MEMBERS ONLY: 'I didn't know you were cops!'

Earlier this year Federal law enforcement sought to execute a search warrant an a mother and her two adult sons for living unlawfully on Federal park land. Because one of the sons had previously made threatening statements, the arrest was made surreptitiously by plain-clothes officers pretending to need a jump-start for their truck. When one of the brothers, named Timber, prepared to help the as yet unidentified officers, they initiated his arrest. That brother then started screaming for help...

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