Money & Drugs Keep Going Missing After Louisville Police Raids

little metro police department public integrity unit this is official statement reference case number 14. you please state your name for the record this will be a recorded statement do you solemnly swear or affirm that the testimony you're about to give will be the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth i do i seized the money because i thought it was fruits of a drug crime they took my money and said that i can't get it back how much cash was in that center console six thousand dollars how much money do you think we got here it was anywhere between 15 to 20 000 that day it was gone was that amount of money ever return to you no sir we never talked about the money that went missing it's not reported in the judicial system and it's not reported in the louisville metro's police ledgers as well so that money is gone there's no secret that these guys are pretty good about sticking money in their pocket now prior to putting the money into those bags did you take any money that not long you for your personal gain i did not [Music] they could do whatever they want when they want how they want [Music] all i know is that they stole ten thousand dollars you know them just steal for me [Music] [Music] you know i was just laying on the couch and they came and i thought it was maybe the neighbors and uh i just heard some something slight across the porch and when i heard that i happened to look up and i didn't see nobody and then uh i heard somebody announce swat and he just started knocking out the glass demetrius allison was home with his three young kids when police showed up at his door with a search warrant so i ran downstairs we can get my daughters brought them upstairs as soon as i opened the door he said put your hands up and when i put my hands up he hit me in my face with the butt of his gun it was just beating me [Music] they was just giving it to me knee in my back they whooped me pretty bad the officers justified allison's injuries which included a fractured orbital bone by saying he was resisting arrest what was it like for your kids they're terrified they're still terrified to this day of police they see police they get nervous and best believe my kids they remember that day they remember to the t kids even though they kids they see things the property voucher shows the detective seized a small amount of cocaine but that wasn't all that was taken [Music] once they detained me they got me outside i was handcuffed on the stretcher i would just talk to the neighbor and i was asking if she could get the money out of my pocket for rent to give to my kids mother and next thing you know one of the detectives came from behind me and he reached in my pocket and took the money out how much money was it in between 8 500 and like 10 000 something like that but detectives only turned in about 1600 which would leave several thousand unaccounted for allison sued the department for excessive force the lawsuit is still ongoing all that pain all that trauma to get basically nothing did the money ever come up again did you did you try to bring it up or try to get it back at that point it didn't even matter my defense lawyer anytime i mentioned anything about that he was just like i need to worry about getting out of jail i don't need to worry about any vet i knew when they took the money from me i wasn't going to get that money back i knew that but i didn't think that they would not report it [Music] in raids like the one executed on alison's home narcotics detectives are given a wide latitude to destroy property and use force all in the name of seizing drugs and money [Music] while the department has proudly displayed the contraband taken in these raids as proof that they're fighting crime what actually happens when they're carried out is largely kept secret a vice news investigation has identified an alarming pattern of largely unchecked abuses within the department's narcotics unit which for years has used residential search warrants to target louisville's west end where the vast majority of the city's black community lives over the past 18 months we've reviewed thousands of search warrants obtained hundreds of previously unreleased documents and hours of footage and spoken to dozens of people on both sides of these raids including targets narcotics officers and their confidential informants lmpd has maintained that its long-held practice of investigating its own officers works and insisted that complaints of corruption are fabricated but our findings suggest narcotics officers have been allowed to operate with almost no oversight rating people's homes with little or no information and under reporting what they see is in the process hop out here real quick bro can you give her my money in my pocket though uh man i just cast my chicken before we did that i would say yes there are policies that you cannot transfer money from one person police departments like louisville's seize money and drugs legally all the time it's called asset forfeiture and many law enforcement agencies rely on it to fund their own departments the practice took hold in the 1980s as part of a sweeping legislative action in the so-called war on drugs the comprehensive crime control act is the only real chance at doing something constructive about criminal law reform one reform would widen the powers of federal prosecutors to go after mobsters and drug traffickers by seizing their profits it could be a knockout blow against the drug syndicates that are poisoning our country why should any right-minded person oppose this for the first time local police departments were allowed to take a cut of any assets seized under federal law states swooped in and followed with their own asset forfeiture laws over the past decade lmpd has seized at least 31 million dollars the county has kept about 8 million dollars of that split between the police department and the prosecutor's office criminologist peter kraska has been monitoring departments increasing reliance on asset forfeiture and the aggressive policing that comes with it the police are now incentivized to go and proactively extract cash from those communities and that just builds in an element of abuse and potential corruption viper it stands for violent incident prevention enforcement and response for three years now the lmpd special unit has racked up arrests crackdown on guns and drugs specialized units have become the front lines of police crime control efforts members typically don't wear uniforms and drive unmarked cars police chiefs and administrators have been told for 35 years go out and do proactive policing and so these teams begin to be looked at as the elite crime fighting units having that status gives them a lot more latitude in the department to do what they need to do to effectively fight crime and that's a really seductive message in policing the idea is to be fast flexible and be in a position that we can do what we need to do to make louisville safer these specialized units have been lauded all across the country but they've also been the source of frequent scandals if you look at the history of elite drug control units they more often than not devolve into some form of mild or serious corruption are these specific to certain police departments or regions or is this something that you see anywhere that these these units are employed this is absolutely widespread back back back back back back stop at lmpd specialized drug units have been responsible for executing most search warrants on homes how hard is it in practice to get a search warrant theoretically and technically it should be a tough process pragmatically and practically in the field it's devolved into just a bureaucratic routine a review of thousands of lmpd search warrants carried out between 2017 and 2020 uncovered a widespread use of boilerplate affidavits which regularly cite little more than a tip from a confidential informant it's common practice to allow for knocking announce search warrants on very thin evidence and that technically should be a violation of the fourth amendment it's rarely looked at in that sort of way can you please state your name for the record detective richard wedo brian bailey court depositions and internal investigations obtained by vice news give a glimpse into the latitude these units were given okay what position are you narcotics detective cid criminal interdiction unit yeah well that no that's that's narcotics that was the new name of narcotics does anyone in your unit wear body camera not working in narcotics for years narcotics officers rarely used body cameras even though they were technically supposed to i've been a part of a thousand search warrants in my life i don't think we've ever taken a video it's my understanding that our internal narcotics narcotics policy says we don't have to worry about it are you aware of anything in the narcotics policy that exempts you from having to use a body camera if it's assigned to you i don't have that policy in front of me but i would say there are examples yes there are there would have to be you don't know what it is you just think there has to be one there has to be one there's sort of this double bind of secrecy within elite crime control units we have to be secret we're potentially busting high level drug dealers but unfortunately what that devolves into are those units thinking that they're infallible that nobody needs to know what they're up to and that's a really dangerous place for a police department to get into particularly when you're talking about a wide amount of discretion for taking somebody's cash there's no real oversight when officers seize money on scene louisville's policy is that officers don't count the money at all it's put in a bag and handed into the property room where it sometimes isn't counted until days later it makes no sense from a point of view of police accountability why did that come about who didn't want that money to be counted on scene and have several people video document what was happening sources inside the police department told us this policy came about after several instances where the money that made it back to the property room didn't match what was counted on scene you feel infallible then if you run into let's say ten thousand dollars cash it's a really slippery slope to get to a point where you say so what if we turn in eight it's a drug dealer's word against ours over the course of our reporting we spoke to roughly two dozen people who told us that police seized more money than they turned into the property room they took my money and said that i can't get it back it was just a bunch of money saved up in a kill anywhere from about 1500. they said that they took only 566 dollars no they did me well i didn't get to see what they i know was over 500 here it says on the inventory forum that they took us currency but then it's crossed out and it says currency was returned to owner yeah that's a lie were you aware that they didn't list taking any money from you first time i've heard that i wasn't aware of that does that surprise you [Music] in some of these instances officers reported less money than was allegedly seized but in most no money was reported at all which is surprising given the broad discretion officers have to take any cash they think might be connected to drugs when we reviewed all unsealed narcotic search warrants over a four-year period we found that at lmpd officers reported finding no money two-thirds of the time multiple former narcotics officers some of whom worked at lmpd told us they didn't understand how that could be possible the detective demetrius allison remembers taking his money he's the same one who wrote the warrant richard wedo he like most other lmpd narcotics officers relied heavily on confidential informants cis have a unique perspective on narcotics policing because they interact with both the police and the people they go after one of whito's former informants agreed to sit down with us for an interview i was doing undercover buzz on narcotics handguns wearing wires and stuff pretty much anything that pained me and that they wanted me to do i was doing for them the ci whose identity we agreed to protect for their safety worked with wedo as recently as 2020 and became familiar with other narcotics officers in his unit how would you describe that group of officers at first you know i described them as you know pretty nice honest people but through the transaction and years i found out you know that they weren't crooked people when you say crooked people what do you mean like keeping drugs keeping money and stuff that they seized off from the defendants they would tell me when they go and do these bus that like let's just say four of them going to do it everybody gets money split equally the most that i've ever seen get was five hundred thousand dollars did weido ever tell you that he had kept money yes he said when they hit this house one time that's how i knew about the hundred thousand dollars that they split most of the money amongst themselves so they only reported some of the five hundred thousand dollars i don't know if any of them got reported these guys are taking a lot of money off the streets and they don't have to count it and people are saying it's not getting turned in so where's it going lmpd declined to answer questions or to make detective wedo or any other officer available for comment citing pending litigation with search warrant specifically how much are they relying on you usually when they're supposed to get search work they've got to do buzz at least a few bars out of resident like say i i bought marijuana out of your house we're going to do a couple baths so that they can see that it's actually coming from you and then they'll go get a judge to sign off on the warrant but that's not how it always happens the ci said they were aware of multiple times when officers searched people's homes before they'd gotten a judge's permission to do so but even a legal warrant doesn't require much to get a judge's signature in a 2015 study based on dozens of ride-alongs with lmpd narcotics detectives officers acknowledged that it didn't take much to get into someone's home especially given how as one detective put it no one cares about these people our review of lmpd search warrants identified several times in which judges had signed off on suspicious warrants submitted by wedo and his colleagues one of the clearest patterns is using almost identical affidavits to hit the same home twice over the course of as little as a month in some cases the language was so similar it even included the same typos many of those affidavits were written by brian bailey who for years served more warrants than any other lmpd detective one of bayley's former informants told us officers would pick out a target and then use informants to justify a raid even when they didn't actually have any intel the same ci told us they knew of multiple people bailly had taken large amounts of money from i wasn't even there when the rake went down i'd been a at a friend of mines so i'm at his house and we're talking all of a sudden my phone starts going off he says this is officer brian bailey with lmpd we just want to let you know we raided your place at uh 29 street when i get back to the house of course i knew something you know was wrong my back gate was busted open and oh i was just destroyed stuff i was looking for of course was gone joe wimsat was dealing drugs at the time and kept his stash and money at his house how much money did they take quite a bit it was anywhere between 15 to 20 000 that day that it was gone this is the property voucher so this is what was turned into the evidence room and it doesn't say fifteen to twenty thousand dollars it just has a thousand three hundred and forty dollars at one thousand three hundred well that doesn't surprise me it's no secret that these guys are pretty good about sticking money in their pocket i can tell you the the methamphetamine is probably close now the cocaine part here there should have been five ounces of cocaine they've got 67.1 i know for a fact that's not right that's not that's that's not right at all it's 20 28 grams in an ounce is that right yeah so if you had five that five ounces five times twenty eight we're talking that's about 40 grams i think that's less than half of what you said that you had pretty mad pretty big difference compared to what i had and what's on here but the thought of filing a complaint for the missing cocaine was laughable i'm not gonna put more on me than you know what they've charged me with oh well yeah by the way y'all's missing this much we might have went from doing the five years that i got to you know a whole lot more the plea agreement that i agreed to was actually um in my opinion was a gift local defense attorneys who people call after their homes are targeted are pretty familiar with these types of plea agreements and the things that never make it into the public record because of them [Music] brendon macleod is one of the many lawyers who described the prevalence of missing money as an open secret in the louisville justice system these are clients that i know and i can vouch for them the people that i'm saying that 80 000 was gone i know it was and that's happened more than once how many times would you say there's been a discrepancy in a case that you've you've worked on more than my hands and toes it happens more often than it ever should so you're representing someone they tell you that there's a discrepancy small enormous 80 000 what do you do they don't like that the money's gone but if in their mind it reflects a more favorable disposition than they don't care they can sweeten it down the line get it dismissed or get it something where it's not gonna be on my record and you know everyone's walks away and the money just the money is uh it was usually chalked up as a cost of doing business but that money just to be clear that's not money that's going to the police department to the district attorney's office it's not reported in the judicial system and it's not reported in the louisville metro's police ledgers as well so that money is gone have you worked any cases that have involved discrepancies than the amount of drugs reported i've had drugs not reported at all and the thing is about money most people know how much money they have when they have dope they know exactly how much it is i mean where is that going well it's probably it goes the way of the money and usually my clients are ecstatic when that's gone multiple people have told us that officers seized drugs for their own purposes including wedo's former confidential informant he also said he'd been asked to plant drugs there were a few times and then one time they wanted me to plant drugs who helped them with a case they were going to pay me to do it how much were they going to pay you they said 10 grand i don't know where the money was going to come at at first i was going to do it but then i thought about it and i backed out at the end of it others have alleged that officers planted drugs on them including one woman who testified to it in a civil case against brian bailey another woman told lmpd investigators that bailey had given her heroin to use when police interactions happen in the dark officers have near total control over the narrative much power do these detectives have in dictating the terms of a plea deal or the outcome of some of these cases they're very influential i mean they can change the plea everyone used to say um it's good to know the prosecutor it's vested on the judge in all reality the most powerful person out there is the officer he can ignore a crime he can charge you with something there's nothing more powerful than the discretion of a police officer out there that's no doubt and it's a real danger when a cop knows that power when they when they understand that right this is hankerson658 what is your name in may of 2014 mike jackson was at a gas station in louisville and he was stopped by detective brett hankerson all of a sudden this guy jumps out of trucks he showed me that he was police officer he said i'm not arresting you or nothing like that i'm just detaining you i said detaining me for what yeah he said i'm just detaining you i said for what you're just being detained right now for investigation okay hankerson suspected jackson had just sold drugs to a woman in the back of a cab jackson insisted there was no drug deal he said i'm just detaining you your mind if i search your vic i said yeah go ahead you know it didn't matter what searched my vehicle for what and he never ever said what he was detaining me for in the car they found a tiny bit of weed and a lot of money i'm thinking myself this is fishing and he just sit there and stare at the money for a minute and looked at me and he's kept looking and i could tell he was formulating that idea uh how he's gonna get some of it all this how much money do you think we got here what do you care about money around your rental car in the trunk floor and i was planning on monday you know to take it to the bank this that's my life saving you talking about probably 89 months to save i told him i said i'm a barber i said this is money i've been saving for a while i'm not using smoking nothing i don't survive on celebrities i'm accusing you of possessing i'm going to sell drugs oh jesus christ my lord and savior i was black with some money you know and i fed the profile i qualified i guess as being a drug dealer hankerson seized all of the cash and ended up charging jackson for trafficking marijuana jackson was already confused by the charge and then he learned hankerson had only reported seizing about fourteen thousand dollars i went down to internal first and i told them this man put all these fake charges on me i didn't do anything he stole money from me it's your statement that you had approximately 24 hours 24 000 and i will tell you that the amount entered was fourteen thousand and ten dollars that's not correct they took some money out of their money it quickly became clear that it was virtually impossible to prove how much money jackson actually had so it was his word against the word of a bunch of officers who wasted no time attacking jackson's credibility i guess the only thing is obviously this guy's credibility which you know i think everybody this table knows is in question i mean is this all a matter of uh you know of him trying to get out of the situation rather than you know face the charges but there were several reasons to question hankerson's account including a moment captured in one of the recordings documenting the arrest that hankerson provided to investigators hankerson had just been reprimanded by a sergeant he was assigned to specific detail that day and wasn't supposed to be making arrests at all while complaining to his partner about the interaction he can be heard talking about seizing twenty five thousand dollars far more than hankerson handed into the property room and in line with what jackson says he had i said sarge i'm trying to do my job and you're making it really difficult right now okay you guys busy would want us to do the recordings also suggest that hankson was fishing for reasons to charge jackson with trafficking marijuana despite evidence to the contrary detectives accused him of selling weed to a woman but didn't find any on her and they only recovered a tiny amount from his car which even hankerson can be heard acknowledging it was a problem i agree what you're saying i'm where he was the only witness the cab driver also independently corroborated jackson's entire story if he's over at the door what kind of transaction took place between them two man dang dude i swear to god i'd take a lot of text just talking about yeah they were just talking he was trying to help the girl he said go god i helped you out i understand she was telling me she got evicted ain't got nowhere to go but hankerson still sent two officers to jackson's place where they claim to have found more weed on the inventory form that's filled out it says 10 grams of weed what in total which i think i've never seen that no jackson says he never gave them permission to search his home and no record of anyone giving consent exists even if police did find 10 grams of weed during a legal search that amount still isn't nearly enough to suggest he was trafficking in the weeks after his arrest jackson says other officers started harassing him stopping and searching his car for no reason when hank is supporting me over thornton's all this stuff started happening right after i mean i've never been pulled over like that in my life there was always unmarked cars a viper unit they was watching me trying to solidify the case for me as being a drug dealer you know to so if they catch me doing something they can keep all the money and hankerson's influence seems to have continued behind the scenes in the courtroom when the prosecutor was given the option to try jackson's case as a misdemeanor or pursue a felony instead he appeared to go call hankerson um you want to take a few minutes and talk to your officer and let me do that and then went with the more serious charge even though it meant dropping the case and starting all over again in a higher court i'm showing the county is moving to dismiss the county is planning on taking a direct on these i'm a client absolutely come on up this is michael jackson mr jackson is quite upset he believes that these charges are not fundamentally sound in any regard that the police had no reason to encounter him the commonwealth attorney's office told us that it isn't uncommon to take a direct indictment in circuit court as they did in jackson's case they denied any knowledge of police officers having undue influence in courtroom decisions but a source with direct knowledge told us that hankerson was known for meddling with criminal cases and had a reputation for retaliating against people he'd arrested i'm pretty adamant about not dismissing my cases or amending them down to misdemeanors when they're decent the following year as part of a separate internal investigation into hankerson he told investigators he tried to personally get a woman's probation revoked i'm the one who called for county commonwealth attorney's office myself i took it up on myself to call them talk to the prosecutor i sent him a copy of the citation i sent him a copy of the lab results i've tried to get a revoked jackson's second case went on for months but was eventually dropped as well for lack of evidence after your case is dismissed what happens do you get your stuff back except ten thousand one hundred eighty dollars they returned to me fourteen thousand ten um but it was just ten thousand one and eighty dollars short piu closed jackson's case about the missing money because it found there was not enough evidence to prove a crime the department never opened a follow-up investigation into any potential policy violations by officers when there is a discrepancy like this what recourse does someone have to get that money back or to even just make it known that the money disappeared i don't think there is a recourse of course i'm gonna get a no you know you're a dope dealer that money wasn't there go yourself get on the ground now what it is it's a burglary first when the officers take the money from people they're armed and they go in their house i mean i thought about that a long time ago that it's actually a home invasion and it's louisville's biggest game there's there's no gang a little bigger than a little metro police department most of these cases never got much attention but even when the public is watching lmpd has still failed to fully investigate suspicious behavior by its officers the most high profile of all of these narcotics raids was the one that ended in briana taylor's death the public narrative was that no drugs or money were found at her apartment but that's not what detective weido's informant says he was told the following day when did you become aware of of that raid the day after is when i became aware of it like i didn't watch the news or anything i was getting paid for a bar you know i'm sitting in their car i'm in the back seat we know what's in the passenger seat and then i'm asking what we're going to be doing next to get you know so i can make more money and they said things are going to be on them like slow down for a while now after what happened with the brianna taylor stuff guido wasn't at taylor's apartment on the night of the rave but several members of his small narcotics unit were including brett hankerson who fired 10 shots that night who is talking during this who's telling you it's time we know it's the one that's talking the hotel he goes in to tell me that they couldn't really search the house too much but they did search the bedroom and under the mattress they found 15 000 in cash did you ask them what happened to the fifteen thousand dollars nope we didn't because i didn't know if they turned it in or not [Music] a source close to taylor confirmed that it was common for her to hold large amounts of cash at the apartment and this isn't the first time we've heard about the potential presence of money on a phone call made from jail about 12 hours after the raid taylor's ex jamarcus glover is recorded saying that taylor had fourteen thousand dollars of his money all right look look look tell cause she i don't know how i'm gonna make no bro she had eight i this recording was specifically cited by lmpd detectives in an internal report compiled months after the raid even though lmpd acknowledged there might have been money on the scene no effort was ever made to find out what happened to it in the hours after the raid several members of widow's unit either lied or withheld information about their whereabouts luke fawn who is the head of the unit and took over the crime scene after swat cleared the apartment told investigators two very different stories about when he left the scene [Music] how long did you stay on scene after you know swat was done and then about 30 minutes but i had to head back down to the hospital with not only how long were you there on springfield several hours matter of fact i was there until um professional oh actually until piu got there so i would assume three hours they got there and then once they got there i was uh went down to the hospital to see manually cole gibson widow's partner at the time told investigators that he went home after leaving the scene so after you left around four-ish three or four did you go home or go backstation or dollar health the key card data obtained by vice news shows that he actually went to the office hankerson who was seen walking in and out of the crime scene told investigators that he went directly to the hospital after leaving the scene but cell phone records obtained by vice news and analyzed by a telecommunications expert suggest he took an unusual detour after initially heading northeast along the road to the hospital his phone pinged a tower corresponding to location well south of the route the trip took him approximately 30 minutes almost twice as long as it should have another officer noted a similar delay on his way from the hospital to piu after i spoke to detective hankinson i left u of l and went to our public integrity unit was detective hankinson there by that time no do you know approximately how much later it was that he arrived uh he was after me i'm not sure the time frame but i do know it wasn't the time it would take you to get from ul there was a delay arrived at piu sometime before 3 42 a.m when department records show he handed in his weapon investigators never tried to find out where henkeson might have gone other than the hospital the attorney general's office as part of its own investigation did question some officers who hankerson spoke with in the aftermath of the raid but no one seemed to notice one of the oddest interactions contained in hankson's phone records during the period in which he was unaccounted for hankerson exchanged multiple text messages with detective mike kuzma who worked for the nearby shively police department kuzma played a small role in the investigation leading up to the raid but in interviews with investigators claim to have no further knowledge or involvement kuzma's phone records which were also obtained by vice news show that he was in louisville right around the time the two were exchanging messages even though he wasn't working and lives half an hour away we don't know exactly what transpired or even what the two were texting about because no one ever subpoenaed hankinson's texts and kuzma was never asked about his contact with hankus in that night over the course of three investigations two by lmpd and one by the state's attorney general's office no one ever got answers about whether there was money at the apartment if it was stolen and if so by whom given the history of allegations against lmpd for missing money it raises serious questions about whether the now infamous raid was also part of the pattern we've identified in our reporting [Music] for the past year the department of justice has been investigating potential civil rights abuses at lmpd including in how they conduct searches and seizures and what happened the night taylor died have you done any informant work since then no they said i just want you to know it's not going to be like it used to be we have to follow protocols and it's going to be really tough to get these things done detective widow has been on administrative leave since july of 2020 when lmpd opened an investigation into an incident in which he shot a protester in the face with a pepper ball we reached out to officers widow kuzma fawn gibson and king and none of them responded brian bailey resigned from the department amid sexual misconduct allegations his lawyer declined to comment citing ongoing litigation brett hankerson was fired for his involvement in taylor's death [Music] when asked for comment on his whereabouts the night of briana taylor's death as well as the allegations relating to mike jackson's case hankerson pointed out that most or all of what we asked about have been investigated by lmpd and was closed without findings of wrongdoing lmpd's criminal interdiction unit has since announced a shift away from narcotics work to a new focus on violent crime drug raids have decreased dramatically from at least once a week to once every several months we're not doing drugs for the sake of drugs we're not doing warrants for the sake of warrants on lmpd's new podcast which they claim was launched to bring more transparency to the department they recently made light of the idea of targeting people over small amounts of drugs so these are your guys for example they're out finding the dime bags of weed right and they're having those good weed arrests right and just taking care of the community one dime bag at a time is that what you guys are doing that's what you're telling me couldn't be further than that no but for those who have experienced what happens when the cameras are off it's going to take a lot more to rebuild trust and so far there have been no consequences or even acknowledgement of the damage the department's narcotics unit has already done internal affairs supposed to be the police over the votes to ensure that i get justice and with no justice every time i see the police even to this day i'm scared you were sober for almost 10 years leading up to over 10 years over 10 years see my smile when i relapsed it was because of that i didn't do anything wrong and no one believed me no one believed i'm in rehab again and uh i have a room there and i'm in recovery i'm in that program there and uh everything's good now [Music] what are you thinking about god is good man you know i mean i lived through it i left through it [Music] [Music] i'm michael larmont editor-in-chief of vice news too often traditional news outlets shy away from the real stories and experiences of those living through global conflicts not vice news our reporters are on the ground fearlessly covering the human stories that shape our world you and millions of others can continue to read watch and listen device news for free but we hope you'll consider making a one-time or ongoing contribution of any size advice.com contribute every contribution no matter how big or small helps support the journalism vice news brings to you every day thank you

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Published: Fri May 20 2022