Speaker 1: So there's this video and you're seeing the inside of
Speaker 1: a Nissan Altimo with a black leather interior. In the
Speaker 1: center console you can see a water bottle, keys, and
Speaker 1: a cell phone. And you can also see the right
Speaker 1: arm of the driver who's holding the camera. He's got
Speaker 1: an intricate sleeve tattoo. In the center is the symbol
Speaker 1: for the one hundred and eighty seventh Airborne, the famous
Speaker 1: US Army unit whose history dates back to World War Two.
Speaker 1: The air conditioner is at full blast. It's in the
Speaker 1: nineties today in Denver. You see seven seven seventy five
Speaker 1: in Denver, Colorado. Today is August twenty five, approximately two
Speaker 1: fifty pm. The man you're hearing is an FBI undercover
Speaker 1: agent number seven seven seven five. U SEE is the
Speaker 1: FBI's acronym for undercover employee. This FBI guy, he's going
Speaker 1: by the nickname Red. I don't know his real name.
Speaker 1: What happened a few minutes into the recording, Mickey walks
Speaker 1: up to the Nissan Ultima. Red rolls down his window
Speaker 1: and he notices Mickey's broken finger. Where'd you do that thing?
Speaker 1: I would to sturge you, some fucking drunk driver hid
Speaker 1: on his fucking wife, just cutting my handlebars. Mickey then
Speaker 1: walks over to his car and read sitting in the
Speaker 1: Ultima seems to think Mickey looks ridiculous. As he gets
Speaker 1: behind the wheel of a silver hearse ohly shit. Red
Speaker 1: then follows Mickey. He's listening to the radio as he drives.
Speaker 1: A few minutes later, Red pulls into the parking lot
Speaker 1: of a TGI Friday's. Mickey walks up to him again.
Speaker 1: He's pretty laid back. He's trying to pump in. You'll
Speaker 1: see he's kind of mental in some fucking ways. Mickey
Speaker 1: means Bryce Shelby, the activist with the vague plot to
Speaker 1: assassinate Colorado as Attorney General. Mickey's about to introduce Bryce
Speaker 1: to Red, the friend he'd been talking about, the outlaw biker,
Speaker 1: the no fuck around guy. I'm Trevor Aaronson from Western
Speaker 1: Sound and I Heeart podcasts. This is Alphabet Boys, episode seven.
Speaker 1: They call me Juice. Mickey Windecker, the FBI's informant, has
Speaker 1: his sights on two targets, zeb Hall and Bryce Shelby.
Speaker 1: He tried to roll them up over lunch at Famous
Speaker 1: Daves into a single conspiracy, but zeb had said he's
Speaker 1: not ready. So now in this episode, Mickey's going after Bryce,
Speaker 1: just Bryce. Before we get there. I just want to
Speaker 1: remind you of the timeline. It's a bit confusing since
Speaker 1: so much happens over the span of one week. The
Speaker 1: attacks on the police buildings in Denver the ones Mickey
Speaker 1: hyped up, they happened from August twenty second to August
Speaker 1: twenty ninth, twenty twenty. At the beginning of that week,
Speaker 1: Mickey invited zeb Hall and Bryce Shelby to lunch at
Speaker 1: a famous Dave's Barbecue restaurant. That's when Bryce discusses with
Speaker 1: Mickey an idea to target Colorado's Attorney general. So you're
Speaker 1: thinking for sure they're the eight gene Yeah right, and
Speaker 1: zeb offers crazy talk about navigating Denver sewers at the
Speaker 1: weeks before days happened, they're always by the always buy Yeah.
Speaker 1: After this meeting, Mickey had gone up to his FBI handler,
Speaker 1: agent Scott Dahlstrom, and suggested that Bryce was serious about
Speaker 1: an assassination plot. Trony generals your target. So that's the timeline.
Speaker 1: Now it's August twenty fifth, a Tuesday, and we're at
Speaker 1: a TGI Friday's Mickey is planning to introduce Bryce to Red,
Speaker 1: the friend you'd been talking about, the no fuck around guy.
Speaker 1: Before Bryce arrives at the restaurant, Mickey and Red are
Speaker 1: there with another demonstrator named Mark, who knows Bryce from
Speaker 1: the protest scene, and Mickey is describing how he knows Red,
Speaker 1: which is of course a bullshit story no one read
Speaker 1: for like a decade. We met at seventy sturgeonies, because
Speaker 1: it's ten years now, so it's like eighty. I saw
Speaker 1: him again, like a couple of weeks ago, and it
Speaker 1: was a girl, because like the Special Force community is
Speaker 1: like very small, even though like you know, Kurdish like that,
Speaker 1: you're still talking film and something that I hate to
Speaker 1: say it, but I had to check on him. And
Speaker 1: a couple other guys from the Fifth were like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we know boot me as he's cool as a high
Speaker 1: pre and I just wanted to make sure because he's
Speaker 1: something that's a good qualtro, he's got something, He's got
Speaker 1: some top notch shit, So okay, I just want to
Speaker 1: highlight the absurdity here for a minute. Mickey the guy
Speaker 1: who got booted out of the Peshmerga, and I Rock
Speaker 1: for being a fraud and a liability to the fighters there.
Speaker 1: It's claiming to have been in the Peshmerga's special forces,
Speaker 1: and that's where he met others in the special forces community,
Speaker 1: including apparently Rhett, a retired American soldier. Mickey says he's
Speaker 1: called around to his special Forces contacts and they all
Speaker 1: vouch for Rhet, who Mickey says, has quote some top
Speaker 1: notch shit, and what he means by top not shit is,
Speaker 1: of course weapons. Anything you guys are going to do.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know their price is like plans exactly,
Speaker 1: but yeah, yeah, absolutely. But he's unfortunately I'm not in
Speaker 1: operational because the probably amputain motherfucker. Mickey's talking about his
Speaker 1: broken finger again. That'll suck. If you lose that, then,
Speaker 1: oh man, I'll be mad as fun because I gotta
Speaker 1: like I'm to be like one of the prosthetic three
Speaker 1: print ones on there. And it's not like shifting my
Speaker 1: little Captain book, but my nosepicker, my twat rab. A
Speaker 1: few minutes later, Bryce arrives, what's up. What's you up too? Fine?
Speaker 1: It's good for me right on. So the dairy man Bryce,
Speaker 1: this is much red. This is Bryce Juice man, they
Speaker 1: call me Juice. Juice, right, yeah, Bryce tells the FBI
Speaker 1: undercover agent his nickname is Juice. They call me Juice.
Speaker 1: He says, yeah, let me get a strawberry lemonade. Mickey
Speaker 1: then starts telling Bryce about his friend Red and how
Speaker 1: his fellow members of the Special Forces community vouch for him.
Speaker 1: Leg all your ship you want to do, that's my boy,
Speaker 1: that's good. I'm just gonna help your drinking. I don't
Speaker 1: even know what the fuck we're fighting. I just know
Speaker 1: that these people that run shit are not for us.
Speaker 1: I'm some regular Joe civilian, but if I need to
Speaker 1: see this coming, I'm not just gonna stand by my family.
Speaker 1: That could be next. I got the district attorney's address.
Speaker 1: This does an I keep voiceing the attorney. Bryce is
Speaker 1: still confusing the two positions, the two different elected officials,
Speaker 1: the district attorney and the attorney general. Red and Mickey
Speaker 1: asked Bryce if he's been to the address, So you
Speaker 1: went check it out, so but have you have you?
Speaker 1: Have you been in it? Have? I just like neighborhood itself,
Speaker 1: like it looks pretty quiet. So it's really a matter
Speaker 1: of what time did this motherfucker get home because nobody's outside,
Speaker 1: or you just hear some pops, we're going, okay, neighborhood
Speaker 1: cheating neighborhood, like one of them in close kind of
Speaker 1: in neighborhoods. You know a lot of the streets like
Speaker 1: not no gates, no gates help. So I'm just thinking,
Speaker 1: I don't know, like I would like to get multiple
Speaker 1: people at one time, but obvious, so you gotta keep
Speaker 1: this small, you know what I mean. So it's like,
Speaker 1: who's the who's somebody we can we can get this.
Speaker 1: This motherfucker is the one overseeing all these cases, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. So this, my fucker is the
Speaker 1: one overseeing all these cases. Bryce says, again he's confusing
Speaker 1: the two offices. The Attorney General isn't prosecuting demonstrators, that's
Speaker 1: the district attorney. Nobody knows they're here beside me and him.
Speaker 1: All right. None of my people from my circles, None
Speaker 1: of my people is circled that I know. I like,
Speaker 1: she tow somebody even I didn't know. I don't know
Speaker 1: about compartmentalize basis I ganged banks. You're like, that's what
Speaker 1: this is? Another mission me? But on this Red suggested
Speaker 1: Bryce that they take a drive to scout out the
Speaker 1: Attorney General's house. All right, well, I think we got
Speaker 1: to roll by it. Okay, I got the hand crash.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you're good with it, you're called. But
Speaker 1: see what the options are at that point. Right. A
Speaker 1: few minutes later, Mickey leaves, saying he has somewhere else
Speaker 1: to be. Now Bryson Red can talk about Mickey without
Speaker 1: him hearing. Bryce asked Red if he and Mickey had
Speaker 1: serve together, not directly with them. No, we met here,
Speaker 1: but I spent twenty years in the military, spent eleven
Speaker 1: years overseas. Thank you for your shirt? What bridge? Red
Speaker 1: then shift the conversation back to the plot to murder
Speaker 1: the Attorney general. I mean, I think what you were saying,
Speaker 1: I think you can accomplish that goal, whether than a
Speaker 1: man that would allow you to be somewhere the next
Speaker 1: day versus brine, and then you can continue to be
Speaker 1: who you want to be, not somebody's right, right exactly.
Speaker 1: That's my nickname. That's my nickname. They called me juid.
Speaker 1: I didn't pull that on the pass. There's a way
Speaker 1: to pull this off, Red says, and not splatter your
Speaker 1: juice on the wall. Rice likes the joke anyway. Bryce
Speaker 1: is adamant that he's serious about all this, but he's
Speaker 1: still confusing the title of the guy he is supposedly
Speaker 1: plotting to assassinate. How is this going to change? Will
Speaker 1: people understand what happened? Well, they just hired another da
Speaker 1: back to the old ways, right. Red tells Bryce that
Speaker 1: he's here to help because Mickey asked him to help.
Speaker 1: That's why he called me. Yeah right, that's why I'm here, Guessa.
Speaker 1: I am a favor here it is, but the favorite
Speaker 1: Bryce really wants. The reason it seems he even took
Speaker 1: this meeting is to find someone to fix his rifle,
Speaker 1: which has a bullet jammed in it. Would you mind
Speaker 1: looking at my rifle? Bro? That's what I do every day, alright,
Speaker 1: That's all. That's all I need to That's about here, bro, Hu,
Speaker 1: That's that's really it for me. I'm I'll go all try,
Speaker 1: nobody try. That's really it for me. Bryce is telling
Speaker 1: Red that's all he wants, fix my rifle and I'll
Speaker 1: go kill the guy myself. Red, not wanting Bryce to
Speaker 1: go on his own, suggest instead that they plan this
Speaker 1: thing together. You gotta think about your like you gotta
Speaker 1: give it some thought, and not in terms of I'm
Speaker 1: not arguing with you in terms of your endgame. I'm
Speaker 1: saying you gotta give it some thought as to the
Speaker 1: how I think we ought to take a ride and
Speaker 1: just go see there's no harm in that. Red suggests
Speaker 1: that he and Bryce drive to the Attorney General's house
Speaker 1: to scope it out more. After the break, he was
Speaker 1: basically asked me, like, would be my plan? How would
Speaker 1: I do it? And shit like that, and I was
Speaker 1: really just saying, like movie shit, cut his lights off,
Speaker 1: kicking the door. I'm not I don't got no real
Speaker 1: fucking plan to do this. Shit. This is Bryce Shelby.
Speaker 1: I've asked him about his conversation with the FBI undercover
Speaker 1: agent Red and his supposed plot to kill Colorado as
Speaker 1: attorney general, whom Bryce kept getting mixed up with the
Speaker 1: district attorney. I'm not sitting in my fucking room writing
Speaker 1: up fucking a damn blueprint and what the fuck I'm
Speaker 1: I don't even know who the nigga was. So I
Speaker 1: think a listener would say, like, well, why did you
Speaker 1: talk about it? I guess I don't know. That's just
Speaker 1: how you feel at a moment like, I'm gonna kill
Speaker 1: that motherfucker. You've said that about a lot of people
Speaker 1: that pisched you off in life listeners. You ain't never
Speaker 1: killed him for real, have you. This assassination plot, though,
Speaker 1: ends up being a little more than talk. Bryce had
Speaker 1: the Attorney General's home address. He said he got it
Speaker 1: from another demonstrator who, trying to be provocative, had read
Speaker 1: off a bunch of elected officials home addresses during a speech.
Speaker 1: So Red, the undercover agent, suggest they drive out to
Speaker 1: the house, maybe come up with a more concrete plan.
Speaker 1: Bryce agrees to go on the right over. They keep
Speaker 1: talking and Bryce is acting like a tough guy. So
Speaker 1: what are you thinking? I guess. I mean, let's let's
Speaker 1: just put it this way. If you could have it
Speaker 1: any way, you want just chest that motherfucker hopping out
Speaker 1: of his car, Because originally I was thinking set the
Speaker 1: power off and come through the window or something like that,
Speaker 1: and should you're talking about Rambo, Yeah, But then I
Speaker 1: got to thinking that's too much shit. I got a
Speaker 1: big gass rifle, I got a hold, I gotta you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, And that's what I'm thinking. I
Speaker 1: think about back back to like forensics, tracing and shit
Speaker 1: like that, versus not getting none of that ship on
Speaker 1: you at all. Motherfucker, hop out the car, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean? Popping bam. I'm still talking about forensics
Speaker 1: right there. Yeah, but that's a lot less forensics. So
Speaker 1: I see what he's saying. The FBI agent is being
Speaker 1: generous here for the sake of the undercover sting. Bryce
Speaker 1: is talking a bunch of nonsense as far as like, actually,
Speaker 1: just body niggas up, like nah, that that day in
Speaker 1: my phone. You're trying to hurt me though, while I
Speaker 1: would mind him my own business, all right, Yeah, now okay,
Speaker 1: you're gonna see about you here in one second. Bryce
Speaker 1: then begins to describe to Red how he wasn't interested
Speaker 1: in any sort of violence when he first started protesting Mickey,
Speaker 1: he says, pushed him in that direction, and when I
Speaker 1: met Mickey, yeah, that was like that was like the
Speaker 1: first thing he said. He was like, He's like, we're
Speaker 1: at the impast. A lot of people like thought he
Speaker 1: was a complicate and they made him start talking. Then
Speaker 1: he pulled out his fucking prison. I d like, yeah,
Speaker 1: there's that no cab for sure. Red then ass price
Speaker 1: what he knows about the guy whose house they're driving too.
Speaker 1: What do you know about this guy's attorney general? Because
Speaker 1: all this family M I think he has. I think
Speaker 1: he has one kid and a wife, but that might
Speaker 1: be his Those might just be relative, you know, like
Speaker 1: on voter registration it doesn't say who's what. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think he has one kid and a wife. I don't
Speaker 1: know how all this kid is either healthy forty me
Speaker 1: in too early forties, early to me and forties. Like
Speaker 1: I say, when's he granting office? About four years? I
Speaker 1: want to save about forty years. Okay, I want to
Speaker 1: pause for a minute, because Bryce he gets almost everything
Speaker 1: wrong about Colorado as attorney general at the time a
Speaker 1: guy named phil Wiser. Phil Weiser is married, that much
Speaker 1: is true, but he has two children, not one. At
Speaker 1: the time Bryce and Red are having this conversation, Wiser
Speaker 1: is fifty two years old, not in his early to
Speaker 1: mid forties, and he was elected in twenty eighteen, and
Speaker 1: as this conversation is happening, has been in office for
Speaker 1: less than two years, not as Bryce says, four or
Speaker 1: five years. Anyway, back to the car ride, So the
Speaker 1: question I asked earlier, in a perfect situation, what happens
Speaker 1: he hops out the car. I'd say maybe about huntey
Speaker 1: yards away if that, If we could park somewhere close
Speaker 1: to that, great If not. I ain't worried about this
Speaker 1: kind of neighborhood. Like I said, it's trees and shit
Speaker 1: like that. So you know what I mean, You could
Speaker 1: do a nice little sprint before anybody ever sees anything.
Speaker 1: Gotta figure everybody's got cameras. Yeah, yeah, But you know
Speaker 1: I'm saying a purposely joys in the mount up the car.
Speaker 1: He's getting his briefcase in the backseat or whatever. Light
Speaker 1: him up a couple of times. Ain't for the head, God,
Speaker 1: damn it, Jesus Rice. This is about when they pull
Speaker 1: into the neighborhood. We pulled in front of it. We
Speaker 1: pulled in front of the school actually, and sat in
Speaker 1: the park a lot, I don't know, hundred hundred fifty
Speaker 1: yards away from the house. Bryceon Red are looking at
Speaker 1: the house. I don't know. You think I figure out
Speaker 1: his schedule. I'm gonna have to come by here with
Speaker 1: um all right, with my home gro see if I
Speaker 1: think if you think you're gonna sit outside here catch
Speaker 1: him leaving. I don't know, bro about coming home. You
Speaker 1: gotta figure comes home. He does this, The garage door
Speaker 1: goes up, he drives inside, he does this, the garage
Speaker 1: door goes down. Mhm. I mean I think there's a
Speaker 1: better chance of accomplishing your goal with something else, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, not like here. Yeah, I just think you
Speaker 1: can get the thing done and get out. Mick told me,
Speaker 1: and correct and maybe he's wrong, but he told me
Speaker 1: that one of your big concerns was making sure you
Speaker 1: did Yeah. Of course, So to fight another day. I
Speaker 1: want to see the results of if this worked or not,
Speaker 1: of course. Yeah. I'm about to figure out what car
Speaker 1: he what his car drives, and to see where he's
Speaker 1: you know, I mean where he goes from a day
Speaker 1: to day basis, you know what I mean. Trail him.
Speaker 1: I'm at to trail him. I was. I wasn't gonna
Speaker 1: start doing any this until I got back in town
Speaker 1: from Kentucky. At this point, while he's talking like some hitman,
Speaker 1: Bryce is backing out. Ever so subtly. He says he
Speaker 1: can't do anything soon because he'll be traveling. So Red
Speaker 1: suggests another possibility. He's got connections. They could hire someone
Speaker 1: to kill the attorney general. You know, it's going to
Speaker 1: cause something to put it together, That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 1: What are we looking at? Figure wise? Fix bucks? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I figured somewhere in there. Red and Bryce then drive
Speaker 1: back to the TGI Fridays where Bryce's cars parked. On
Speaker 1: the way back, Bryce confuses again the Attorney General with
Speaker 1: the district attorney DoD. I mean, do do attorney general
Speaker 1: self security? I'm sure it's at the building. I don't
Speaker 1: know if they got them, like personal protective details or anything.
Speaker 1: What Red didn't know at this point is Bryce is
Speaker 1: onto him. Bryce doesn't know a lot of things, that's
Speaker 1: for sure. He certainly doesn't know much about his elected officials.
Speaker 1: But Bryce knows this five or six hundred bucks. No
Speaker 1: way you can find a hitman to kill an elected
Speaker 1: official for five or six hundred bucks. And I just
Speaker 1: kind of like, okay, like like yeah, I'll let you know.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean, Like when you hear the
Speaker 1: motherfuckers say some bullshit and you're like, yoh, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll get right on it. I got you. Yep. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna call you yep, yep. H He's stupid, bro. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna hate you though, calling Bro Bryce. He knows something
Speaker 1: is very off. So Bryce, as you're probably figuring, doesn't
Speaker 1: assassinate Colorad as attorney general or even try to. But
Speaker 1: his rhetoric it's troubling. He did talk about killing a politician.
Speaker 1: Bryce said, just shoot him as he gets out of
Speaker 1: his car. It's on tape, secretly recorded by the FBI.
Speaker 1: Offer hope out the car. You know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Copy Man. Bryce seemed to have a kind of bloodlust
Speaker 1: in his words. Same with zeb Hal. He was like
Speaker 1: Bryce talking big, talking about violence, talking about burning the
Speaker 1: whole motherfucker down. I've seen this kind of behavior a lot,
Speaker 1: and undercover stings, the targets of the investigation talking and
Speaker 1: acting like the undercovers, who are in turn acting like
Speaker 1: bad guys terrorists, drug dealers, money launderers, con men, whatever.
Speaker 1: Humans have a tendency to mimic the behavior of people
Speaker 1: in their social groups. We all do this, some more
Speaker 1: than others, but in undercover stings there tends to be
Speaker 1: in amplifying effect. The targets of the sting either want
Speaker 1: to impress the undercovers or they're scared of the undercover agents,
Speaker 1: and so they talk and act more like bad guys.
Speaker 1: Bryce is doing this. For example, when Mickey and Red
Speaker 1: talked to Bryce about guns, he told him that his
Speaker 1: guns were illegal to bolster his image as a badass.
Speaker 1: But that isn't true. I was maintaining the image with them.
Speaker 1: I bought my ship in the pot stores, so you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. I was floating to them. You
Speaker 1: know what I mean, I'm gang banging. Whoop whooo, I'm
Speaker 1: crips and you ain't got no tattoos, no where fucking worry,
Speaker 1: oh my goddamn body. And not that that means anything,
Speaker 1: because there's gang members that don't have no tattoos at all.
Speaker 1: But I'm not in the gang book. I'm you've never
Speaker 1: been arrested like with you know what I mean with people,
Speaker 1: You know what I mean for them to profile me
Speaker 1: like that and much like that, But I was telling
Speaker 1: them that, you know what I mean, I'm thinking again,
Speaker 1: these are mercenaries and hit man, so you know I mean,
Speaker 1: we talked, We talk and killer talk more or less.
Speaker 1: Play Yeah, And then when the motherfucker was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: tell me five hundred, I got you. Well, first off,
Speaker 1: running in the streets, you're killing a political figure for
Speaker 1: way more than that. I'm saying straight up. You know
Speaker 1: what I mean, You're killing them somebody big like that
Speaker 1: for way more than five hundred dollars, So you do
Speaker 1: it a suspicious right away, just because the price was
Speaker 1: still out of line, right, Yeah, grossly, you're selling yourself grossly.
Speaker 1: That's some MS for an m like that, that's some
Speaker 1: MS just being real by ms, Bryce means millions. A
Speaker 1: murder like this would cost millions, not five hundred dollars.
Speaker 1: After they drive over to the Attorney General's house and
Speaker 1: discuss how they might kill him, Bryce never talks to
Speaker 1: Mickey or rad again. And they tried to call me
Speaker 1: and shit like that, But you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: he recognized the number. Shit like that. You just got
Speaker 1: to them at that point, bab I wasn't trying to
Speaker 1: funk with you to that the degree. In no way
Speaker 1: you really trying to do this shit. I'm I'm not
Speaker 1: doing this. I know it's not gonna in the way
Speaker 1: I wanted to end. Okay, all right, you killed a
Speaker 1: couple of our people. All Right, we're gonna change all laws,
Speaker 1: give you all reparations. Where Yeah, no, that's not gonna
Speaker 1: change anything. That's gonna piss them off more. We're really
Speaker 1: gonna start killing black people more. Yeah. I asked Bryce
Speaker 1: if he thought what happened to him and what happened
Speaker 1: with Mickey's work in Denver, we're all a continuation of
Speaker 1: the FBI's history of targeting black political activists. Bryce says, yeah,
Speaker 1: just read some history. There's a document you can find
Speaker 1: it on the end that you could google it. It's
Speaker 1: called the It's called Operation Black Messiah, and it's pretty
Speaker 1: much made to prevent the rise of any militant minded,
Speaker 1: charismatic black males, any heterosexual, stereotypical blackmails that rise to power, fame, glory, whatever.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean. Don't let him get to
Speaker 1: the people, don't let them love him too much. They'll
Speaker 1: kill for that motherfucker, and therefore they'll turn on our
Speaker 1: white asses more or less. You might know what Bryce
Speaker 1: is referring to here. There is recently a movie called
Speaker 1: Judas and the Black Messiah about the government's involvement in
Speaker 1: the killing of Black panther leader Fred Hampton during a raid. Now,
Speaker 1: there wasn't an Operation in Black Messiah, per se. What
Speaker 1: Bryce is referring to are the co Intel pro operations
Speaker 1: under FBI director j Edgar Hoover the ones that infiltrated
Speaker 1: and subverted black political groups like doctor Martin Luther King's
Speaker 1: organization and the Black Panthers. These programs were meant to
Speaker 1: prevent a black Messiah. This was Hoover's term from unifying
Speaker 1: black political groups in the United States. Bryce believes that
Speaker 1: the government is alt to destroy any increase in black
Speaker 1: political action and power. They've done it before and they're
Speaker 1: doing it again. It pisses them off. I feel like
Speaker 1: America wants us to just be quiet and let it happen.
Speaker 1: But that's so Unamerican. Like this country was started by
Speaker 1: some motherfuckers who didn't want to pay ten cents, a
Speaker 1: thirteen cents or whatever on some tea. They started a
Speaker 1: whole fucking a war, separated from their country, their motherland,
Speaker 1: over some tea. I'm wrong for wanting I guess as
Speaker 1: the government will put it. I'm wrong for wanting to
Speaker 1: go to war because you're killing us for no specifics.
Speaker 1: Over a twenty dollars tech, over a twenty dollars bill,
Speaker 1: over a kid walking, an autistic kid walking down the
Speaker 1: street dancing to his music with a mask on because
Speaker 1: he's weird like that, I'm wrong for wanting to go
Speaker 1: to war because you were killing us for small, egregious reasons.
Speaker 1: I think I'm more American than you, son of a bitches.
Speaker 1: Then the FBI is far from done with Bryce, and
Speaker 1: they're going to find a new way to draw another
Speaker 1: protester into their trap, zeb Hal. At the same time,
Speaker 1: Mickey's work for the FBI is slowly metastasizing beyond the
Speaker 1: Denver area. Mickey provides the FBI with information about demonstrators
Speaker 1: in Colorado Springs. This sets off a whole series of
Speaker 1: events that will have big consequences for Mickey. The FBI
Speaker 1: launches a new separate investigation in Colorado Springs, where a
Speaker 1: young cop is recruited to work with the FBI. She
Speaker 1: wears a long wig of pink hair. When you were
Speaker 1: marching in the housing march, were you doing that for
Speaker 1: Alora Springs Police Department? I was under the authority on
Speaker 1: how many other FBI agents were in that, marsh irrespectfully
Speaker 1: declined to answer. That's in the next episode, This is
Speaker 1: Trojan Hears Season one of Alphabet Boys. Alphabet Boys is
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