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Part One: Harlon Carter: the Man Who Militarized the Cops and the NRA

Behind the Bastards

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The Only Time in American History That the Lorado Police Force Has Been Fired With Guns

Loredo was a pretty wild place when harland carter was an adolescent. His father, horace, was among the first cohort of border patrol agents hired in 19 27. The clean up transformed the lorado border patrol into a refuge for white violence within mexican dominated loredo. It's entirely possible that horace carter was one the guys shooting that police stationu and he would have seen his job as explicitly to use violence to assert white supremacy. And again, i mean, there's a long conversation to be had about the fact that the border patrol to day is extremely diverse. There's nothing wrong with the n r a but it has its roots on

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