Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

June 4, 2009

Following a May 13 high-speed chase on the California Interstate, El Monte Police Officer George Fierro was videotaped kicking a prone and unresisting suspect in the head.

The suspect, 23-year-old Richard Rodriguez, was described as a member of a local Chicano street gang connected to the Mexican Mafia.

Ironically, he may have been a customer of the policeman who arrested him.

Officer Fierro owns Torcido Clothing, a specialty shop specializing in "some of the hardest authentic jail house threads for the street." Its preferred clientele is drawn from Latino street gangs. Among its offerings is a t-shirt bearing the inscription 186.22, a reference to the section of the California criminal code dealing with gang-related violence.

At least some of the clothing Fierro sells to gang members contains special pockets to conceal guns, drugs, and other contraband.

Perhaps next we?ll learn of a fireman who markets t-shirts romanticizing arson.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.