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This is a short story about our relationship with our police officers in America.
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/2 On May 27, 1991, 14-year-old Konerak Sinthasomphone briefly escaped from notorious serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer.
Briefly.
He was drugged, semi-coherent, and bleeding from the rectum.
Briefly.
He was drugged, semi-coherent, and bleeding from the rectum.
/3 Milwaukee PD Officers John Balcerzak and Joseph T. Gabrish returned the boy, who was unable to speak coherently, to Dahmer. Dahmer convinced them that the boy was his 19-year-old lover.
/4 Gabrish and Balcerzak did not run Dahmer's information, which would have revealed he had been convicted of molesting the child's older brother. They did not investigate the odd smell they detected in Dahmer's apartment. Yes, it was the body of another victim.
/5 They returned the child to Dahmer.
Dahmer murdered, dismembered, and (according to some accounts) ate the child.
Dahmer murdered, dismembered, and (according to some accounts) ate the child.
/6 The officers ignored multiple witnesses who urged them not to return the child to Dahmer and in fact threatened to arrest them if they interfered. https://toofab.com/2020/06/19/white-cops-handed-a-dying-14-year-old-back-to-jeffrey-dahmer/
/7 Afterwards, on a recording, the officers can be heard joking about having to be deloused, and laughing about how they had resolved "boy-boy" trouble.
/8 Surprisingly, they were fired. Unsurprisingly, under their union's contract with the city, they were reinstated by a judge who said their termination was "shocking" to a "sense of fairness." They were awarded $55,000 back pay. https://www.nytimes.com/1994/04/28/us/victory-for-two-in-dahmer-case.html
/9 Officer Balcerzak leveraged resentment over his treatment -- the narrative of the liberal media biased against cops -- to become President of the Milwaukee Police Association.
