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since Sean sudor was murdered and still the crime scene at schroer and Bennett places in West Baltimore it remains
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taped off at this hour ABC 2 News investigative reporter Brian cubbler has been on the story and joins us live
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right now from Baltimore Police Headquarters tonight with a continued search for suitors killer and those
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inside and outside the department mourning his loss Brian yeah Jamie Shan Suter was only in the homicide unit of
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the police department for about two years but in that short time victims families became friends and Friends
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became families exactly a week later now in this part of Harlem Park in West Baltimore remains a crime scene an
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active one as forensics were called back out just today but while technicians Revisited sudor scene he was more than
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um police officer Kevin Fenwick felt compelled to meet us at his son's crime scene Kendall Fenwick you might recall
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was murdered two years ago after erecting a fence around his Northwest Baltimore home to keep the drug dealers
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out a good hardworking honest family man his killing lingers just a little longer
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in The Barrage of what can be Baltimore's violent crime statistics a cold-blooded killing that would fall to
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a brand new homicide detective at the time Kendall Fenwick was detective Shan suter's first ever case and first ever
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closure he brought Comfort to my family knowing that we had this person behind bars
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and he always told me I will be there for you and he has and he has a true friend he has but it didn't stop there
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through the next two years sudor became family to Fenwick in all of his relationships that was just simply the
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detectives emmo he was a special very very special man my brother and I I love him forever
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his colleagues say much the same thing detective Eric Perez came up in the department with suitor yesterday telling
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us it's all that he can do from falling apart balancing such pain with the drive
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for justice I have to battle um the emotion while sticking to to to the mission which is which is finding who
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who killed sea so you have to really um know when to turn that switch on and off
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so that you could uh stay on course and and and stay focused on what needs to be
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done the concept of closure is subjective it's personal but there is perhaps no one better equipped to Define
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it than a homicide detective and the family member of a murder victim for Fenwick he can only hope the family of
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the men who works so hard to give him his closure is afforded the same Comfort it's terrifying it is it's it's
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speechless speechless just trying to hold myself together now but um it's speechless speechless meanwhile in just
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a few moments here the Baltimore City Police Department is planning to brief the media of an update in this
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investigation that is now as you said Jamie exactly one week old tonight we will bring this press conference to you
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live as it happens here from City police headquarters for now we're live that City Police Headquarters in downtown
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Baltimore this evening Ryan cubler ABC 2 [Music] news on November 15th 2017 detective Shan suder is 43 years
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old old and an 18-year veteran of the Baltimore Police Department in Maryland sudor started out as a Beat cop and
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worked his way up through the ranks to earn his detective badge he was assigned to the homicide division back in
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2016 we should mention 2017 was the third straight year in which Baltimore had more than 300 killings so almost One
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A Day In fact the murder rate was so out of control in 2018 City organizers began
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holding 72-hour ceasefire weekends a time period when it is not okay to shoot someone busy homicide detectives in
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Baltimore PD traditionally work in pairs and the detectives do not wear a uniform
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but rather a suit and tie I'm sure everybody's familiar with this this seems to be the protocol most cities
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furthermore unlike Baltimore police officers detectives do not wear body cameras on November 15th detective
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Suitor was not working with with his regular partner sudor was paired up with a different partner for the day and the
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two headed out to follow up with a possible witness on a triple killing from 2016 the area they went to was the 900
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block of Bennett place and what the Baltimore son called quote a notoriously violent section of the Harlem Park
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neighborhood of West Baltimore detective suor was familiar with the Harlem Park neighborhood as he was a patrol officer
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there at one time according to the Sun newspaper the facts of the event is this detective sudor and his Partners saw a
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man acting suspiciously in a vacant lot the two detectives split up to cover different exits of the block and then
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detective sudor was shot sudor suffered one gunshot wound to the head and was rushed to the University of Maryland
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Shock Trauma Center the BPD confirmed the shooting at 5:42 p.m. in an email to the media stating the police Department
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was gathering details regarding the police involved shooting that occurred at approximately 4:30
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p.m. at 900 p.m. detective suor was in critical condition a news conference featuring Police Commissioner Kevin
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Davis outlined the details of the incident without releasing the detective's name according to Davis the
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detective approached a man engaged in suspicious behavior in an attempt to speak with him when he was shot Davis
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described the attack as spontaneous he continued our 18-year veteran homicide detective was shot in the head the
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detective was in very very grave condition and he continues to fight for his life sadly the detective Shan Suter
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died the next day on November 16th in the presence of his wife and five children doctors desperately tried to
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save the life of the respected officer they knew personally but they were unsuccessful commissioner Davis released
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Shan suter's name to the public in a news conference announcing his death Davis told the media that police found
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evidence that the suspect was injured but declined to elaborate on this statement he said police were searching
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emergency rooms and doctor's offices for anyone with any unexplained injuries the
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Maryland state flag was lowered to half staff and within days a reward of $215,000 was offered for information on
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the case in the wake of detective sutor murder officials from all over Maryland declared that they would make it their
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mission to find detective sutor killer we will find the person responsible for this ridiculous absurd unnecessary loss
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of life said commissioner Davis he described detective sudor as a wonderful detective husband father and friend
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Davis employed citizens to help the police bring this heartless ruthless soulless killer to Justice he asked the
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immediate investigation so Captain for hours after sudor was shot police maintained a wide perimeter around the
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900 block of Bennett Place while officers checked nearby homes for the shooter police helicopters circled
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overhead looking for suspects the day after the shooting police fanned out across the neighborhood knocking on
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doors to ask neighbors if they knew anything about the shooting or the shooter they cored off the whole block
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questioning all the residents and looked in all of the homes there residents expressed concern that they were often
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detained when coming and going regardless of probable cause required to show ID and Pat it down this aggressive
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zoning off of the area was later declared by the media and public to be unconstitutional and this lasted for 6
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days after the shooting the lockdown caused complaints from residents to say the very least which is this is a sticky
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situation cuz you don't want anybody's rights to be infringed on but at the same time you have a officer that was
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killed in your area trying to protect and serve your area so it's like you should be a little more Cooperative
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possibly with this investigation I think describing this as a sticky situation A
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spoton by you Captain good job by you it is very difficult and it's difficult for
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me to have an opinion on this because on one side I want to say you know what they're looking for a cop killer and we
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should do we can to find whoever killed this police officer right but at the other hand it's it's tough because I
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don't live in that neighborhood you know I've never had my neighborhood blocked off for six six days and be paded down
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and asked to show ID every time I come and go from my home my neighborhood that's infringing on your right so I I
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think you're allowed to have an opinion it sucks on both sides yeah it's yeah it's a terrible situation so who was
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Shan sudor well sud's colleagues remembered him as a Dependable investigator who was often smiling and
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that's one thing that in the research here that I found time and time again everybody said how much this guy was he
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was always smiling always kind of in a good you know good-mannered guy good-natured guy Jonathan Jones suter's
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regular partner said sudor loved the Dallas Cowboys he was known amongst detectives as face on the street uh
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citizens knew him as yeah that was his his nickname but I guess citizens on the street called him scar now both of this
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referred to a facial scar that uh sudor had and then when you put them together you get what Scarface yeah that would
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have been the cooler name Rick Willard a retired officer said he meaning sutor is
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one of the best officers I've ever worked with and it breaks my heart former Baltimore prosecutor Jeremy
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Eldridge called sutor a man with Integrity he continued sutor was one person you would always count on he
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worked tirelessly to put together very wellth thought out cases sud was born and raised in Washington DC he enlisted
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in the Army After High School and served until 1998 he joined the Baltimore Police Department in 1999 but was called
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back to serve in Iraq as a member of the Army Reserves from 2005 to 2007 at the time of his death he lived in York
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County Pennsylvania about an hour's commute to Baltimore he was married and had five children it seems like a more
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common thing lately that these cops don't live in the areas that they work in they actually live an hour or more
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away yeah and here's the thing is I I know that in some areas they're required to live in the areas that they serve or
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within a certain mile radius of that area that area of the country DC Baltimore heavily congested and you also
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have high high crime rates in those cities as well and then the nicer neighborhoods extremely expensive to
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live in so I I don't know that his salary would provide him a good home and a safe neighborhood in that area I just
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want to warn everybody to pay attention because the information that we're going
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to give you it it kind of trickles out over time but you don't want to forget about the information that happened
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beforehand mhm that that's going to play a key role in this case and and I'm telling you the more we dive into this
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case the more that you're going to think we made this up yeah I mean this case will blow your mind well and the
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information coming out in a trickle is is exactly right because from the get-go the police commissioner he held an
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unprecedented number of news conferences about the shooting actually there were seven press conferences in the first 10
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days of the investigation yeah and some have wondered why so many press conferences was this an attempt to
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control the narrative or the release of information about what happened so here are the details that were officially
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released by the Baltimore Police Department concerning the shooting death of detective sudor this is in the first
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10 days sudor was found in the vacant lot of Bennett Place lying face down police recovered detective suter's
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service weapon at the scene it was found underneath his body sudor had his police
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radio clutched in his left hand more than one shot had been fired from sud's gun detective sudor had been killed with
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his own weapon I'll repeat that detective sudor had been killed with his own weapon there was evidence that a
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struggle occurred the detective's killer might have been injured in the course of
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that struggle one strange turn of events also came to light detective sudor was not transported to the shock trauma
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center via ambulance instead officers at the scene put him in a police vehicle and drove him to the hospital which was
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less than a mile away this presumably to save time instead of waiting for an ambulance right now unbelievably while
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in root this police vehicle got into an accident colliding With a Civilian car sutor was then transferred to an
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ambulance at that scene of the accident and then taken to the shock trauma center let's try to get an understanding
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of exactly where detective Suitor body was found he lay on the ground in a vacant lot between two houses from
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photos of the scene you can see it looks like almost an Al Cove between buildings
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windows in the surrounding houses Overlook the lot they appear to be boarded up so there's a lot of vacant
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homes in this area the area has been described as a place where drug addicted homeless and squatters would hang out
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this this is an L-shaped lot that is open to Bennett Place on one side of the lot and to Schroeder Street on the other
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end of the L-shaped lot so there are two ways to access this vacant lot within days of the shooting a makeshift
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Memorial of flowers American flags and momentos sprung up on the corner of the vacant lot in honor of Shan Sutter
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detective suter's autopsy was completed within 5 days of the killing the autopsy
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officially ruled that his death was a homicide Baltimore Police investigators returned to the scene of the shooting to
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investigate further based on what they learned from the autopsy about the bullet trajectory police said they found
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additional significant evidence which turned out to be the Fatal bullet it was lodged in the dirt in the vacant lot and
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it had detective Suitor DNA on it the discovery of this bullet in the lot by evidence text appears to sum to have
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been somewhat staged the discovery happened in front of rolling TV news cameras with what seemed like deliberate
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displays of the bullet police disclosed that in total three shots were fired from Sutter's gun and one of these was a
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close contact gunshot wound to Suitor head police said they found no DNA or other evidence at the scene that might
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lead them to the perpetrator but earlier reports stated police found evidence that the per was injured at the scene
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okay so we have a situation where the law enforcement officer detective Suitor shot in the
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head mhm there's three bullets because there's three shots correct the bullet that hit his head that hit detective
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suter's head they possibly when they find the bullet they find this and the media is there mhm so they're going to
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be holding this up we found the bullet right okay well and the reason why some have stated that they believe it might
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be staged is that so the autopsy it took five days they had remember they blocked
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off that whole area for 6 days total after the shooting and what what the people in the public are going well you
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had this area blocked off for all this time and you didn't find the bullet until after the autopsy 5 days later and
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then when you do find it you're kind of like I mean praying around well yeah you're
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almost holding it up like some kind of trophy or something like that that's very strange yeah but the other key
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thing there is that they state that no DNA or other evidence at the scene might lead them to find the
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perpetrator but we have an earlier statement by police that stated they found evidence that the per was injured
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at the scene so that's conflicting things but they clean it up a little bit with what they find to be good evidence
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to steer them in the right direction so what they found originally that may have
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led them to believe that the perpetrator was injured at the scene this turned out
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to be two blood stains found in the vacant lot one of the blood samples was determined to have been from an animal
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and one was from a local junkie who was interviewed and ruled out so the theory that the suspect had been injured in the
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struggle turned out to be baseless Baltimore Police Department they had no suspects in the killing of one of their
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own well we don't need blood stains or puddles of blood in this alley what we do have is we do have two bullets that
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did not hit detective suor mhm so were those bullets when we look at those bullets did they did they hit anybody do
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they have any DNA evidence on them now I think this would tell us if there was somebody injured in the attack on
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detective sudor yeah and you brought that up at the perfect time because the earlier information that was coming out
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was just very it was a little vague stating that there was more than one shot fired from detective Sutter's gun
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it was later determined that three shots were fired from Sutter's own service weapon and this came about when
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commissioner Davis announced that three shell casings were recovered that ballistically matched su's gun he
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pointed out that these findings did not necessarily mean that no other gun was present or was fired but the casings
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were found very close to Sutter's body police also pointed out pointed to a scuffle mostly because dirt was found on
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suter's suit so the conclusion was that detective sudor was attacked and overpowered by someone his gun taken or
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at least controlled and three shots fired with one hitting SU Su her fatally in the head now you were talking about
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that him and his partner were tracking down a guy that was suspicious in the area mhm the report says that they saw
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someone behaving suspiciously in the area and Suitor decided to approach this individual right so then I'm assuming at
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that point that this is our suspect mhm so do we have a any ID of this guy do we
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have any a description of the potential suit shooter or someone who overpowered Shan Suter right well see this is
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difficult because like you said we're going off of probably just a description of this suspicious person there doesn't
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seem to be any witnesses that actually saw the shooting or the scuffle take place right but we do have his partner
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that saw this suspicious individual mhm in the beginning and this is interesting
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we also have Baltimore Police Department they're refusing to release the detective I name that was working with
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sudor that day it took a while for that information to come out and they also refused to say what he had told
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investigators other than the suspect was a black man wearing a black and white jacket well right but I'm sure that
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narrows it down quite a bit right but I think what they're assuming there is hey
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we have one suspect right now that's probably the guy mhm and then we have one eyewitness and now that suor is dead
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we don't want to release this information we don't want to release what he has told us because we don't
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want a hit put out on this guy M you know what I mean because that's your only eyewitness well two weeks after Sutter's
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death the Baltimore son released the name of the detective working with sudor that day and this is detective David
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banka uh not much is known about this detective from what I could find in the papers uh but reportedly he and
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detective sudor worked at least one case together previous to this shooting uh this detective was a 10-year Baltimore
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Police Department veteran then additional information came out commissioner Davis stated that on the
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day of the shooting bmana and sudor were canvasing the 900 block of benett place
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while investigating a 2016 triple homicide case now this case was Suitor case that they were working not bowa's
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case they had no particular person of interest in their focus on that day for that outing according to the
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commissioner bmana was also investigating a separate murder case that he was staffed
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on the way this reads to me Captain is that they are in this area and they're both working these cases together by
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this point because they've now been paired up right you know detectives thank God they get a day off like
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everybody else apparently it was Suitor Partners day off apparently he and Boo were paired up the day before as well
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right and when you say he you're talking about sudor so sud and Bowa work together this would be the second day in
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a row correct that's my understanding according to the commissioner and this is this has to have come from
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banka this is his account of what was going on at the time of the shooting the commissioner says that both detective
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suor and his partner meaning banka saw a person behaving suspiciously there were
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two observations of this suspicious person one occurred 20 minutes prior meaning the shooting prior to the
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shooting and one occurred just moments before the shooting the detectives did not engage this suspicious person the
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first time they saw this person now in between the two sightings the officers were in a different area but to be clear
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bomea was not in the presence of Detective sudor When The Struggle went down or when the shots took place this
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it's a [Music] GameChanger all right cheers mates how about a quick Captain recap so what we have going on in this
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case is we have detective sudor and his partner go out we have a suspicious individual now we have detective Suitor
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dead and we have law enforcement saying hey we're locking down this neighborhood
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we're going to check anybody coming in and out and we have award money for a possible cop killer
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$215,000 for information leading to the perpetrator of the killer of sha suder and this case continued to be
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investigated as a homicide with Police pursuing All Leads but startling new information came to light about two
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weeks after detective Shan suder was killed that merged his unsolved murder case with another high-profile case
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rocking the city of Baltimore this new information suddenly changed the way people were looking at things and
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introduced new potential theories regarding sud's death on November 30th so 15 days after detective sudor was
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shot a Federal grand jury handed down an indictment of a Baltimore Police sergeant and several officers on the
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force what was learned is that detective sudor was scheduled to testify in front
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of this grand jury on the day after he was shot so on November 16th 2017 sudor was scheduled to be a witness
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against Sergeant Wayne Jenkins in the Federal Criminal Case and sudor had multiple texts and phone calls with his
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lawyer in the two days before he was shot his lawyer was seeking a meeting presumably to discuss his testimony that
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would never come to be but even without suor the case was a slam dunk Federal prosecutors had the goods on a slew of
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crooked cops including wiretapping recordings where the Crooked detectives admitted to various illegal activities
00:31:14
including selling drugs M okay now that everything is nice and messy let's talk something through before we go any
00:31:23
further because even though police are looking for a cop killer those outside of the department are saying wait a
00:31:29
minute this is a mysterious death this detective's death is likely more of a mystery than first thought all right so
00:31:37
the most basic breakdown of theories and there are three is this one Shan sudor was murdered a suspicious random person
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killed him to which police gave a vague description of and per the autopsy determination of homicide police were
00:31:54
still pursuing the unknown gunmen two this kind of started with the media Shan sud may have taken his own life it was
00:32:02
determined he was killed with his service Weapon by close contact gunshot wound and the gun was found under his
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body three so then you have what some of the public were thinking Sean suder was
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set to testify against corruption inside the police force and detectives he worked with or for and he was silenced
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and his death was a hit he was murdered potentially by one of his own right let's look more at detective Wayne
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Jenkins the one that was uh the sergeant who was indicted Jenkins was the supervisor in charge of the gun Trace
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task force a group of Baltimore Law Enforcement Officers tasked with getting guns off of the streets Federal
00:32:48
authorities brought down a wide ranging indictment that alleged members of the task force engaged in a pattern of
00:32:54
corruption including robbing citizens framing people stealing confiscated drugs and then reselling them they are
00:33:02
also falsifying Court reports and earning fraudulent overtime pay mhm Six Gun Trace Task Force officers pled
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guilty to these charges two others did not resulting in their trials Wayne Jenkins the leader of the gun Trace task
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force was charged with racketeering conspiracy robbery illegal use of a firearm well like we talked about on the
00:33:26
phone little bit this seems really when you start investigating this aspect of the case it
00:33:34
very much seems like the movie Training Day yes in in in parts of American Gangster as well yeah and when you watch
00:33:42
that movie you think to yourself there is no way this would happen in real life and then you see a case brought to light
00:33:49
like this and you start going well maybe uh a movie like that hits closer to home
00:33:54
than we would we wish it would yeah and for those of the people listening that are not familiar with Shan suter's case
00:34:02
this is not our speculation this happened this is real life it happened we have individuals that pled guilty and
00:34:09
others that were later found guilty so the gun Trace task force was essentially a rogue unit comprised of corrupt
00:34:16
officers disguised as an Elite Force of public protectors according to Vox magazine the police officers in the unit
00:34:24
engaged in a yearslong pattern of criminal activities they set people up for baseless searches they robbed people
00:34:32
of drugs and guns among other things they clocked overtime when they weren't working at all in fact when they were on
00:34:39
vacation or on leave they were billing the department for overtime pay they used illegally placed GPS trackers to
00:34:48
locate and Rob drug dealers and others they planted evidence and filmed themselves finding it well as far as
00:34:55
hold on so as far as as the overtime I'm assuming that this is like a task force
00:35:01
that is run by itself meaning that if you let's say I'm the boss right because there's no way I'm working for you but
00:35:10
let's just say I'm the boss okay you're Sergeant Wayne Jenkins in this portion of the story I
00:35:16
guess okay say I'm a flaming pile of [ __ ] but you work for me and you say I'm going on vacation but I want paid mhm
00:35:25
well you just submit your time sheet to me and then I submit it to the department like the head Department yeah
00:35:32
cuz you could sign off on it and then submit it to to the department itself right so then if I wanted something done
00:35:38
nobody's double-checking my work either so that's kind of how we don't know if these guys were corrupt before they
00:35:46
joined the task force but once they become a part of this task force they go hey we run things a little different
00:35:52
here you want to get paid while you're not working we can help you do that right and and while you're doing that
00:35:59
you're also going to turn the other way why we take drug uh we take drugs from drug dealers and sell them mhm or or Rob
00:36:08
them for their money or whatever so it's it's a separate unit and and I think that's very important it wasn't like
00:36:16
there was a lot of checks and balances to make sure these guys weren't doing crup things right if that makes any
00:36:23
sense for the most part it it it appears that what they were doing a large part of what they were doing was stealing
00:36:31
from people that had no recourse against the police right you know they're going
00:36:35
after people that are doing Petty crimes selling drugs M you know making money off of drugs and if you're a drug dealer
00:36:42
and I'm a an officer of the law and I go and Shake You Down and Rob you of all your drug money I mean what are you
00:36:51
going to do you're going to go file a police report saying hey this officer stole my drug money right you know it
00:36:56
just it doesn't work out they participated in some home invasions as well what have been classified as home
00:37:02
invasions I'm assuming that's kicking in the door of a known drug dealer and stealing their weapons money and Drugs
00:37:10
in total the gun Trace task force members are suspected of stealing at least $300,000 in Cash 3 kilos of
00:37:18
cocaine 43 lbs of marijuana 800 G of heroin and jewelry worth hundreds of thousands of dollars wow now the the
00:37:26
indictment of Wayne Jenkins related among other things to an arrest he made in 2010 on a case where he was partnered
00:37:35
with Shan suder the two detectives were investigating large scale drug dealers sudor and Jenkins became involved in an
00:37:43
unmarked vehicle pursuit of another car driven by one Umar Burley basically Umar
00:37:51
Burley says he believed that the officers were trying to rob him so he fled and now we have a car chase right Burley
00:38:00
crashed into another car the driver of that car was Albert Davis an 87-year-old father of a Baltimore Police Officer he
00:38:08
was killed and his wife was seriously injured mhm after the accident sudor and Jenkins arrested Burley and Jenkins
00:38:16
directed sudor to search burley's vehicle according to the Federal indictment documents unbeknownst to
00:38:22
sudor Jenkins had planted drugs in burley's car sudor found 28 G of heroin in the vehicle so this is to justify the
00:38:31
car chase that sends Burley and an associate who was also in the car to prison for federal drug offenses after
00:38:38
suter's death us attorney Steven shanning said the federal prosecutors did not get a chance to discuss sud's
00:38:45
testimony with him prior to his death sudor was offered limited immunity to testify about Umar Bradley's case but we
00:38:53
don't know what else the grand jury would have asked him about or where his testimony would have led the
00:38:59
investigation Police Commissioner Davis held a press conference and said quote what this indictment outlines in great
00:39:06
detail is the fact that sha Suter wasn't involved in any way shape or form in any
00:39:12
criminal misconduct whatsoever end quote however it appears that Shan sudor was actually potentially in a lot of trouble
00:39:20
there was a federal grand jury investigation into corrupt cops that extended to the highest levels of the
00:39:26
police force sudor worked closely and at length with several of the named corrupt
00:39:32
cops over the course of his career sud worked extensively with at least three of the officers indicted in connection
00:39:38
with the corruption of the gun Trace task force I know you're speaking English but it doesn't make any sense to
00:39:43
me so what you're saying on one hand is that they're saying sudor had nothing to
00:39:49
do with this the police commissioner says the police commissioner is saying he he did nothing wrong mhm and then but
00:39:55
you also say saying hey he was going to testify and we're going to offer him limited amounts of immunity right
00:40:03
meaning well he did something wrong where they're going to give him immunity for but are there other things that
00:40:10
they're not going to give him immunity for so it's that's very confusing okay so I'm kind of just dissecting this
00:40:18
myself and and giving my uh opinion here on what that means my guess is that they
00:40:24
spoke to him about some of his testimony what he was going to be willing to testify towards against these officers
00:40:33
right okay so we're going to say you have immunity on those particular aspects of our investigation however
00:40:40
during the course of your your testimony you could be asked any number of questions that could go outside of the
00:40:47
box that could go away from those particular cases those particular aspects of their investigation yeah in
00:40:54
the course of that we made learn new information that now we figure out you're not completely on the up and up
00:41:01
Mr sudor and we can pursue charges against you for information later learned now what the commissioner is is
00:41:11
saying in a lot of words basically when you break that down is sudor was there to rat out these other officers that his
00:41:22
testimony wasn't he wasn't going to be put on the stand in front of the grand jury because he was under investigation
00:41:30
he's simply going to be there to testify because we need witnesses to this illegal activity a lot of this illegal
00:41:36
activity is going down and the only people witnessing it are other corrupt cops right and criminals known criminals
00:41:44
that they are victimizing so basically they're saying once we get you on the stand and we yell we want the truth and
00:41:50
I ask you can you handle the truth and then I tell you that I issued a code red that I still might go to jail for that
00:41:58
right he could be open he could open himself up to investigation per his testimony and again it's not like it's
00:42:05
not a situation where they go okay here's these 10 questions this is what we're going to ask you and that's it and
00:42:10
that's all no it's you are you are there and you are to give us your knowledge of
00:42:15
anything we ask you questions about it could be anything at all right but on top of that we have the chief of police
00:42:22
saying hey based on what we know and based on what we believe that he did not do any illegal criminal activity as a
00:42:33
law enforcement officer correct that's what the commissioner is saying now where people call that into question is
00:42:39
sud's lengthy career stating you know he would have worked with some of these individuals at some point in his career
00:42:45
now let's name a few of them we know he worked with Wayne Jenkins who was pretty
00:42:49
much the ring leader of this of these corrupt cops right he's the Denzel Washington in Training Day yeah he also
00:42:57
worked with or Josh Brolin from uh American Gangster um he also worked with detectives Maurice Ward and mamadu gond
00:43:07
so Ward and gondo both pled guilty to federal charges so now we have to wonder what that leaves the public wondering
00:43:13
about what did sha sudor know about these illicit activities and his fellow detectives did he know and just choose
00:43:21
to look the other way was he in fact ratting them out like the commissioner would have us believe or did he
00:43:29
participate joining in with these corrupt officers and being in on the take right or was it again like Training
00:43:36
Day what a lot of things that happened was Denzel Washington's character would set up Ethan Hawk's character mhm and
00:43:46
say hey go ahead and rep me out go ahead and tell them I did this and they're going to drug test you and guess what
00:43:54
you got PCP in your system mhm so again it could be one of those situations where we don't know what sudor is going
00:44:01
to say because is sudor going to not say certain things therefore not incriminating himself does that make
00:44:09
sense oh yeah and and just to give you a little uh thought of where my feelings were when researching this case MH right
00:44:18
from the get-go in the very beginning I'm like oh my God this guy was a hero he was a a veteran officer of a
00:44:26
well-respected homicide detective out just doing a good job and he was killed in the line of duty right and then you
00:44:33
find out about all this corruption and you start to wonder was he just another dirty cop in this big story here right
00:44:42
and the thing that I had to kind of remind myself of is what you just talked about training day where Ethan Hawk is
00:44:49
almost forced into a position he never thought he would be in he was he just wanted to be in that drug task force
00:44:55
right and he gets in there and he finds out they're doing illegal activity and Denzel Washington's like you're going to
00:45:01
go along with this right and we're going to force you to we're going to bully you
00:45:06
into doing our illegal activity right and at the end of the day you go oh well Ethan Hawk his character good guy mhm
00:45:16
saves the day but if you go back through that movie there's a lot of stuff that was incriminating or criminal activity
00:45:24
that he took place in and so therefore he could still get in trouble for that training day I know we're getting
00:45:29
sidetracked here but training day is one of my favorite that's a great movie like
00:45:33
King Kong ain't got [ __ ] on me rarely can I go back and watch a movie multiple
00:45:38
times training day I've watched multiple times and here is when you for me this is when I know somebody's like a
00:45:46
extremely fine actor Denzel Washington who I I mean I'm a big fan of I've watched many of his movies but when an
00:45:56
actor can become a bad guy when he's playing a bad guy and he's you're not used to him being a bad guy MH and he
00:46:04
does it so well that you want to punch him in the face that's an actor that's a damn a damn fine actor right there in
00:46:11
the face I'm going on record right here I want to punch Denzel Washington's character in the face in the face now to
00:46:19
date Captain six indicted detectives have plad guilty and been sentenced the ring leader Wayne Jenkins got 25 years
00:46:27
clap clap two detectives who plad not guilty were convicted by a federal jury on several federal charges MH here's the
00:46:37
other sketchy thing though here it's unclear whether sha suder was ever actually part or a part of the gun Trace
00:46:45
task force there are reports out there that says he was early on but asked to be removed from this task force right
00:46:53
again and again look that's a sticky situation because if you are a good cop and you see bad stuff happening and
00:47:01
these guys are doing really bad stuff we're talking about stealing drugs stealing money we're talking about
00:47:07
robbing uh gang members we're talking about robbing drug dealers we're talking about
00:47:12
planning evidence on those people after you arrest them I mean this is some bad stuff so if you're in that situation you
00:47:21
can't just go hey hey uh sge uh well I don't like what's going on here uh can you uh I'm going to have to arrest you
00:47:29
all you know take in MH no you can't do that you have to go this is some bad stuff going on let me get out of this
00:47:38
department well and here's the thing too when you really dive into what these corrupt members of the task force were
00:47:45
doing it's almost like at some point they became completely out of control themselves like in Training Day like in
00:47:52
American Gangster where these Rogue cops all of a sudden they they are like you said King Kong ain't got nothing on me
00:47:59
there's nobody bigger than me I can do whatever I want that that at some point that is the behavior that took over
00:48:06
there's in fact there's one story of these corrupt cops where they are breaking up a riot okay and the riers
00:48:14
were looting the area and after they broke up the riot and made some arrest these officers decided to keep and steal
00:48:22
basically steal the looted items from the rioter oh right so if the riers stole TVs and stuff they went yeah we're
00:48:31
not going to give these back well you just go we can't find it you know we we don't know what happened to this we
00:48:36
don't know where those TVs went and if anybody wants to know what it's like to drink with the
00:48:43
colonel all you have to do is watch that scene of King Kong ain't [ __ ] on me that's that I mean that's that's
00:48:51
basically an impersonation of you when you're at the peak of drunkness I become bulletproof I still think you
00:48:59
know listen up people when you ride in and say I'd love to have a beer with the captain you're making a mistake okay cuz
00:49:09
first of all I like to do the shots you're not going to be able to keep up but second of all I'm not the party
00:49:15
animal of the group it's the colonel he becomes the Kentucky Fried no what's the one
00:49:23
extra crisp colel extra crisp hey I wish I had that tan if you don't believe me come see us at crime con uh in New
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Orleans this year yeah we have our uh our code yeah what's our promo code we have a promo code on our website and
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we'll mention that at the end of the show you can get a discount on your crime Con tickets using that code yeah
00:49:43
but anyways the evidence will be at crime con and you'll see video footage and and pictures and you will know that
00:49:50
the extra crispy Colonel is Alive and Well is that's that's the one you want to party with well but so just to kind
00:49:57
of clean this up though yeah you know from an outsider's perspective you have to wonder was you you have one of two
00:50:04
things either Shan Suter was an awesome cop was very good at his job was a clean
00:50:10
cop or you do have there is enough stuff out there to wonder if he wasn't so on the up and up and a lot of that is a is
00:50:20
a leap a lot of that is a jump but what that comes from is knowing that he work worked with at least three of these
00:50:28
detectives that were later convicted yeah but look at these guys that were convicted they got what they deserve
00:50:35
time in person and if detective suor was a dirty cop he would have got we would have found evidence of this and we would
00:50:43
have he would have done time and that's he would have got what he deserved this is not what he deserved
00:50:51
right no matter if he was a dirty cop or not he's he's killed in the line of duty
00:50:56
and we don't know why mhm or a possible suicide mhm I mean this is very strange well and the way that these little the
00:51:06
way that these gangs work whether they be cop bad cops or real you know street gangs or anything like that most of the
00:51:14
time the way that this works is they bust one guy they get some information from this one guy he starts talking now
00:51:22
they got other people to investigate they start other people in and these corrupt cops most of them gave a wealth
00:51:31
of information about what was going on that's what led to them pleading guilty to these charges and others being
00:51:38
convicted who didn't plead guilty now out of all of those officers it's my understanding that only one of them was
00:51:47
implicating Shan sudor in having any involvement at all with this group after the November 30th 2017 indictments
00:51:56
against members of the gun Trace task force the US attorney's office filed a petition to vacate the federal
00:52:03
convictions of Umar Burley and his associate those were the two involved in the car chase and later the car accident
00:52:10
that led to the older man's death they vacated this because it was proved that the drugs were planted on them and that
00:52:17
they were not actually guilty of the crimes they were convicted of when the indictments were handed down
00:52:24
commissioner Davis disbanded the gun Trace task force describing the indicted officers as 1930 style gangsters now
00:52:32
3,000 pass cases handled by the unit members have been called into question and who knows how many convictions will
00:52:39
be thrown out hundreds have already been vacated yeah clearly Davis did not do a
00:52:45
good job the commissioner of overseeing the police department this is because obviously this Rogue unit was allowed to
00:52:52
run rampant for years under his watch this would eventually end Davis's career but before so commissioner Davis stated
00:53:01
in a press conference that he only learned of suter's planned grand jury testimony after suter's death he also
00:53:09
stated that investigating officers found no connection between detective suter's
00:53:14
murder and his planned testimony he also said that sudor was not the target of the federal investigation which was
00:53:22
confirmed by the US attorney's office Davis said there was no information he was aware of that indicated that
00:53:28
detective sudor was anything other than a stellar detective great friend loving husband and great
00:53:35
father commissioner Davis wrote a highly publicized letter to FBI director Christopher Ray formally requesting that
00:53:43
the FBI take over the shooting of detective suor investigation Davis said that it was because he suspected that
00:53:51
there was information about the murder that the feds had access to that the Baltimore Police Department did not FBI
00:53:59
involvement was supported by sud's Family Nicole sud Sutter's Widow apparently told the mayor that she
00:54:06
supported the FBI taking over the case yeah and this is because once people start leaning towards this idea that
00:54:14
detective suor took his own life mhm this is something that she she welcomed investigation right but also you're
00:54:24
going to have people investigate a case where he was possibly involved in wrongdoings with other officers and
00:54:33
you're going to have that department how can you trust that department to head this investigation right so okay now the
00:54:43
FBI doesn't want to head that investigation yeah so to be clear they agreed to assist in the investigation
00:54:50
but they publicly stated they did not want to lead the investigation fine with me right if I'm if I'm a loved one fine
00:54:58
with me at least they're involved and if they're involved I'm going to trust the
00:55:03
investigation a lot more this is coming from his his widow which talked to him I
00:55:08
believe within an hour of his death right and so she was on the phone and they were talking about some video where
00:55:15
he was you know dancing or something and somebody took you know caught him dancing and they're making fun of it you
00:55:21
know and just joking around and she just said that he seemed very normal mhm so we have this cop that we it's
00:55:28
it's so weird because we have so many people saying this guy's a good cop and a good and a good dude on top of that
00:55:36
his wife is saying he wasn't suicidal right and then you start going well again do you get any benefits is
00:55:44
his family going to get any benefits I mean it was it wasn't just him and his wife they had a lot they had five
00:55:51
children a lot of kids so the thing here is you know when when this came forward
00:55:57
that this is a possible suicide rather than a homicide Sutter's family has been extremely vocal saying we believe it was
00:56:06
a homicide we believe that there's evidence to point that would indicate that it was a homicide and they've been
00:56:13
extremely vocal about that and you know what commissioner Davis is obviously a flawed commissioner we know that we have
00:56:21
this Rogue task force that is out there doing whatever the hell they want under his watch but I'm sure throughout his
00:56:28
career he did do a good deal of good things along the way right now one thing well and mind you I mean there's
00:56:35
hundreds of officers so the idea that you have one person that's responsible for all those officers you how anybody
00:56:45
gets out of that job with a good name I I don't know how it happens you can't babysit every officer every minute of
00:56:53
the day it's you're one person now one thing I think we should give credit to commissioner Davis for this was before
00:57:00
he was fired is requesting the FBI come in and take over this investigation yeah
00:57:05
that to me shows a couple of things it shows smarts on his part because one he wants to be transparent he knows that he
00:57:12
has a police department that is under the scrutiny of the Public's eye which they should be because they some members
00:57:20
and we Shady we need to be very clear about that some members of the police department were very much guilty of
00:57:27
illegal activities some members were Shady that's that's a a hardcore fact MH so commissioner Davis bringing in the
00:57:35
FBI is a couple things one to be transparent and it could not hurt to have an outside agency take a good look
00:57:43
at this investigation to take a good look at this case and try to solve it for them yeah and then on the other
00:57:51
spectrum of it too you know like I said if you Comm commit suicide I don't think
00:57:55
you're getting I don't think the officer's family is going to get support I don't
00:58:02
think they're going to get certain benefits MH but if he is killed on the line of duty they're taken care of mhm
00:58:11
and pretty well so then one could argue are they just saying hey it's impossible
00:58:16
that he would kill himself because they benefit from that and that's something that you have to
00:58:23
look into I Believe by watching the interviews with his widow that she she just wants the truth to be told right I
00:58:32
don't think she cares about the benefits or not well after commissioner Davis was
00:58:36
eventually fired he was replaced as police commissioner in January of 2018 by veteran Daryl dusa dusa lasted less
00:58:47
than 6 months as the police commissioner he stepped down in May after being indicted for federal tax evasion
00:58:55
one thing dusa did before he departed he set up an independent review board to look into the unsolved killing of
00:59:03
detective [Music] sud so thanks everybody for joining us in the garage today we'll be right back
00:59:11
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