The Vermont State Police and the Maine State Police both detained investigative journalist James O’Keefe while he was investigating a whistleblower report at the northern border, O’Keefe said during a recent live show with Tucker Carlson.
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“So I go up there this weekend to get comment, like I do, and the state police detain me for trying to ask questions of the border patrol agents,” said O’Keefe during an interview with Tucker Carlson.
O’Keefe and his team headed to Northern Vermont to ask questions of Border Patrol agents after one agent, Zachary Apotheker, blew the whistle on the agency.
Apotheker claimed that the Border Patrol in his sector is being used to bring people into the country, and suggested that they are facilitating human trafficking of girls under 14.
Agents do not collect biometric data from girls under 14 and reportedly do nothing to verify where they are being sent or whether they are being connected with family members.
“We don’t have any data on them and we’re not checking the addresses that we’re sending these children with these people to. And we’re not connecting these families. We have no actual proof other than the documents,” said Apotheker.
The girls are then left extremely vulnerable to abuse from anyone claiming to be their relatives, or simply approaching them after they are released into the country.
Border Patrol served Apotheker with a cease-and-desist order after he spoke out, forbidding him from speaking to journalists.
O’Keefe and his team headed up to Vermont for answers.
They approached multiple agents with questions and were ignored or threatened with calls to the police or, in one case, dogs.
The team then sought an interview with Agent Robert Noe Garcia, chief of the Swanton, Vermont, Border Patrol sector.
The O’Keefe Media team found that other law enforcement officers had been posted outside Garcia’s house specifically to prevent them from asking questions.
The officer, State Trooper Daniel Bohnyak, accused O’Keefe of obstructing a public highway after he continued to ask questions and detained him.
“Right now I am telling you you are not free to leave, you’re being detained” said Bohnyak.
Video shows that O’Keefe was parked on the side of the road, leaving ample space for traffic to pass by.
Bohnyak called in backup and served O’Keefe with paperwork accusing him of trespassing and prohibiting him from being on Garcia’s property.
O’Keefe asked questions from a public street and did not set foot on Garcia’s property.
“We are in dangerous times when they call the state police on journalists to ask questions of the press,” said O’Keefe.
O’Keefe later announced with Tucker Carlson that following Apotheker’s testimony and the cease and desist order given to Apotheker by his superiors, five more Border Patrol agents are planning to come forward with whistleblower testimonies.
“I got wind over the last 24 hours that five more Border Patrol agents are gonna blow the whistle,” said O’Keefe.
The agency’s attempts to silence Apotheker and O’Keefe are instead inspiring more whistleblowers to come forward and reveal the truth to the American public.
O’Keefe’s investigation into the border comes as part of his upcoming documentary, “A Line in the Sand,” set to reveal the dire situation under the Biden-Harris Administration.
Though O’Keefe did not elaborate with Carlson, he did mention that he was also temporarily detained and questioned by the Maine State Police.
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Jimmy in Maine, i’m gonna love this. Go JO
Thus far the transformation from Democracy to a Totalitarian government has been relatively bloodless.
Somebody should show this to anus king and pinhead pingree so they can do their job… for once. After all it is an election year
The left supports the killing of babies, mutilating children or raping them So sad!
Is this why they want to spend $95 on the Coburn Gore Land Port of Entry? Human trafficking and climate equity go hand in hand.
So now we know why the Maine state cops don’t have time to bust illegal chinese drug dealers! It takes time to harass conservative investigative reporters to keep the truth from the people!
Ton of crap. There’s no girls bein’ moved into USA through there. If the people there was any sign of that they’d gun down the girls and the police as well. Stop trying to make every border state out to be like Texas and arizona.
Ben and Jerry’s ice cream cows have no eyes, now we know why ha ha ha ha ha ha
If they were hiding the human trafficking of teenage girls O’Keefe would’ve been dressed up as sailor moon and baton-fucked until he agreed to mind his own business. Just as many trafficked girls in Vermont as there are pot growing triads in Maine. It’s all bullshit and lies, distractions from the fact that half the white shit that lives up there are narcotics traffickers. Instead of worrying about the four Chinese people in maine, and the five mail order brides in Vermont let’s have us some door-to-door action in these states with narcotics scanners and K-9, and when you see how many many many of them there are you’ll start to understand why there’s so many white drug addicts
Some folks on YouTube have been making a killing on videos of this nature. I do hope you will sue under 1st and 4th amendments.
I have said repeatedly that ; ” The State Police are just Mills Praetorian Guard , they ZERO interest in solving any CRIME just another arm of Tyranny….
How bought is that Trooper? lock, stock, and barrel it seems to me.
Just ask these NON Border Patrol POS how they will feel when THEIR wife, daughters and sons are raped or killed by some illegal aliens! Are they still going to feel proud that they still have a job that pays six figures without much overtime? Or how about when their kids get addicted to drugs that they helped get across the border?
“SHUT UP!” they explained.
Leftist Taliban
ALL Federal Government employee’s are FASCIST BOOTLICKERS?
OATH BREAKERS one and All? YOU WIOLL BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE SOONER OR LATER? You BEST reread your OATH and Figure Out WHO you REALLY work for?
WE THE PEOPLE will not let you get away with this Fascist BS!!!!!
STATE BOOTLICKERS OR FEDERAL BOOTLICKER ALL OATH BREAKERS AND TRAITORS TO WE THE PEOPLE!!!!! If they carry out AN ILLEGAL ORDER they are GUILTY!!!! The Nazi’s didn’t get away with that “I WAS JUST FOLLOWING ORDERS BS”
You WILL be held accountable?