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Esqueda's case emerged as a textbook example of the lengths that some departments - along with prosecutors and other powerful local officials - will go to punish whistleblowers and scare their colleagues into silence. By undermining his department's carefully crafted narrative around Lurry's death, Esqueda crossed a sacred line drawn through the world of American policing: the unwritten rule that cops should never snitch on one another.

"I knew it was going to be bad. And I was ready for it to be bad. I knew what I was going up against," Esqueda said. "But I never thought I was going to be sitting in jail. Not for telling the truth."






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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.