There was another Swat murder last month in Tulsa. Russell Doza, 49, was the victim of the new American style of policing: Which is not so much malicious as it is a crude mix of self dramatization and brazen incompetence.
Doza is survived by a memo from the Oklahoma City office of the FBI that alleges that the Rogues Motorcycle Club intends “to retaliate for the shooting of one of the club members by the Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office.” He left behind hardly anything to show for his life except a motorcycle and a couple hundred mourning friends. And, of course a pool of blood on a floor.
Right now the Tulsa Police Department is investigating that puddle of blood out of existence. The leaked FBI memo is part of that clean up. The conclusion of the investigation will probably be that Russell Doza got what he deserved.
So far the cops are right about at least one thing. Somebody should retaliate. The Department of Justice should retaliate. The ACLU should retaliate. Anybody who gives a damn about truth, justice or the American way should retaliate. Anybody who can still manage to say, “truth, justice and the American way” without smirking should retaliate.
The retaliation should be that the three Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office (TCSO) Deputies who pulled their triggers and the Tulsa County Sheriff, Stanley Glanz, and Brad Henry, the Governor of Oklahoma, should all have their front doors kicked in and be arrested some dawn. The arrests should be as punitive, humiliating, brutal and unexpected as possible.
Then after the governor flips – and he will flip – a RICO indictment should be contrived so that another fifty-five or sixty cops can have their doors kicked in. Their wives and their children should be terrified to the maximum extent possible. Their personal assets should be seized. They should all be thrown into cages and made to beg their elderly parents for bail. The bails should be set at just slightly more than the parents can afford. All of these defendants should be assigned complacent public defenders and after rotting away in jail for four or six or eight or ten months they should all be offered plea deals. The ones who insist on protesting their innocence should get the stiffest sentences.
The retaliation should be like that. Then, maybe Russell Doza will rest in his grave.
Who Died
Russell Doza was a biker archetype. He grew up in Girard, in southeastern Kansas. His childhood was comparatively disadvantaged. He became estranged from his family and according to news accounts in Kansas he “moved around between several northeastern Oklahoma towns.” About twenty-five years ago he began moving around with other bikers. He met his long-time friend Ramona Gregory then, too.
“He was a gypsy kind of guy,” Gregory told the Tulsa World. “He didn’t have a place to call his own. He had his (Rogue Motorcycle Club) brothers. The club was his family.”
Doza was light on the world. He did not leave behind many tracks. He was featured in a story in a local paper in 2001 about the Rogues bringing Christmas gifts and Christmas dinner to a severely injured Tulsa boy and his family. “Something we couldn’t pass up,” Doza told the paper. “The opportunity to help one needy child. That’s what we’re all about, anyway.”
He was convicted of selling drugs while in possession of a firearm and he spent a year in prison before his conviction was overturned. And, he was disabled. He made his way with the help of his friends but he was slightly disabled.
High Risk Dynamic Entry
Doza died in the course of a “high risk,” “dynamic entry” service of a search warrant for methamphetamine and marijuana. The choice to serve this warrant in this way was self-evidently specious.
Service of the warrant was “high risk” because it was executed on the Rogues’ clubhouse. The Rogues, themselves, were considered dangerous because years of “intelligence” and official reports published by both state and federal report writers had alleged that they were dangerous. It is common in the prosecution and harassment of motorcycle clubs for experienced investigators to conflate accusation, generalization, suspicion and probable cause. And, sometimes cops just manufacture the unverifiable observations that result in “reasonable articulable suspicion” and the entrapments that lead to probable cause.
Sometimes the game between cop and cop victim is entirely semantic. Cops know what judges want to hear. Defendants do not. Usually what judges want to hear are specific words and phrases that turn accusations into magic spells.
Singing A Spell
The affidavit that supported the search warrant on the Rogues club house was a magic spell that was intended to make this service “high risk.” The supporting affidavit and the internal, officially secret, paper trail within the TCSO describes the club house as fortified; predicts firearms on the premises; predicts the presence of military weapons and ordinance on the premises; describes what is officially “sophisticated counter-surveillance,” which is to say that there were security cameras; and suggests that the club house might be booby-trapped.
All of this ass-covering mumbo-jumbo was further supported by pretentiously documented surveillance including photographs and insider information from a “confidential informant.” The warrant service was executed at “about seven-oh-six” in the morning, as a shaken police spokesman described it.
Technically this was a “knock and enter” warrant. Executing the warrant when everyone was asleep guaranteed that none of those inside the structure would have time to respond. And, that lack of response was half of the indispensible magic that allowed this Swat team to make a “dynamic entry.” Dynamic entry is the police euphemism for what they do when they break in through your doors and windows, toss “flash-bang,” smoke and gas grenades around like waffle balls and routinely kill your pets.
The magic words that allow for dynamic entry in the execution of a search warrant for drugs are “preservation of evidence.” The legal theory is that unless police enter immediately Sweet Sweetback and his militant “soul brothers” are likely to flush their “stash of pot” down the toilet. The public relations reason, which is all you are likely to read or see on television, is that local police officers must use military “shock and awe” against American citizens so that the police can be protected from the people.
The People’s Court
Police everywhere have embraced new media so it is not surprising to discover a Facebook page titled “I Support The TCSO Deputies.” After Doza’s murder, comments on the page enthusiastically endorsed his execution. “Warrant Service Ends With One (Bad Guy) Dead,” a headline announced. “My prayers are with the deputies who put their life on the line, and I am glad they made it home to their families. My prayers are with you,” one fan of the page wrote.
“Good job guys!! Glad the good guys didn’t get hurt,” a pretty woman added.
Another woman agreed, “Great job guys. Stay safe out there!”
There are 833 fans of the TCSO and it seems not to have occurred to any of them that Russell Doza’s life was at least as valuable as the lives of the men who killed him. Most of them would probably be shocked by the notion that rootless, drifting, self-sufficient, anti-authoritarian, anti-materialistic, generous, honorable Russell Doza might be more important to the salvation of America’s soul that any number of Tulsa County Sheriffs. “Great job,” another fan wrote about Doza’s death. “God bless TCSO.”
Ironically, many police cars in many parts of America still wear a slogan on their sides which reads, “To Protect and Serve.” And many very young and very old Americans still think the slogan refers to the duty of police to protect and serve the public rather than the other way around. And, that is only one of many ideas about the mission and responsibility of Swat that has been turned on its head since a cop named Pat McKinley invented the Los Angeles Police Department Special Weapons And Tactics (S.W.A.T.) Team forty-five years ago.
Swat Classic
The original concept of Swat, during the quasi-revolutionary 1960s, was to provide Los Angeles with a viable response to snipers – like the handful of murderous psychopaths who popped up during that decade. Swat was also trained to rescue hostages and provide an efficient response to situations like the Symbionese Liberation Army shootout. The Swat concept “evolved,” McGinley later wrote, to become a way “to reduce risk to the police forces involved, to the suspects and to the community at large.”
McKinley went on to become Chief of the Fullerton, California Police Department. In 2002, he was one of the authors of an evaluation of Swat deployments in California named after the State Attorney General at the time, a man named Bill Lockyer.
The Lockyer Report: “Was precipitated by a tragic death of a young male during a Swat operation. This death, though accidental, compelled law enforcement to engage in critical self-analysis with respect to the utilization of Swat teams. The Commission was deeply moved when this victim’s family appeared at the Commission’s public hearing. The Commission pledged to the family, to the Attorney General, and to the people of California that something constructive and lasting would come from their tragedy.”
“Law enforcement operations are not military operations,” the report states bluntly. “There is not an acceptable level of casualties, particularly of innocent bystanders.” The point of Swat, its inventor believed, was to keep dangerous suspects from escaping while “trained hostage negotiators” used “verbal tactics.” When a Swat team behaves professionally, the report argued, “Seldom are physical tactics necessary, and even then the actual firing of shots rarely occurs.”
New Improved Swat Heavy Duty
In the eight years since the Lockyer Report was published in California, other states have remained blind to the excesses of Swat.
There is no national consensus on what a Swat team even is let alone how and when one should be properly used. There is not even a consensus in Tulsa County which has both a city Swat team and a county Swat team. Nationally, Swat operational plans are often a ludicrous parody of the kind of cop speak Mike Judge satirized in Idiocracy. Their deployment is casual. And, their tactics and weapons are military tactics and weapons that are appropriate if the idea is to find, engage and kill an enemy but absolutely wrong if the idea is to minimize conflict and keep the peace.
In practice, Swat is how police departments bully and terrorize the American underclass, dissenters and other enemies of the police. Swat team members shamelessly describe themselves as “elite warriors” and seem to want to emulate Delta Force Operators. Delta is the often glamorized, Special Forces Detachment that carries out covert and clandestine operations on behalf of the Central Intelligence Agency and the United States Special Operations Command.
Swat operations also provide inherently dramatic footage, for content hungry television news broadcasts. Swat stories are easy stories. And, reporters who create these “news accounts” must either gulp and swallow real good or lose access to the only sources who will talk to them. The result has been a virtually unexamined escalation of Swat atrocities.
In November 2006, a 25-year-old Marine veteran and member of the Pagans Motorcycle Club named Derek Hale was executed by a Swat team in Wilmington, Delaware during the service of a search warrant for indicia of his membership in a motorcycle club. Last October, another Pagan named James Hicks was executed by members of a Swat team serving another indicia warrant in Virginia.
In July 2008, the home a man named Cheye Calvo (see video below) in Berwyn Heights, Maryland was stormed by a Swat team because Calvo had thoughtlessly carried a package containing marijuana into his home. The package was handed to him by a policeman in disguise. But it was a drug bust so, of course, dynamic entry was allowed. It was a typically nasty raid.
But, Calvo happened to be the Mayor of Berwyn Heights. He was stubborn enough and politically connected enough to shame the State of Maryland into what is called “the Open Swat Law.” All Maryland police departments must now disclose statistical information about their Swat raids. That disclosure has been reluctant but apparently complete and on February 24th, the Baltimore Sun published a summary of information about Swat deployments collected during the final half of 2009. It is the first such disclosure in the country.
In six months, or 183 days, Maryland deployed Swat teams 804 times. “Police forced their way into 545 houses,” the Sun reported, “seized property in 633 of the raids, made arrests 485 times and discharged their weapons five times. In the six months studied, seven civilians were hurt but none killed, and two animals were injured and two killed.”
“Of the 806 raids conducted in the six-month period, more than 94 percent stemmed from search or arrest warrants.” Only six percent responded to bank robberies, hostage takings, barricades and the other kinds of emergencies Pat McKinley had anticipated when he imagined Swat.
Murdering Russell Doza
The way Russell Doza was disabled was that he was deaf. He almost died in an explosion. He survived but most of his hearing did not. He wore two hearing aids. He took them out when he slept.
So he slept through the dynamic entry. And when he died the only witnesses were police. Publically released accounts of the murder are remarkably consistent. None of the police participants have ever heard of the movie Roshoman. They have their stories straight.
Three Swat team members, Deputy Lance Ramsey, Corporal Tom Helm and Sergeant Shane Rhames found Doza asleep on the floor. They are all experienced cops. Last year a local civic organization, the Sertoma Club – which “exists for the high and noble purpose of service to mankind’’ – named Ramsey “Deputy of the year.”
The shaken police spokesman, Shannon Clark, said that as Doza woke up he reached for a gun on a nearby bookshelf. A slightly embellished account describes how Doza actually picked up the hand gun and pointed it at officers. Police have not yet speculated on why Doza decided to commit suicide then, there and like that. Most people do not have that reaction to even the worst dreams. When most people outside a combat zone awake they usually expect to live at least through breakfast.
Doza’s old friend Ramona Gregory told the World that she thinks he was acting in self-defense. “Coming out of a dumb sleep, you’re going to reach for something to protect yourself,” Gregory speculated. “Automatically, if he has a gun to protect him, he’s going to reach for it.”
But, what happened might have been even simpler than that. It is plausible that as he was startled awake, Doza forgot about the gun on the shelf. As the deaf man opened his eyes he saw three fantastic figures dressed up like children on Halloween. They were shouting commands at him that he could not hear. So without thinking, without being given time to think, he reached for his hearing aids. So he would know what these officers were commanding him to do. So he could comply with those commands. And, then the police killed him.
The subsequent search found no drugs.
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May 3rd, 2010 at 11:36 am
Russell was murdered in bed, he was shot 15 times in the back and twice in the back of the head. His bed is soaked in blood his blanket left with at least 11 bullet holes in it and the wall around his bed pierced with bullet holes. Their claim that he was face down on the ground is a lie… an innocent man was killed for no reason, there werent any drugs and all the weapons were in a locked gun cabinet.
May 3rd, 2010 at 2:53 pm
May God bless you Mr. Doza.
Shyster
May 3rd, 2010 at 5:34 pm
Another in the long list of growing murdered clubers.By the no good fucking pigs.When will people say enough is enough.I guess not till it effects there life. W.T.F.Until then everyone just bury your head in the sand and take it up the ass.
F.T.F. & F.T.P.
May 3rd, 2010 at 5:37 pm
Rest in Peace Russell Doza.
Sobering thought to know that the patch you wear with dignity and pride is actually a bullseye to LEO’s. What I was most shocked about was when the Baltimore Sun did it’s article about the use of SWAT and the lack of any rational reason to use them, there was no public outcry, even after the Mayor of Berwyn Heights was subjected to a mistaken SWAT raid and had his dog killed, still the public while maybe not supporting the cops, did not criticize them. I believe we are seeing same phenomenum that occured in Nazi Germany, “First they came for the Communist and I said nothing because I wasn’t a communist. then they came for the Trade Unionist, and still I said nothing as I wasn’t a trade unionist, then they came for the Jews, but I didn’t say anything because I wasn’t a Jew, then they came for me and there was no one left to say anything.”
Paramilitary tactics have at best a very, very limited scope of legitimate uses by civilian police forces, busting someone for a couple of OZ’s of any drug is not one and “indicia” warrants is certainly not. Using “Delta Force” wannabes on these types of raids is akin to premeditated murder.
Justice for Derek Hale
Justice for James Hicks
Justice for Russell Doza
Respect to all that have earned it.
Si vis Pacem, Parabellum.
May 3rd, 2010 at 5:52 pm
What the news failed to mention was RUSSELL was shot 9 times I believe and two of those were in the back,and the people who run the funeral home even had to go across the street the day before the funeral because TULSA POLICE were setting there harassing visitors who came for the viewing, funeral directors asked them to leave.Also in a news article and on local news stations in TULSA was announced that there was a threat of retaliation made against TCSO, and other agencies and to be cautious when stopping any motorcycle riders especially be cautious of anyone wearing a patch, sad thing is the local news only gave the cops side of any stories and nothing from any of the CLUB MEMBERS.
May 3rd, 2010 at 7:16 pm
Tough times require tough action retaliation may soon come too past, leo seems to be pushing for this action.Just saying yano.Who is marching for the profiling of bikers ?
Respect, Steve
May 3rd, 2010 at 7:56 pm
We may never know what actually happened that morning in Mr. Doza’s home. The police will all swear that he pointed a firearm at them, and Mr. Doza can’t tell us. It’s a shame.
Years ago I was in the county jail in central Illinois, serving time for a DUI, when I heard a commotion in the day-room of our cell-block. It sounded like a quarter-stick going off, and then the shuffling of many pairs of boots. As I looked out of my cell I saw about a dozen cops in riot gear, pointing shotguns and yelling for us to “GET ON THE FUCKING GROUND!” Our entire cell-bock was threatened, handcuffed, taken from the jail, and put on a bus. As we were sitting on the bus (with shotguns in our faces) I asked a cop what was going on. He told me that it was a county sheriff’s SWAT training exercise, and shut up. As we were put back in our cells I thought about how cowardly this “exercise,” was, and how it was probably illegal! Oh well, we were just criminals, and they were the elite SWAT team! It seems that these tough para-military squads only take on individuals and those who are unarmed; typical cop tactics, maybe one day we’ll get fed up and lock some of these tough guys away for their abuses of power. I hope so.
troyez
May 3rd, 2010 at 8:38 pm
Thank you for writing this.
May 3rd, 2010 at 9:31 pm
Three words “LYING FUCKING MURDERERS
May 3rd, 2010 at 9:41 pm
Troyez,
Thats pretty intense. Makes me wonder how much “training” like this using people in jails as human guinea pigs actually goes on in this country.
LEO’s and there alphabetic agencies are becoming more and more of a miltia every day.
R.I.P. Russel Doza
Bud
May 4th, 2010 at 5:27 am
Half of these SWAT guys are military wannabe’s who never served. They are the type of guys who want to kill someone “legally”. I have always been paranoid about the police and have had a few run ins that have reinforced those feelings through the years. Looking back over the last few years, we are moving closer and closer towards a police state. Anybody or “group” that is considered “different” is under more and more scrutiny from all levels of law enforcement. A lot of people think I am on the lunatic fringe, but the government has used the actions of 9/11 and other terrorist actions to develop laws. They are now using these laws against the very people they were designed to protect. Scary shit if you ask me.
You will see more and more stories like this unfortunate one. And you will see more and more lemmings spew “nice job guys!”, “Way to kill the bad guy, boys!”. Like I said, scary shit.
May 4th, 2010 at 10:00 pm
And sadly the “sleeping giant” of the American people’s spirit continues to slumber while these injustices become more and more commonplace. I really REALLY hate what this F-n country has become in the last 20 years.
May 6th, 2010 at 7:40 am
I forgot to mention that in OKLA. it is legal to carry a concealed weapon as long as you have a permit, I have and do carry as with quite a few of my BROTHERS. Before this incident where RUSSELL was murdered( and I say murdered) when the cops pulled one or more of us over , we would announce that we have permits and are carrying, the looks on their faces were almost that of sheer fright.These trigger happy cops in this town will be so jumpy it should be interesting to see how this all plays out, RUSSEL was in he ROGUES MOTORCYCLE CLUB, and I belong to another although I knew him and considered him a FRIEND and BROTHER , and to REBEL thanks for posting this story and for doing more to get the total facts in this case.
May 6th, 2010 at 1:26 pm
Ride in Peace Russell. This is a very sad story and becoming alot more common unfortunately. And while the retaliation you speak of against these murdering cops is exactly what they deserve….let’s remember that one of them may have a major health condition that they handle with medication…let’s say…a heart condition. Let’s not forget that this one cop with a medical condition may need his meds while behind bars and just maybe whomever arrested him took the wrong meds with them and the sick bay at the jail may be giving him the wrong meds and he may pass away before ever having a chance to clear his name. (Ride in Peace Brother House). You’re right about all of what they deserve!! Can’t even imagine how those tough cops would survive what we survived through and what others haven’t survived. Russell was MURDERED!! Plain and simple. Sad, sad story.
May 7th, 2010 at 1:57 am
As sad as this is, I find it mind-boggling that any American could be cheering a man being riddled with bullets in his own bed out of a sound sleep – in particular when he’s extremely hard of hearing and could have had no idea what was going on. I wonder if the scumbags rah-rah-ing for the pigs would be quite so happy if it had happened to one of their loved ones.
May Russell Doza rest in peace; my condolences to those who knew him – and a big steaming FUCK YOU to the shitheads dancing on this man’s grave.
May 7th, 2010 at 10:35 am
If you are running drugs out of your house and there is an explosion and people yelling “Police”, you are probably going to figure it is the police and hold you hands in the air and probably live.
If you have no drugs or illegal items in your house, and have no reason to think the police are going to barge in, then when you hear a bang and people yelling “police” you are going to assume it is a home invasion and go for your gun (or eyeglasses or hearing aid). And after you get shot, the police simply say “he grabbed a gun”.
So it appears we have a SWAT system which is designed to “accidentally” kill innocent people.
If SWAT busts into my house I am going to die. My first thought will be robbery and the first one though the bedroom door is going to get shot. Then they will shoot me and it will be my fault.
When the incident at Waco occured and the ATF raided the compound to arrest David Koresh, the local sheriff said something like “he comes to town quite often. We could have just waited around and arrested him peacefully at the grocery store”.
I believe there were safer and more intelligent ways to serve this warrant. RIP Russell Doza.
May 7th, 2010 at 8:30 pm
chainsaw: That is exactly the pattern, time and time again.
Though I name you in this post, in no way do I include your name when I say the following:
There will come a day when the tables are turned. Speaking strictly for myself, when there is no justice, there should be retribution.
A sworn officer(s) who commits murder no longer deserves the protection of his office or the state.
More atrocities are commited under “color of law” than at almost any time in our nation’s history. I do not condone the actions of Timothy Mcveigh or people like him, nor do I condone the taking of innocent life.
Talk is cheap, well do I know. But an “eye for an eye” is the most ancient of laws. I assure you my eyes would remain dry were any of the killers of Sgt. Hale, James Hicks and Russell Doza to find themselves to have suffered the same fate.
Let the fuckers come to my house……………….
May 8th, 2010 at 5:59 am
Chainsaw and Not Surprised,
Amen to your comments, I sleep lightly at night a byproduct of my experiences. Next to me at all times a fully loaded M4 and 1911. I have committed no crimes, but should SWAT come thru my door by mistake, I guess I will be another Headline in the Morning Paper.
Respect to all that have earned it.
Justice for Derek Hale, James Hicks and Russell Doza
Si vis Pacem, Parabellum.
May 8th, 2010 at 7:22 am
“What country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance. Let them take arms.”
Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, Dec. 20, 1787, in Papers of Jefferson, ed. Boyd et al.)
May 8th, 2010 at 3:31 pm
I dont know who the man the police describe as Russell Doza is. It certainly is not the Russell I have known and loved for more than 20 yrs. In all that time, he never failed to pick me up when I fell, take me to task when I was in the wrong, feed me if I was hungry, he was the epitome of what a big brother should be. He was and will remain the best and brightest of us all. He taught me everything good that I know about family, friendship, loyalty. There is absolutely no form of retaliation that could give me anything I want or need. I want and need my big brother Russell back. I want the officers who executed him to live long lives feeling the pain and loss that I live with everyday. There is absolutely no justification for the manner law enforcement served the warrant and stormed in on any american citizen, be they biker, legal immigrant, or other “alleged criminal”. What the swat team did is so very wrong. The officers involved should lose their jobs at the very least, and also face felony first degree murder charges. But I am fairly certain that will not happen. I think that this is just the beginning of an apocolypse for bikers in every state. I wish with all my heart that you could have known my brother Russell. Your lives would have been so much richer for knowing him. Losing him for me covers my world in nuclear winter, black burnt bleeding and filled with ashes. It is a wound nothing can heal, not even the blood of christ himself
May 8th, 2010 at 7:10 pm
Melissa,
My most sincere condolences for your loss. May your brother ride with the angels.
Si vis Pacem, Parabellum.
May 8th, 2010 at 9:24 pm
melissa
Thank you for posting here, your words are very moving. Hope you decide to stick arouond. Deepest condolences for your loss.
May 9th, 2010 at 5:33 pm
“Ironically, many police cars in many parts of America still wear a slogan on their sides which reads, “To Protect and Serve.”
I think this motto still rings true more than ever. Some get protected. Some get served.
The only right and wrong in modern society is to be either loved, respected, or useful to the leadership. Being an outcast is a crime.
May 10th, 2010 at 6:26 am
Just seems to me that there are way too many deaths that get brushed under the rug and the whole story not told to the public as to how many and for what reason SWAT shoots and kills MEMBERS of MOTORCYCLE CLUBS in comparison to citizens, meaning that,#1 THE MEDIA TELLS ONLY POLICE SIDES OF STORIES, #2 IN COMPARISON of CITIZENS to BIKERS in NUMBER.We all know you can’t always trust the local news to print accurate accounts of anything where the POLICE are involved as they only in most cases tell the POLICE side and very seldom will they retract a story when it is made clear to them, this story is one of the biggest cover ups in TULSA in awhile, hopefully the real truth will come out and justice will be served. Just a few months back in TULSA there was a story on the eve. news stating that a well known MOTORCYCLE CLUB was responsible for a drive by shooting, which even the POLICE knew was not the case, but the local news channel never said anything other than that to let the general public know this was not the case.
May 10th, 2010 at 9:04 pm
WHOA don’t please please DON’T FOR A MINUTE think it’s only patch wearing clubbers!!! After having way too many close friends die in a short period a number of years ago, and finding out about the same time I was pregnant, I thought I’d try a “milder, less wild” lifestyle, moved to the mountains, stayed home more, ya know, tamed myself down a bit. But last year my husband was murdered, shot 3 times in the back by the boyfriend of a DA investigator who was just plain envious of my wonderful, honorable, hard working, successful, wild and take no shit beautiful Irish rebel and Gaelic football star husband. Just before he killed him, he raised hell with some children fishing at our lake, and when he was told that the Sheriff was going to be called he laughed and said “I am the Sheriff.” That’s the sad fact – “law enforcement” and those close to them feel they can do as they please, and the rest of us better just put up with it or die. This is the problem with calling elected folks “officials” rather than “public servants” – they start thinking they are! Watch out – you could be next. Just take care you don’t have something – a piece of property, a beautiful lake, some valuable animals, anything – that “they” want – because one way or the other, they may end up with it. Truth, Justice (they think it’s Just – Us” and they mean THEM) and the American Way is dying out. It’s now Just Them and the rest of us are just eaters and the payers of their wages! Don’t laugh – this is the Truth of today. Stand up and ask the questions I keep asking – WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR PROSECUTING CRIMES COMMITTED BY ELECTED PUBLIC “OFFICIALS” AGAINST CITIZENS? The answer I was given after asking this question of the US Attorney’s office – at the advice of a Senator – was “that’s not our policy!” WTF is right!
May 11th, 2010 at 4:44 am
here is another SWAT outrage. If these boys want to kick in doors and do Dynamic entrys join the army and kick doors where there could be bad guys with AKs.
http://www.fox4kc.com/news/wdaf-columbia-drug-swat-dog-shot-050710,0,7355120.story
Check out the cop kick the guy in the head while he is laying on the floor not doing anything. Then killing his dogs and scareing his wife and small kid. All for a few grams of weed and a bong.
May 11th, 2010 at 6:39 am
MISS KRISTA, I WAS COMPARING NUMBERS AS TO BIKER INCIDENTS, TO NUMBERS OF CITIZENS INCIDENTS.
I WELL KNOW THAT THERE IS WAY MORE CITIZENS THAN BIKERS SHOT OVERALL, SO DON’T GET YOUR PANTIES IN A WAD, AND SORRY ABOUT YOUR HUSBAND, YES LAW ENFORCEMENT EVERYWHERE THINK THEY ARE A HEAD ABOVE THE REST.
May 11th, 2010 at 8:27 am
A never before seen police dash cam video was shown in court yesterday in the trial of an Ottawa Hills police officer accused of shooting and paralyzing a docile biker in the back during a traffic stop:
http://abclocal.go.com/wtvg/story?section=news/local&id=7433661
May 11th, 2010 at 9:31 am
History teaches that abusers don’t subside/end their abuse without being forced to or, until they suffer heavy losses themselves.
Then, and only then, will an issue of this type receive the attention it needs from the entire world in order to bring the abusers’ actions to an end, and to seek redress thereafter.
An illegal, unprovoked, truly troubling war on bikers has been silently and conspiratorially declared from within the shadows of night; without the proper government authorization established for the purpose of assuring tyranny is not allowed to flourish in America. ALL wars MUST be approved/declared by Congress.
Perhaps the law enforcement spies monitoring this page can point me to the official document authorizing this war?
Taxpayer funded murder squads have unleashed their attacks in Gestapo military fashion, dressed in military clothing, using military weaponry.
From where I sit, I see a genocide of bikers in progress.
I’m left to wonder if the Americans under attack will ever defend themselves from these illegal & abusive murderers.
Or if these military squads will be allowed to murder every single biker in America, before turning their blood thirsty appetites onto the next group slated for extermination?
Just an observation from someone not living the culture/lifestyle of a biker.
However, my observation concerns me that if the systematic extermination of an entire class of men who generally don’t take no shit from anyone is tolerated & allowed to take place without any visible forms of resistance– then what fuckin’ chance does the rest of this nation have?
The American Biker is Americas last great frontier!
And last hope, I believe.
In Hollywood movies the great frontier warriors don’t go down without a fight.
I wonder how Hollywood would write the end of the American Biker in a modern day film?
I wonder how because, the end of the American Biker is near.
May 11th, 2010 at 10:25 am
James – my panties aren’t in a wad because of your comparing numbers, but because of what is happening to this country. I have four children with no father – a man who was a rare, honorable and hardworking, thoughtful and passionate person, a dying breed, literally. That literally no one seems to care that this man was murdered, shot in the back, after literally YEARS of “doing the right thing” (making police reports, etc.) following everything including physical assaults, harassment, criminal property damage, etc. by this “law enforcement relation”, and now the very DA who allowed this to occur is in charge of the “prosecution” of the back shooting murderer, is what has my panties in a wad. And they’ll NEVER be out unless/until something changes IN A MAJOR WAY so that the intelligent free thinkers (what’s left of them) in our society are allowed to not only live in peace, but thrive in freedom. We fought a war years ago to rid ourselves of the oppressors, and now are more oppressed than ever. Disgraceful – I can tell you this is NOT what my Marine Corp father believed in or why he chose to serve “our country”. What do we teach our children? Be sheople and feed the machine no matter how you (or your father) is treated? Not on my watch.
May 11th, 2010 at 11:11 am
MISS KRISTA, I can fully understand what you are saying here now, it is sad as to what is going on and how things have progressed over the years, and yes we as AMERICANS are losing our freedoms along with our rights to which we were brought up to believe in.I am honestly sad to hear of your troubles and what you have been put through, the loss of your husband and father of your children to the act of a coward is saddening, I do hope someday there will be justice brought about in your case, SINCERELY JAMES
May 11th, 2010 at 12:29 pm
James – Thanks – looking for a bit of peace, but fearing none is available here any more. Even in Ireland the young people seem to forget how long ago their forefathers were subjected to an attempted, and admitted, genocide by the wealthy. Patagonia maybe? Who knows any more.
May 11th, 2010 at 12:47 pm
Grumbler,
Jesus, that biker was just sitting there completely relazed, and NO THREAT to anyone. WTF are they teaching cops in cop school now, just shoot whoever you want and make up a reason later?? If that judge or jury does not find him guilty, maybe we should start to chant “Burn baby, Burn!
Respect to all that have earned it.
Si vis Pacem, Parabellum.
May 11th, 2010 at 6:20 pm
Miss Krista,
I extend my greatest sympathy to you and your children. I also am a single parent. I know the loss that you and your children feel. My other wonderful half I now have, was brother and friend to Russell. My children have suffered much over his loss. He was their “uncle”, he also was a man with a heart of gold that never stopped giving. He was constantly doing for us, and everyone he knew. He worked hard, he played hard and he always wanted things RIGHT. He tried to make things better for whoever he was around. He was not a “gang” member. He was in a motorcycle club. He was a biker, he was a pipe liner and one hell of a man. He helped raise money for a young boy that was burned for Gods sake. People profile and judge others without ever knowing what they are like simply because they are bikers ALL THE TIME. My children were NEVER afraid of him. How do you explain to a young boy when he asks you “Who would want to shoot Uncle Russell?” He loved this man very much. I also know how you feel about what to tell your children. I will NOT have my children be sheep to the onslaught of this selfish bureaucratic machine running over everything in our country. I also agree with Hermis, when in the world are people going to get the backbone their forefathers had to STOP this tyranny running a muck? I know a lot of bikers. I know a lot that aren’t. I am selective of people, not by looks or money or where they are from. Most of them are bikers. Biker or not, they are loyal to a fault, they are good people with good hearts.They live by what I call the “old code” which so much of this country has lost.They also will die for what is right. I also agree with all, that if someone, anyone comes in my home uninvited, either I am dying or they are. I for one WILL NOT stand by here in Tulsa and take the death of one of my dearest friends lightly. I WILL FIGHT to the bitter end through the red tape, newsletters, get public awareness up to whomever and whatever it takes for this senseless killing. I have made it quite clear with everyone I know including my children that if something mysteriously happens to me while “stirring” the pot, trying to right this wrong, I did nothing wrong and I stood up to fight for what is RIGHT. I expect no less from them. I raised mine to question authority with good reason. Tulsa is currently a fiasco. ATF under investigation, TPD under investigation, TCSO under investigation, the flipping ME office is under investigation for everything from falsifying reports to rape! And they are investigating each other of all the garbage. Good,loyal, hard working people at whatever they do, are a rarity these days. And the ones that buck the system are being taken out, for doing what IS RIGHT. And now my children are also, like yours, afraid of the police. Because they ARE the law. Ask one they will tell you. Doesn’t matter what is right, doesn’t matter what the laws say. They ARE the law and therefore apparently in their unreal world above it. NOT with me. Don’t stop fighting. Fight for your cause. A worthy cause is always worth fighting for and sometimes dying for. You can’t live in fear. If it keeps this from happening to one more person. You let your children know that you never gave up fighting for what was right. Get a Grand Jury investigation. Put out your own newsletter if the media wont aid you. You do what it takes. Even if it kills you. Even if they kill you. You tell me where to write and I will do it.
May 12th, 2010 at 2:05 am
R.I.P. Russel , condolences to his brothers and family..
May 13th, 2010 at 10:29 am
First, my condolences to anyone who lost a loved one.
Second, just a question …. nowhere in the interview of the mayor did they touch on the fact why there was a package addressed to his wife that had drugs in it? Anyone know?
May 13th, 2010 at 11:54 am
My deepest sympathy to Russell Doza’s family and friends. We are definitely living in scary times when a man can be treated with such disrespect and brutality and no one comes to justice.
Never give up. A worthy cause is worth fighting for, and those standing up for what they believe in are worthy of our respect and admiration. They certainly have mine.
~Aerrin
May 13th, 2010 at 1:11 pm
Dear bizzerk,
Guy one bought grass from guy two. Guy two sent the grass to the mayor’s house with the idea that guy one could watch for the delivery and pick up the grass when it arrived at the bogus address. That way, even if the the weed was intercepted, it would be untraceable to either the buyer or the seller. Either guy one and guy two were Cheech and Chong or they had some reason to think that neither the mayor nor his wife would be at home when the package arrived. As it turned out, all of the mayor’s family was at home when the package arrived. You know the rest.
WEED! We talking about MARIJUANA! Not the French connection. We not talking about a cargo container from the Shan states. This package did not have an Afghan return address. REEFER!
Do you know that in California, with a prescription, I can legally buy an ounce of weed each week? With a prescription, I can legally hold a half pound. Unless the Feds decide to go after me. Then, a couple of joints justifies a Swat Team. Same country. Conflicting sets of laws.
WEED! The raid that got Russell Doza killed? WEED!
Your pal,
Rebel
May 13th, 2010 at 11:23 pm
Fucking mudering cowards! They will live a long life knowing what murdering chicken shits that they are, although, a better option would be for them to turn their own guns on themselves.
May 17th, 2010 at 5:51 pm
Thanks for the explanation Rebel! Not very bright drug dealers/smugglers I guess. I read somewhere it was 32 pounds of weed. I’m no expert in weed prices but I would think that would be a substantial amount of money? I guess it’s all relative, but if it were me I would have planned it a little better! A little research on the habits of the Calvos may have gone a long way….
I like the site, Keep up the good work, and again RIP Russell Doza.
May 18th, 2010 at 10:09 am
Dear bizzerk,
Figure $250 an ounce for sensimilla. If you are moving big pounds and somebody else is taking the risk of holding it, for all I know it is only worth $150 an ounce or $5360 a key. Thirty-two pounds is $128K or less. Sixteen keys is $140K or less. I have heard. I am not sure where. I think I heard it on reality TV. It depends on how much money you think is substantial.
Rebel
May 19th, 2010 at 12:26 pm
rip brother
May 19th, 2010 at 1:10 pm
the news paper in pawhuska,ok.is going to do a positive story on Russell that will include a district court Judge that is also church pastor that will speak positively of our Brother.this judge was also @ the funeral and i don’t have the words to express what that did for my spirit.the emontional dust has not yet settled.WE were robbed.There is a hole in us that will never be filled,but we will heal and be refreshed by each other,for each other.We will see justice unless death comes first.We will never quit,nor be dismayed,with our last breath we will fight for justice for our BROTHER,for GOD IS WITH US! Half-Bob Rogues Motorcycle Club Chaplain,Wichita,Ks.
May 20th, 2010 at 12:15 am
Godspeed Mr. Doza…
The militarization of the police is an extreme over kill, and as someone mentioned, a lot of these guys are non military and taking out their over training on the public, agreed.
They conspire to lie, deceive, set up, and just generally get their way regardless.
I have read two training manuals that were issued years apart, the latter one called for much more aggressive tactics than the earlier release.
Yup, over friggin weed, crazy isn’t it. Prohibition is not winnable and pot is still as available as ever, our DA’s have gone insane.
Flat foot’s kill them all in raids, kids, 92 year old woman, dogs, etc…
Here is some stuff to really get the gander up.
http://www.cato.org/raidmap/
http://stopthedrugwar.org/policeraids/botched_swat_raid_compilation
http://www.saveourguns.com/scott001.htm
Ar, you do a great job here and write very well, thank you for the efforts.
May 21st, 2010 at 9:52 am
The man was deaf……….
I haven’t slept well since my first a.m. raid years ago. It’s traumatic. Dogs make it worse because they add to the confusion, so I like area alarms and lights.
May 21st, 2010 at 12:31 pm
Half-Bob – My thoughts and prayers are with you – this is one reason we need a national Marsy’s Law – which people are pushing for – so look into that and get behind it – at least then we have some say during the court proceedings. Thank God a victim advocacy project, specifically for Marsy’s Law, is helping file writs, etc. in our case. One is pending now and brings in the US Constitution. You’re right – eventually RIGHT has to prevail – we just have to stay strong. As for robbed – I feel these little babies who still cry for Daddy every day were Condemned by the murdering backshooting coward who killed our man, and that’s the same you have been dealt. Justice will come now or at judgment day. As so well said by RVN69 – Respect to all that have earned it.
May 23rd, 2010 at 6:04 pm
It is moments like this that I am ashamed to live in the land of the free!
May 29th, 2010 at 2:14 pm
Maybe we should start letting the LEO’s wear the 1% diamond being as how for the most part BROTHERS from all MC’s/RG’s have helped the American community by giving it outright and paying it forward where as the bacons just ask for their FOP handouts and pocketing the money. As for the TulCo. Sherrifs Dept., all the ones I have met seem to be of the lesser educated type(AKA dipshits). As for TPD, theres been way too many shootings by them here lately some of which have not been released as being “required in the line of duty”. Like Willy said, shit aint right!!
July 13th, 2010 at 12:39 am
I cannot express how my heart broke when I read this article this evening. I spent many years in the Rogues family. None of which I regret to this day. My sons spent hours upon hours playing pool, listening to great stories from men who have lived amazing lives and helped teach my boys how to respect others and give when it is needed. Russell was one of three men who gave me away at my wedding in 2000 in Barnsdall. He played pool with my children at the reception, gave them rides on his scooter when he stayed the night at my and my husbands house. He has slept on my couch, eaten at my dinner table, and played tag with my kids in our front yard. The last time I spoke with him was right after he was released from prison. He came to a local bar in Oklahoma where I was working to see me after a long year. The last words he spoke to me were, ” I am proud of you and I love you like a little sister no matter where life takes you, you always know where you can find me if you need me.” This wonderful man, who either loved you or hated you. There was no inbetween with him. No gray- Only, like the patch he proudly wore on his back, black and white. I spent many nights in that clubhouse. Listening to stories, laughing hysterically, but most of all, learning. Learning from Russell and the rest of the wonderful men who called each other, “Brother”. Russell was a person. Not a statistic. Not biker trash, nor a dope fiend junkie. Russell was a genuine human being who deserved more than being slaughtered where he slept. There is no glory in this for you. And if you think that you have accomplished some great feat by murdering this wonderful person, you are sadly mistaken. I will sit down with my boys tomorrow, who are now, 17 and 19 years old, yes, the same 7 and 9 year old boys he played chase with in our front yard so many years ago, and try to explain to them what has happened to their Uncle Russell. Reaching for a gun? You forget, those of us who knew Russell, know he was far smarter than that. Russell, I love you. I thank you for always being there when I needed you,testing me and teaching me, getting pissed at me for beating you in pool, then patting me on the back and telling me good job, always listening to me when I needed someone to confide in, never with any strings attached. Just because, you cared. The world was a better place with you in it.
……I find it remarkably insane that I have never heard of SWAT kicking down the doors of known child molesters and shooting them in the back while coming out of a deep sleep, yet years of survellience was and Im sure is continuing, to be done on a clubhouse full of brotherhood.. There’s something disturbing about this. My thoughts go out to Russell’s family, including his Rogue family. I think about you all the time and miss you. This is a tragedy. I love you—-
Michelle–