Cop Fired for Exposing Massive Police Sex Ring Including Children in ‘Explorers’ Program—Lawsuit

Gilroy, CA – A new lawsuit filed by a former employee is drawing attention to the Gilroy Police Department, amid accusations that high-ranking officials promoted an environment that was rife with sexual misconduct, which included everything from sex parties to inappropriate relations with underage members of the “Police Explorers” program.

After 25 years with the department, Patricia Harrell was fired from her position as a senior police communications supervisor in 2015, just three years before she was set to retire with full benefits. While she was allegedly fired for “improper conduct” with trainees, Harrell claims that she was just trying to warn them about the situation in the GPD, according to an explosive report from the Gilroy Dispatch.

Harrell’s lawsuit dropped the names of not only officers but several of their wives and girlfriends as well. She indicated that working for the police department equated with enduring years of unwanted advances, sexual impropriety on the part of officers, and retaliation when Harrell spoke out. The Gilroy Dispatch reported that Harrell’s claim in the lawsuit include:

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• Two officers “had sexual intercourse with members of the Gilroy Explorers, comprised of youth ranging in age from fourteen (14) to twenty-one (21). When their conduct came to light, [one] was demoted, but then ‘got his stripes’ back, while [the other] was allowed to resign.”
• “At office parties, GPD employees would throw their keys in a bowl and whoever pulled a key had sex with the person who owned the key.”
• The wife of an officer, who also was a department employee, proudly displayed her pierced genitalia to pool party guests, prompting several “mortified” mothers to leave with their children.
• That woman’s police officer husband, when they were engaged, “brought a Salinas police officer to ‘screw her’ while [he] watched. She later stated that she did not do it.”
• The same woman invited another officer to touch her breasts while they were in the Communications Center, and he did.
• The same GPD employee “kept a book in which she documented all of the sexual improprieties that occurred at the GPD, so that she could reveal the information should she ever be disciplined for her misdeeds. [She stated] ‘If she goes down, other people are going down with her.’ [She] also claimed that [her police officer husband] supported the fact that she was keeping a book.”
• At a Gilroy Police Officers’ Association Christmas party, “the female spouses [of two GPD officers] were outrageously intoxicated and were sexually touching both males and females including each other. Also, several people at the party were taking pictures of females exposing their private parts.”
• On a separate occasion, [an officer] showed sexually explicit photos that were inside a locker depicting GPD personnel groping [a communications staffer].”
• “For the first several years of his employment, [a male communications staffer] attempted to make sexual advances toward [Harrell] inviting her to come to his house…despite knowing [she] was married with 4 children.”
• The same man “engaged in sexual activity with other GPD officers and employees, and attempted to have sex with men by luring them to his house with the promise of ‘wild’ and ‘crazy’ women and alcohol. When women did not show up, [he] would tell the male guest, ‘Let’s get naked while we wait’.”

According to the Gilroy Dispatch, when Harrell approached her superiors about her department’s behavior—some of which may have been illegal—she was given so much over time, she became exhausted. Her lawyers point to the fact that she earned $22,000 in overtime in 2015 as proof the department was trying to punish her for speaking out.

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“Harrell claims she was harassed, threatened, investigated and reinvestigated, called names, subjected to unwanted sexual advances, disciplined, shunned, admonished, punished, overworked to the point of exhaustion, wrongly accused of wrongdoing and ultimately fired,” the report noted.

Harrell’s attorney, Andrea Justo, said, “These are very serious allegations…We hope the City of Gilroy and the Gilroy Police Department take them seriously.” She described her client as, “A very loyal employee for over 20 years” and indicated the allegations, “span that amount of time.”

One of the officers named in the lawsuit is Royce Heath who was demoted from Captain to Officer in January of this year for unspecified reasons.

Predictably, the Gilroy Police Department and the mayor are not commenting on the specifics of the alleged sexual misconduct. Mayor Roland Velasco expressed his confidence in Chief Scot Smithee and called the lawsuit Harrell’s “side of the story.”

Smithee broke his silence after the story broke Thursday and on Friday issued a statement saying, “The Gilroy Police Department is full of caring and dedicated public servants. I am proud of our strong history of community service and keeping the public safe. We are determined to maintain our focus on serving the community in a professional and ethical manner.”

Harrell is a wife of 29 years and a mother of four. She had worked for the Gilroy Police Department since 1990. Harrell lost her job in 2015 after warning trainees about certain officers presumably named in the lawsuit. The department apparently considered warning young recruits of sexual predators on the force as grounds for dismissal.

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In addition to the city and the police department, Harrell is suing the police union, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, for not supporting her claimed of wrongful termination. Harrell is seeking an unspecified amount in damages.

DNC Lawsuit Attorneys Fear for Their Lives, Call for Court Protection, Citing Mulitple Suspicious Deaths

While the rest of the United States seems fixated on this week’s Senate hearing testimony of U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions (to discuss his involvement in the pseudo-scandal which is the meddling of the Russians in the presidential election of 2016) lawyers suing the DNC for fraud have asked for special protection for their lives.

The sheer number of plaintiffs are too many to mention in this article. The original motion to sue the Democratic National Committee and Debbie Wasserman Schultz can be seen by clicking here. They allege, thanks to leaked DNC emails published by Wikileaks, that the DNC and former Chairwoman Wasserman-Schultz actively discriminated against Senator Bernie Sanders as a DNC candidate.

All the plaintiffs who contributed to Sanders’ campaign, are members of the Democratic Party, and allege the DNC committed fraud by actively working against Sanders to help Hillary Rodham Clinton win the Democratic nomination as a presidential candidate. But that’s just the beginning. Now they’re saying they’re in fear for their lives, and they’ve described the strange things happening to some of them.

On Tuesday, six plaintiffs filed requests for special protection. Carol Wilding of Dassel, MN, a plaintiff in the case, filed a motion for special protection services. She stated in court documents someone tampered with her laptop. The computer had been moved from the mud room to the living room and placed on an end table, something she says she wouldn’t have done since she has special needs.

After picking up the laptop, the bottom of it fell open, because 10 screws had been removed. At about the same time, she noticed the doors leading into her home through her screen porch were open, and the sliding door to the home was ajar. She called the police and filed a report.

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Wilding’s request for protection was the latest in a string of court filings by plaintiffs asking for special protection by the court. Four other requests were sealed by the courts and the details are unknown at this time. The first came from Florida resident Carol Wilding, of the Beck & Lee law firm.

Wilding’s employer represents some of the plaintiffs in the case against the DNC. In the court filing, she said someone called the office with a voice-masking device, and another stranger actually paid a visit to her mother’s home. The woman stated she was there to see Wilding, and asked for her by name. When her mother told her she wasn’t home, the lady left a Florida Democratic Campaign Committee “Vote-by-Mail” application with her mother.

In spite of the fact the woman had a stack of the registration forms, she did not visit any other home in the neighborhood and left as a passenger in a gray vehicle with tinted windows driven by someone else. Wilding also asked for special protection from the court.

It isn’t the first time those connected to the DNC Fraud lawsuit have been threatened or even killed. The process server, Shawn Lucas, was mysteriously found dead in 2016. He may have even known it was coming, as he actually filmed the serving of the lawsuit court documents while standing inside the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington, DC.

Here’s where it gets even more real. This week, Jared Beck, husband of Elizabeth Beck (principal lawyers in the lawsuit and founders of JamPac, the group suing the DNC and Wasserman-Schultz) recorded his request for special protection by the courts. In a Facebook livestream, Beck issued the following statement:

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After much consideration and deliberation, we have concluded that it is time to bring these concerns to the court’s attention. As such, today we filed a motion asking judge William Zloch to issue an order providing protection of the plaintiffs, their counsel and their families, as well as all potential witnesses in the DNC Fraud lawsuit. In support of this motion, we have cited the following events: the untimely death of our process server Shawn Lucas, the unsolved murder of DNC employee Seth Rich. We believe Mr. Rich might have been a potential witness in this case. We’ve also cited the recent untimely death of federal prosecutor Beranton Whisenant of South Florida. Also recent bizarre and disturbing conduct including threats that has been directed at plaintiffs their counsel and employees, and we’ve also cited an offer to provide security by the Oathkeepers and it’s president Stuart Rose.

I am not suicidal. If my body washes up somewhere, it was not a suicide.

— Jared Beck (@JaredBeck) May 27, 2017

Beck cited three people who are no longer alive. Beranton J. Whisenant Jr., 37, was found dead at the end of May on a beach in Miami. He was working on the case.

Rich, as The Free Thought Project recently reported, is believed by many to be the person responsible for leaking the DNC’s email database to Wikileaks. And Lucas, found dead on 8/2/16 was just doing his job as a process server to legally inform the DNC of their being named as a defendant in the election rigging/fraud lawsuit.

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The bodies are stacking up, and now the plaintiffs in the case are in fear for their lives. If this isn’t newsworthy to the mainstream media, one must ask the question why.

VIDEO: Crazed Sheriff Attacks Innocent College Kid, Then Threatens Cop Who Stopped It

Ellis County, TX — In April, Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey signed into law a “Blue Lives Matter” bill which bumps up the penalty for striking an off-duty police officer from a potential misdemeanor to a felony. But the following story coming out of Texas serves to illustrate just how awful the law will likely be for those who find themselves in a scuffle with a cop after hours.

Ellis County Sheriff Johnny Brown, along with his brother Bobby, were celebrating his recent re-election this past New Years with a trip to a nearby Midlothian Whataburger. After allegedly pulling up too closely to another vehicle, words were exchanged with the driver and other occupants.

The heated argument led into the burger joint and escalated to a point where Bobby, the Sheriff’s brother, decided he’d had enough jaw jacking, and took a swing at 21-year-old Caleb Tomgenovich, initiating an attack which appeared one-sided. The brothers were on a rampage.

Seeing his brother Bobby hurting a fellow citizen, Sheriff Brown jumped right in, punching one of Tomgenovich’s friends in the face. After the melee, police arrived and broke it up, but not before Midlothian Police Officer Aaron Walters had a few critical words for the Sheriff.

Walters commanded Sheriff Brown to leave the restaurant and to stop trying to intimidate a female witness by standing over her.

Get out of the store right now! You don’t stand over her like that, and try to intimidate her!

After Brown left the burger joint, he didn’t go quietly. As he walked passed Walters he threatened him by saying, “If you worked for me, you’d be fired.” To which Walters fired back, “I don’t care who you are!. Stop trying to intimidate me!”

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When apparent intimidation tactics didn’t work, Sheriff Brown then turned to insults. “You’re an arrogant little f**k is what you are!” He added, “And I hope that camera’s on!” Walters confidently reassured him, “Oh it is! It is!”

The attack, threats, intimidation, and insults all led the Midlothian Police Department to charge the two brothers with misdemeanor assault. In a plea deal with prosecutors, Sheriff Brown decided to resign and surrender his peace officer’s license, ending his law enforcement career.

The whole caught-on-camera incidents serves to highlight potential problems states like Arizona will encounter when police officers get out of line while off-duty. Arguably, if it hadn’t been for the dashcam footage (which Sheriff Brown was so afraid of) the whole incident could have ended with the college students being charged with felony assault on a police officer.

Laws such as the so-called “Blue Lives Matter” legislation, albeit well-intentioned, effectively create a new and protected class of citizens; law enforcement. In an era where police officers are seldom disciplined, hardly ever charged with criminal activity, and who rarely serve any jail or prison time (even in the most egregious of cases) what America needs is stricter accountability, not special protection under the law.

From his perspective, Tomgenovich told reporters he’s pleased Sheriff Brown lost his job as Sheriff. He said not even his mother believed the Sheriff attacked him first, at least until she saw the footage for herself.

Unfortunately, we see these types of incidents daily at The Free Thought Project. And we’ll continue to serve as a police accountability site. To you, Officer Walters, who didn’t let the Sheriff’s status prevent you from doing your job; We salute you.

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‘Drop that Slurpee!’: Parents Furious After They Say Cops Pulled Guns on Children for Playing

Virginia Beach, VA — It has happened again. We first told you the story about several Black youth playing basketball when a police officer rolled up in his cruiser and pointed his gun at the boys demanding they get on the ground. Now, it has happened to another group of boys…this time in Virginia Beach.

According to the allegations leveled at police by Damien Jackson, 12, Ken Sedlack, 13, Davian Jackson, 12, and Maurice Victoria, 14, the boys were sitting in the backyard of a home where one of their fathers, Ken Sedlack 43, had been working. They say they were playing soccer and drinking Slurpees while Ken made a run to the hardware store for supplies.

The kids accompanied Ken’s father to go and work on the home which was in need of repair. They’re reportedly all honors students and their school, which is in another district, was on Spring Break. They also play travel soccer.

According to The Virginian-Pilot, the boys were confronted by a neighbor who asked if they had permission to be at the home. They said they did and went back to playing. One of the boys needed to use the restroom so he crawled through an open window to get inside the locked home. While inside, he opened the door for the other boys to come inside.

After being inside for a while, playing video games on their phones wasn’t much fun any longer, so Maurice and Ken went into the backyard to play soccer. Damien went to the carport and listened to music, while Davien, his twin brother, stayed inside to keep playing video games.

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Police first approached Davien. “I heard a voice real loud say, ‘Come here!’ I saw three cops with guns and one cop without a gun,” he told reporters. He said a cop came in the house and yelled, “Hey!”, pointing his gun to Damien’s chest the entire time. Damien noticed the officer’s finger was on the trigger.

“I was shocked he was pointing a gun at me…I was like, ‘Whoa!’ ” said the sixth grader. Officers then moved to the backyard where they found the other two boys. Maurice said one of the officers yelled at him, “Hey! Big guy!” Maurice is six feet two inches tall, but hardly any match for a seasoned officer — as he is still only a child.

“He said, ‘Drop the Slurpee!’” he told reporters. He admitted, “I didn’t see the gun, but they (the other boys) all told me about it.” Maurice said he was so scared he put down the offending slurpee, lowered his head, and got on his knees, placing his hands in the air.

Ken, too, was holding an offensive object in his hands, a soccer ball. “I still had the soccer ball in my hand…He pointed the gun at me and said, ‘Drop the ball!’ … All I saw was that finger on the trigger,” Ken told the press. All the boys were rounded up and taken to the front of the house where they were forced to sit in a circle while police determined if they were legally allowed to be at the home.

After a brief conversation, police then called Ken on the phone to determine for what reason the boys were present at the home during school hours. The explanation was satisfactory for the police, who explained school was not out for students in their district, and they proceeded on their way.

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But Ken wasn’t done with the officers. Upon learning at least one of the officers pointed his weapon at the children, with his finger supposedly on the trigger and the gun pointed at their chest and their head, he filed a complaint against the officers. Ken along with little Ken’s mother, Georgina Vazquez, filed complaints.

An internal affairs investigation was opened. The Virginian-Pilot filed a Freedom of Information Act request to receive body cam footage but the request was denied as the boys involved are all minors.

The newspaper spoke with Lt. Johnny Gandy, a police spokesman, who said the incident was one of three which occurred at about the same time. The Virginian-Pilot reported;

Gandy, the police spokesman, said there were two 911 calls that day that led police to the house. One was for an armed robbery involving multiple juvenile suspects in the 4800 block of North Witchduck Road. The area is 1.3 miles from Sedlack’s house.

Gandy said the call came in at 12:31 p.m., which was about a half-hour before the officers arrived at Sedlack’s home. An incident report said that the call came in at 12:50 p.m. and that no weapon was involved. An 18-year-old and two 16-year-olds were later charged, Gandy said.

The other call, at 12:47 p.m., was for a possible trespassing in the 400 block of Declaration Road, Gandy said. That’s where the home owned by Sedlack is located. No report was filed, he said.

Contrary to what the boys allege, Gandy retorted, “No officer is going to point a gun at a kid kicking around a soccer ball.” Unfortunately, Mr. Gandy, we here at The Free Thought Project, beg to differ.

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As we’ve reported, police hardly need a reason to point their loaded weapons at anyone. They do so at will, every day. All of which serves to highlight our contention that no officer should be allowed to point a loaded weapon at anyone, anytime, unless of course, another person is pointing a weapon at them.

Critics would contend doing so would place police officers in harm’s way unnecessarily. But when statistics show that less than 100 of the over 1 million full-time police officers die from gun violence, there’s hardly a reason at all to point a loaded weapon at anyone, unless you’re trying to kill them. In fact, more officers die in car crashes and from natural causes than die from violent crimes. In other words, driving recklessly to a scene where kids are playing soccer, video games, and listening to music, is much more dangerous than a kid holding a slurpee or a soccer ball. Keep your guns holstered. Garbage truck drivers have more dangerous jobs.

As TFTP has reported, more than 1,000 people die every year when officers shoot them. Children who are playing basketball in the front yard, or soccer in the backyard, pose no threat to anyone and should be treated as children, not criminals. Speaking about his experience with police pointing their weapons at him, Damien said he used to respect officers, “But not anymore. Not after what happened. Now I’m just scared of them.”