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🗓️ 6 December 2021
⏱️ 156 minutes
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0:00.0 | Joshua O'Brien regained consciousness on July 12, 2020 inside the Cool Cats tattoo |
0:04.9 | parlor and Englewood Colorado after being choked and beaten. His wrists and ankles were hogtied. |
0:09.8 | He was bleeding. While members of Denver's Hell's Angels motorcycle club still around him, |
0:14.6 | ready to lay more hurt upon his bruised and battered body if he should try and riggle out of his |
0:18.8 | restraints, shop owner and H.A. member Dusty Ulrich started blacking out O'Brien's deathhead tattoo. |
0:25.0 | The hard-earned emblem signifying his membership in the Hell's Angels motorcycle club. On top of |
0:30.5 | where the deathhead once lived, Ulrich used a real heavy hand to scroll the word bad |
0:35.6 | and to O'Brien's skin as other Hell's Angels photographed a ritual on their phones. |
0:40.0 | If you ever tell anyone about this, said Ulrich, I will fucking slit your throat. |
0:44.0 | Despite the threat, O'Brien talked, and his throat has yet to be slit. |
0:48.9 | He went to law enforcement five months after this incident, feeling betrayed by his former brothers. |
0:53.6 | They beaten him and kicked him out after suspecting he was talking to law enforcement, |
0:57.3 | following a raid on his Lakewood motorcycle shop. But he hadn't talked. At least that's what he says. |
1:02.6 | And because of what they did to him, he did end up talking. And based on his testimony, |
1:07.2 | 14 Hell's Angels members ranging from 30 to 81 years old were charged with violating |
1:11.8 | Colorado's organized crime act, along with a litany of assault, burglary and kidnapping charges. |
1:17.5 | O'Brien gave investigators intricate details on the Hell's Angels Denver chapters involvement |
1:21.8 | with stashed houses of meth, prostitutes, arms deals, and money laundering across the country. |
1:26.8 | Is this the Hell's Angels? Do they live up to the hype as a true organized criminal organization? |
1:32.3 | It appears that some chapters certainly do, but maybe not all. |
1:36.0 | O'Brien said according to an arrest affidavit, if you want loves and hugs, |
1:40.4 | you go to the Rocky Mountain chapter. If you want guns and drugs, you go to the Denver Charter. |
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