two million dollars
in settlements, and as long as power goes unchecked, you're
going to keep on seeing things like jeez, it's crazy dude,
what is an integrity sting? Intangery sting? That's a good question.

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Integrity stings likely refer to sting operations conducted to test
the integrity of individuals or organizations, or to string ensemble
called integrity. Nope, that's not what I'm looking for. Purpose examples,
the Kentucky Lottery conducted sting operations to see if clerks
were properly cashing winning tickets. Okay, so I don't know

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how you would attempt a I guess a police officer.
You'd be like, hey man, I get a trunk full
of donuts, you fat fuck you chiloop a looking motherfucker.

Speaker 2 (01:10:14):
Integrity sting is like when in War in WCW when
Sting came to the ring wearing a sting mask and
then took it off, and it was a stingception takes
off his mask, he's wearing the Sting face paint underneath it.

Speaker 1 (01:10:29):
That was good, it was great, It was really good.
It's so stupid in hindsight, dumb as fuck. You see
what they did to Bill Goldberg for his retirement match.
They came off after twenty seconds and given a speech. Yeah,
he's a big time mat about that I'm sure he was,
but he's like, you know what, I'm a WCW guy.

Speaker 3 (01:10:44):
I don't care.

Speaker 1 (01:10:45):
He's right, yeah, oh yeah, all the cops are in jail.
Hopefully there's some foundational change there in the way the
Baltimore Police Department operates. But it just goes to show
you that, uh, not all police agencies are let's see
integral parts of the community.

Speaker 2 (01:11:06):
Yeah, you know those dudes they fucking put away to
the guy they got their fucking licks and in prison
against these fucking dudes.

Speaker 1 (01:11:12):
Oh, I had to have of course they did. Yeah,
and this stuff is and like they said, the investigation stated,
these guys would still be running amok doing their thing.
Have that wire tap never been placed by the DEA?
And if that, Mondu would have been fucking smart G
Money And he had like someone doing his bidding for

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him because he's being the head dude. You can't be
the one pulling the strings and calling the shots on
the phones like a fuck ed.

Speaker 2 (01:11:42):
Being a cop and having a nickname G Money is
kind of sus Anyways, I worked with the cops.

Speaker 1 (01:11:47):
Don't make that much money, so I worked with a
correction off. I think you called him. Oh, they can't.
They just called him Og. I can't remember his name,
but he was bringing drugs to an inmate, of course,
and the inmate had a cell phone. They found They
found the cell phone, and they saw that the cell

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phone would call two numbers, so they called the first number.
It was the inmate's momka. They called the second number,
and the correction officer OG answered like hello, oh shit,
and they're like, who's this. They're like, this is an
orangeal fucking road road whatever his name was. They're like, yeah,
you're gonna need to come to work and turn your
shit in because this is you.

Speaker 2 (01:12:28):
Know, that's a big old conflict of interest right there.

Speaker 1 (01:12:31):
A fucking idiot. Man, What the fuck are you doing? Dude?
Oh my gosh. Where there is law and order, there
is the opposite. There's distrust and unlawfulness and people just
simply trying to make money.

Speaker 2 (01:12:48):
That's what it's about.

Speaker 3 (01:12:49):
Man.

Speaker 1 (01:12:50):
Money is the root of all evil. Because I will
suck a dick for thirty thousand dollars. Boy, I wouldn't
kill someone for thirty thousand, No, no, no, it's not worth it.
But I would take a dick down or anywhere between
five and ten thousand dollars, I think, yeah, and I

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would do it so good. He would come back, he'd say, hey,
I know this was supposed to be a one time thing,
but I'd like to meet you up tomorrow night too,
And I would just go maybe, and I'd leave him hanging.
I'd leave him hanging, and I'd show up with a
fucking sock full of dots and juju be's juju bes.

Speaker 2 (01:13:36):
I feel like Mike and ikes would hurt really fucking bad,
because those are kind of hard.

Speaker 1 (01:13:39):
I'm gonna make you feel this. One thing he used
to piss my dad off more than anything is we'd
go into sock drawer and we'd get like twelve fifteen
tube socks and we'd ball them up. We'd shove them
all into one tube sock, and then we just annihilate
one another fucking sock dodgeball, and then all of his
socks and we'd gone, and he's like, where all my

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fucking songs at. Were like, they're all in one sock.
Don't worry, Dad, they're all clean that they're just all
in the same sock. I don't remember what we.

Speaker 2 (01:14:11):
Were doing, but one time we went through my parents
dresser drawers and we found a fucking coke tray and
a razor blade.

Speaker 1 (01:14:18):
To do this. We gotta get out of here, so
I snorted it and yeah, he told your brother like,
this is why you're fucking.

Speaker 2 (01:14:28):
Yeah, this is why I used to have a soft
spot to this day.

Speaker 1 (01:14:34):
This is where all your extra chromosomes came from. Boy.

Speaker 3 (01:14:42):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (01:14:43):
Anyways, we would love to meet you and your spouse,
your friends, your family. Hell, bring your mom and dad please,
We're gonna do a donkey show. Specifically, bring your dad.
We're gonna do a Mexican donkey show because I want
to touch him. That what's called a Mexican donkey show?
I think so Mexican donkey show.

Speaker 2 (01:15:03):
That's something we should have did on the cruise, went to the.

Speaker 1 (01:15:05):
Donkey show and Tijuana.

Speaker 2 (01:15:10):
I Ijuana.

Speaker 1 (01:15:13):
Donkey show. I think it's where we fuck a donkey
or you watch a girl get fucked by a donkey.
Either way, yeah, we'll fuck a donkey.

Speaker 2 (01:15:23):
If you come to the show, very person that shows up,
we'll fuck a donkey.

Speaker 1 (01:15:28):
Then you will put the link for the tickets in
the show description. Also, you can get a Brohio podcast
dot com slash tickets and follow the link there and
take you to our event event bright site. You can
get your tickets. There not many tickets left, so get
them before they're gone. And that's a rap. That's a wrap,
Wrap it up, wrap it up.

Speaker 3 (01:15:48):
All right, guys, have a great week.

Speaker 2 (01:15:50):
Bye.

Speaker 4 (01:15:52):
Hey, I want to see your dance.

Speaker 1 (01:16:13):
Take