While Republicans try and convince us that pedophiles are hiding at drag shows, real
predators are hiding in establishments that they claim to love, like the police.
This week, the city of Santa Monica made a massive payout in a lawsuit
against a former tech worker who was on police payroll, and who,
during his time on police payroll, abused over 200 children.
That's right, his name is or Was, and we'll talk about that Eric Uller,
who worked as a civilian employee for the Santa Monica Police Department for
three decades, and he participated in a program that
was called the Police Activities League, which is actually still active.
Here's a picture from their website.
And they described themselves as offering free after-school programs for
youth ages 6 to 17 who live or attend public school in the city of Santa Monica.
They provide leadership enhancement, fitness training, bridge the gap
between youth and law enforcement in a friendly and positive environment.
Yeah, that kind of environment.
Uller joined the program in the 80s and according to the LA Times,
the abuse started almost immediately.
He would do a lot of things like use his access to the police,
even though he himself was not a cop, to lure kids with things that
generally interest kids, like cool police stuff, right?
This is one of the John Doe's, and the victims are not being named,
who says he bribed me with money, baseball cards, Dodger tickets, lunch.
One of the hundreds of former Pal youth who accused Uller of repeated rape and
sexual abuse over two years said he also pretended like he was a cop.
So this is according to some of his victims, this is jumped on to four.
He says some of Uller's victims recalled he would even turn
on the police lights and siren as he drove them home,
further enforcing the idea he was a cop working under the color of authority.
Documents summarizing his victim's account reveal this is according to another
witness or a victim says he was 12 when he met Uller, who drove him and
other boys around in his Chevy Suburban, which was outfitted with a police radio,
or in an unmarked police car given to him by the department.
He recalls Uller having a badge and handcuffed and
said he even left a gun on the car seat.
Once everyone thought he was a police officer.
Now it's important to remember that who he preyed on.
Current City Council member Oscar de la Torre says in this city,
this is a black and brown part of the neighborhood.
No one in government was watching out for our kids.
The Pico neighborhood was marginalized in that era.
So that's overall what happened.
There's a lot more detail, and I wanna get into a little bit of it, but
I do want to say that over the decades, multiple people,
they happen to both be women, one who worked with the Pal.
Again, this sort of after-school program trying to build trust with law
enforcement, flagged that this guy Uller was spending a lot of time with kids,
in fact, a little bit too much time with them.
And then another was a detective, a woman also, who later, many years later,
said that this is something fishy going on, said to her supervisor,
none of it was investigated.
None of it.
Before I kick it to you, Cenk, a little bit more.
He preyed on these, again, young, mostly black and brown kids and threatened them.
So graphic seven, I could say nothing because my family would go to jail.
It was as if he could get away with whatever he wanted.
Another victim alleged that Uller began abusing him as a teenager after he was
arrested by the Santa Monica police.
As a young man struggled with other run-ins with the law,
he was forced to submit to sex acts with Uller.
According to his court claim records, the unspoken threat is,
if I didn't go along with Eric, I would go to jail.
Yeah.
Now what finally changed?
What happened?
Well, it seems like they found something on his computer.
So retired Santa Monica police Lieutenant Greg Slaughter, who headed
the department's communication center where Uller was the lead systems analyst,
said that one morning in the early 2000s again,
this is a couple of decades after he started.
A supervisor turned on a computer for work, and
child pornography popped up on the screen.
Slaughter said he immediately ordered an investigation, which led to Uller, but
he was never interviewed regarding the allegations.
Slaughter told a sheriff's investigator that Uller reported directly to the chief
of police, James Butts.
The rank structure was overlooked for Eric's behalf,
Slaughter said in the sheriff's report.
I just wanna say that that man, James Butts,
who was the former head of the Santa Monica police, what is he doing now?
He's the Mayor of Inglewood.
Anyway, Cenk, I just want to kick it to you because
there's a lot here, decades of impunity and victims.
>> So let's start with this.
Our right-wing media show is talking about pedophilia and groomers nonstop.
Well, to be fair to them, they are, right?
So are they talking about this case?
One of the worst cases of pedophilia potentially in American history,
as far as I can tell, not a single right-wing host has picked up this case.
I don't watch them all and look easy to prove me wrong,
especially before we make this video and embarrass them, right?
Show me videos they did before this or articles they wrote about this.
So why am I making that point?
Cuz they don't give a damn about pedophilia.
They're sick people that use kids as a prop to attack people and
spread their hatred.
Pedophiles and groomers.
Don't go to Drag Queen Story Hour.
They don't go dancing around with drag queens trying to draw attention to
themselves.
Where do they go?
They go to where they have easy targets and
where they know they'll be protected no matter what they do.
It's not an accident that there were thousands of cases
inside the Catholic Church.
Easy targets.
Kids who are told they must trust authority figures and
do whatever they say.
And then a clergy that protects them, that protects the pedophiles and the groomers.
Is right-wing media talking nonstop about the goddamn Catholic Church and
the pedophiles?
Nope.
Where else would you go?
A police program that is supposed to help underprivileged kids,
some of whom are undocumented.
Their families are undocumented,
thereby making them perfect targets of a pedophile like this.
Because then he could hold it over their heads.
He could say, I'm gonna have your parents deported.
I'm gonna have them put in prison, etc.
And as Francesca explained, by the way,
almost always female cops, but give them credit.
They turn them in nearly half a dozen times.
They're like, we've got him.
Graphic descriptions from boys he liked to target,
boys who were twelve to 15 years old that he thought were the most vulnerable.
But he would go as young as eight.
And every time they're like, nope, not gonna investigate him.
Do you wanna know why?
Cuz he helped the cops fix their computers.
The computers would often break down, and he was really good at fixing them,
and he was really good at doing databases that they could use.
Get a load of this.
He was in charge of the criminal database to track criminals, and
he was probably the largest criminal in Santa Monica.
>> Also, lots of updated their traffic system, so I'm sure many people,
if you got a ticket in Santa Monica in the last 30 years, hey,
you got to thank a pedophile for that one.
That's fun.
So disgusting.
I do wanna just mention that on the day he was supposed to appear in court,
this was 2018, he was charged with multiple counts of lewd acts to a child.
Six people came forward to testify he was found dead by
suicide in his Marina del Rey apartment.
Actually a telltale sign in a lot of these massive pedophilia cases.
I don't know if you guys remember a man who worked with Larry Nasser.
I believe in girls' gymnastics.
Was it Nasser?
I think it was, yes.
He also was found dead.
So anyway, it doesn't mean that these victims still don't deserve justice.
And it doesn't mean that this incredible payout is not still warranted.
$42.6 million to settle this case.
>> By the way, all the cases combined is over $220,000,000.
And did this son of bitch pay, by the way?
No.
Did the cops who protected him for decades pay?
No.
We have to pay.
The citizens have to pay for this sick pervert to molest our own kids.
Okay, and is anybody outraged by it?
Yeah, the people who put them away, thank God.
They found him dead.
Good, I'm glad.
Okay, so if you wanna cry about that, go cry about that.
At least there's a little bit of justice in that.
But do I see outrage in all the media of all the people who pretend to care about
pedophiles?
No, they don't give a damn.
They don't care about the kids at all.
They're just like, grab a kid, use it as a human shield, and
we'll pretend it's about them and then spew hatred against everybody.
Pretend it's like LGBTQ people that are doing it when it's like Boy Scouts,
Catholic Church, cops.
And then what do they say?
Thin blue line.
We have to protect cops no matter what.
And anyone fixing cops' computers have to be protected over and over again.
God damn it.
A kid said that he did this thing.
That is outrageous.
Aren't you gonna do anything?
He did you a favor?
He would do all the cops favors nonstop.
Of course, when you're raping little kids, you want the cops on your side.
He'd brag about the pictures that he has with cops all the time, and
he'd put them all around.
So he had easy access and complete protection from the cops themselves.
The biggest gang.
God damn it.
That's disgusting.
Do you actually care about kids at all?
And now, of course, you know what the answer is.
In politics, no one who talks about kids actually cares about them.
It's disgusting.