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The story about the Butcher of Bakersfield was so infamous that they made a bad movie about it, then someone went back in time and wrote a way better short novel with the same character in a totally different scenario in the 1970s! Bizarre, eh?I don't know about Bakersfield. They have a pretty wild history of corruption in their law enforcement.
In 2017 there was a food riot and a police captain was ordered to open fire on the crowd. He refused and was taken into custody while his inferiors carried out the killing. I think it was something like 60 civilians killed. Either way, the local government conspired with the media to edit the footage which was later used as evidence to convict the captain. He ended up escaping prison at some point and joined some underground, anti-corporate resistance movement. He kidnapped some lady news reporter and all kinds of crazy shit went down.
Google "the butcher of Bakersfield."
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