By her own admission to my sister on the phone..."this is a dangerous situation", Laurie has thrown down the gauntlet for everyone involved, except herself.
By now everyone knows that I don't use drugs...I don't involve myself with people that do and even as an informant I don't really care about people that sell drugs or use them. By the same token, I am all about police officers coming home safe to their wives and kids every single day of the year. I want the same thing for my friends that aren't cops too. I also want to point out that every drug dealer and drug addict, gay or straight also have families and loved ones that need to know that they aren't going to be killed for their choices.
I became an informant in this case along with Christopher to stop electronic harassment for a lot of reasons, but the most important is because we wanted to be left alone to love each other. In pursuing the end of what was happening to us, we came across so much more than we bargained for. We were both put in places, by the police, that risked our lives...and for that we received nothing. The police treated us like we weren't human...and that we were expendable, I think I've proven that we are formidable. We are better educated than many police officers and we know what the truth is....we just want to be treated fairly for trying to find a peaceful solution to a crime that is inevitably going to come to light with this police department.
We weren't the dealers playing the police against the addicts...we were the victims of rape and arrest that were trying to stop people from being put in a position of danger by a woman and her brother that treat our lives like a video game: cop, addict, dealer and informant. The entire time we did everything we were asked to do.
I want everyone to know that I am trying to keep this woman and her brother from entertaining themselves any further with police chief firings, Warm Sands stings and the targeting of innocent gay men and women by our department. We don't like it any more than the police do...I support their frustration with this woman but I do not support their clandestine relationship with her. There were better more legal ways of getting the job done, I think I've shown all of you this.
I just want to go on record as saying that the way the police believed and behaved for Laurie that any gay man could look like a "big time dealer" and that the cops have behaved in a manner so supportive of violence that this is a dangerous situation for both police and drug addicts/dealers. Nobody needs to be put in that position. Good old fashioned police work with informants that are credible and are there in person could have yielded better results than spying on us online and in our homes.
I want everyone to understand that not every gay man is a "crime boss" and not every police officer is a bigot...the solution to this situation lies in the arrest and exposure of Laurie and Brian LaFelony...not in the continued berating of the PSPD and the gay community; I think we've all been put through enough.
