RADLEY BALKO
POLICING THE POLICE
what Obama was doing with indefinite detention. But he was never
volatile about it. I think he just
internalized it. It made him sad.”
In one postcard he sent to his
sister from jail, Stewart cautioned her against vaccinating
her son, because, he explained, he
didn’t trust pharmaceutical companies. In another, he told her
that despite his depression, he
refused to take anti-depressants.
He didn’t trust them or the companies that made them.
Michael Stewart, a private in-
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“It wasn’t even the raid itself
that turned me off to cops.
It was the way they treated
my family after it happened.”
vestigator, says his son lost his
security job for accessing IRS
computers without authorization.
“He worked the night shifts. He
got bored. So he started surfing
the web on the computers inside.
He probably accessed some conspiracy websites,” Stewart says.
“That’s what got him fired.”
“He would sometimes go on
Matthew’s
sister-in-law,
Erna Stewart,
has been
a leading
advocate for
police reform.