alt Hacker News> Bricks & Minifigs CEO Ammon McNeff is a graduate of Brigham Young University. Joshua Johnson and Brandon Best are, by public record and documented account, members of the LDS community. When Reckless Ben's team, following the pattern of obstruction by local law enforcement, looked into the individual officers involved in these incidents, they found that multiple officers were also BYU alumni.
I thought “it has to be some kind of corruption here”. And yup it’s the mormon mafia apparently
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My understanding is that 50% of people in the state of Utah are mormon. I'm not saying there wasn't corruption, but it could very well be pure chance with those odds.
Do you know all these involved parties aren't mormons in some mormon area/mormon company? Eg the old guy, the franchisee?
> multiple officers were also BYU alumni
Brigham Young University is 10 miles from American Fork UT, and provides 1/4th of the bachelors degrees for the entire state.
It's like saying police officers in Italy are Catholic. Everyone is -- law enforcement and criminals alike.
(Disclaimer: I live near there and also graduated from BYU.)
Ki Mcallister was also BYU
Would you say the same if they all happened to be atheist?
Honestly that pattern of actions by law enforcement was the most disturbing thing. There was a moment where they knew this person was present at a private property to serve a warrant in a legitimate lawsuit. Clearly the right and moral action for the police at that moment was to help serve the papers AND then escort the litigant from the property. They chose to behave more like mobsters than defenders of the public trust, like they were taking over responsibility from the courts