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Chicano Squad

Temptations - The Fall of Bobby Gatewood Part 1

Chicano Squad

Vox Media

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, True Crime

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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The Chicano Squad has handled cartels, kidnappings, and cop killers. But can they handle corruption from within? Take our listener survey here; thanks! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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One evening in the late 1970s, several months before they were recruited to join the inaugural Chicano Squad,

0:08.0

Cecil Mosqueda and his partner Bobby Gatewood were on patrol.

0:12.0

Cecil had already been a police officer for at least four years, while Bobby was fresh off probation.

0:18.0

Bobby was a good officer, very positive by himself, sure of himself, strong.

0:25.0

He was the kind of guy that you wanted as an officer.

0:29.0

They hear a call come over the radio for a burglarier alarm at a church.

0:33.0

The two are looking for something to do, so they sign themselves onto the call and speed to the scene.

0:39.0

It's probably a false alarm, but as police officers, they have to treat it seriously.

0:45.0

Cecil checks the perimeter of the church, looking at each window and door, and around every corner,

0:51.0

and doesn't see anything suspicious.

0:54.0

Bobby inspects the inside of the building, and everything seems fine.

1:01.0

Cecil is ready to clear the scene and get back on patrol, so he heads into the church to find his partner.

1:07.0

Inside, Bobby is talking to a nun.

1:11.0

He says, I don't believe in no God, you are who you are.

1:16.0

You make your own bed. You are who you are, there's no God. He's telling this to the nun.

1:22.0

Cecil, a devout Catholic, was horrified, as was the nun.

1:27.0

And I turn around and see how you fool.

1:31.0

I told him, Bobby, where are you telling her that? What is wrong with you?

1:36.0

And he's just, I'm telling the way I feel, Cecil, you're over, you are.

1:40.0

You make whatever you want because you're your own person.

1:44.0

I said, but you don't see that, Bobby. Not to her.

1:49.0

In the process of making this series, getting any of the Chicano squad members to talk about Bobby Gatewood,

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