Police in Fairfax County Virginia are facing a serious lawsuit for
allegedly protecting a sex trafficking ring in exchange for
free sex from the victims, the trafficked women.
The lawsuit names the former Fairfax County Police Chief, Ed Roessler,
as a defendant in this lawsuit, alleging that he helped cover up for
the officers when another detectives work threatened to expose their wrongdoing.
The suit was filed on behalf of a Costa Rican woman identified in
the lawsuit only as Jane Doe.
It says that the officers would tip off the trafficking ring to
suspend its advertisements on sites like backpage.com in advance
of sting operations run by the police.
And so the woman who came forward noted that she was basically contacted,
told that she could come to the United States to work as an escort.
And so she obviously is in a terrible economic situation considered it comes to
the United States.
Her passport was allegedly immediately taken away from her and
she was forced into the sex industry, sex trafficking.
And now there's been enough of an investigation to find,
prosecute, and convict the head of that sex trafficking ring,
I have more details, but Jack, why don't you jump in?
So, look, there's a criminal wrongdoing, I believe,
on the part of the police here in this case,
there was a civil suit against the person who ran this and
it's a porn and the person that was involved
that is bringing both matters to the forefront here says,
they told me that I was gonna go and be an escort.
Now she's honest about that.
But for wealthy individuals and it was to date them.
Now, maybe she was naive, maybe she was not quite so naive, but
thought it was high end and, I don't judge anybody.
But instead, they took the passport away and
then they threatened them instantly and forced them into this trade.
And we're on average,
they were forced to have sex with 17 different clients per day.
Okay, now when the police see this, are we ready for police to protect and
serve us from the community, et cetera?
Don't be ridiculous.
They think, how could I be number 18?
And that is part of what leads to this story.
>> So let's talk a little bit about who these cops are,
luckily they're no longer with the force.
But what I found fascinating about this story was the lawyer representing
the woman who came forward, was trying to work with the Police Department,
not just for some sort of financial settlement, but for
accountability towards the two cops who are implicated in this.
And they basically told him to kick rocks.
Now, when lawyer Victor Glasberg,
that's the one representing Jane Doe in this story.
When he first filed the lawsuit, he did not know the identities of the officers
who were allegedly involved because his client was never able to learn their
names, but then he later obtained a court order requiring the Police department to
identify the officers described in the complaint.
Police responded with two names, Michael Barbazette and Jason Mardocco.
Neither of them remains on the force, but that is one part of the problem.
The bigger part of the problem is what we see in many police stories that we cover
on this show.
Usually stories involving excessive force.
The Department seems to have covered up the wrongdoing and
when there was a detective who was working to uncover what was really going on,
that detectives work was immediately put to a stop.
So as detective William Wolf pressed his efforts to investigate,
he said he was threatened by high ranking officers.
He said he even received a call from Roessler,
that's the police chief who has since stepped down by the way,
whose voice he recognized, even though he did not identify himself saying, quote,
I need to make sure you're willing to play ball, according to the lawsuit.
>> Of course, thin blue line.
We're supposed to stop the criminals unless we are the criminals.
In which case we invented a thing called thin blue line,
that means you never turn evidence on a fellow cop,
no matter how criminal their actions are, your bosses protect you and
you do whatever you need you to do, to rob and take advantage of the citizens.
And then by the way, declares thin blue line in the open and
have half the country go, that makes sense.
When cops are criminals, they should protect their criminal racket.
How does that make sense?
No thin blue line should be a really offensive concept to everyone else
because it's a clear reference to covering up criminality on the part of
some police officers, including taking advantage of women who
are basically kidnapped into slavery here in America.
Yeah, and it is fascinating that we have a giant group of
people in this country who base all of their politics on this
conspiracy of a democrat run child sex trafficking ring.
And then when you see stories like this, I know it's not involving children as far as
we know, it's involving adult women, but
when you see stories of human trafficking in the United States that are proven,
there's no big deal about it, you don't hear about it.
This was like a small story reported by the Associated Press,
barely getting any attention.
It's incredible stuff.
>> Yeah, I mean look, it goes on and on, last week Gallon Maxwell sentenced,
Trump wished her well on several occasions, they were good friends.
Obviously Trump was huge friends with Jeffrey Epstein for 15 years and said he
likes his girls young, he knew what he was doing, didn't mind any of that, here
the cops are having sex with the women they're supposed to be protecting and.
>> Are raping them, basically.
>> And the band marches on and half the country goes, yeah, I cannot stand it.
Child sex trafficking or any of that kind of sex trafficking.
My guys are doing it, rock and roll, thin blue line, thin Trump line, baby.
So which one is it?
And they're never gonna give you a straight answer any of this.
Of course we need better accountability.
And I'm glad that the people who are covering up criminality are now gone,
not just two guys who are doing it, but.
By the way, can I talk, funny last asterix to this story.
The cops in the union pulled them in that area.
They thought the leader that was covering up
the criminality was not covering it up enough.
They thought he was too soft, he was too transparent.
They're like, what, you just covered up our crimes.
That's all?
They were outraged.
And they turned on him too.
And that's why he lost his job.
Because they thought generally speaking the union vote showed that the rest of
the cops thought he should have done a better job of covering their tracks when
they break the law.
>> That's right.
>> Amazing.