A White Undercover Cop Explains Taking Down The MOST Dangerous Crip Set | The Connect

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Johnny Mitchell

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🗓️ 6 January 2024

⏱️ 132 minutes

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Tegan Broadwater joins the show to explain exactly how he, a touring musician, became a cop in Fort Worth, Texas and ended up going undercover and infiltrating one of the most notorious Crip gang sets in all of Texas. He gives details of how he climbed the ranks, was almost found several times, had close encounters with death, and eventually took the set down in a 51 man roundup. Go Support Tegan! Life In The Fish Bowl Book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0578661624 YouTube: @UncommonSouls IG: https://www.instagram.com/teganbroadwater/?hl=en Website: https://teganbroadwater.com/ This Episode Is Brought To You By The Following Sponsors: Support the show and visit MOOD Go to https://hellomood.co/ and CONNECT20 for 20% off your order and code CONNECTFREE for a FREE 5ct pack of gummies! Join The Patreon For Bonus Content! https://www.patreon.com/theconnectshow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I was going to meet him and talk about making this first quarter. And this jacked up dude that I don't know, Ope swings the door open and points a shotgun at us through the burglar bar door and starts screaming at us. What are you motherfuckers doing here? And blah, blah, blah, blah, you know, belonging. So I'm trying to talk everybody down against one of those deals where how am I going to explain this or we're going to
0:21.1	shoot somebody and I'm here and nobody knows I'm here. That scared me to death. What's up,
0:26.7	guys? On today's episode, we interviewed an undercover cop. Tegan Broadwater is a former Dallas
0:31.6	narcotics cop who went deep undercover and infiltrated the most infamous Crip gang set in Dallas-Fort Worth.
0:39.7	He embedded with Crip gang members for 18 months before his police work finally led to a 51-man
0:46.3	RICO indictment.
0:47.9	He's here to tell us how a white guy was able to assimilate and move up within the ranks of the Crips,
0:55.9	finally taking down the kingpin and causing this massive bust.
1:00.7	You can go buy Teigen's book.
1:02.1	He wrote a book about it called Life in the Fish Bowl.
1:04.8	Go to Amazon right now.
1:06.1	You can also follow his YouTube page.
1:08.4	And of course, if you want bonus content with Teigen,
1:10.5	go over to patreon.com slash the Connect show.
1:14.0	You're going to love this episode.
1:15.8	Without further ado, Tegan Broadwater right here on the Connect with Johnny Mitchell.
1:20.0	So we get in there and the first thing happens, unlock the burglar bar, open the door, step in.
1:26.4	It's a typical trap.
1:28.5	You know, you've got a couch, a table with some weights and a gun, and then a big screen TV.
1:33.5	No sooner did we start having a conversation about what he had.
1:37.1	I hear something eerily familiar.
1:39.8	And it just so happens to be my own voice on an episode of cops from 1999. That's when I see lights behind me start to flash. And I didn't even think. I just hit it. I was driving like my life depended on. Then I parked the car, popped out, closed the door, and I started running. And he pulls out a burner, shang. it's like six inches, and he passes it to me.
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