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‘Corrupt cops will try to kill me this weekend’: Activist’s grim prediction days before he was found stabbed to death

Whistleblower stabbed & burnt after posting chilling warning on Facebook.

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The man who was found stabbed inside a burning home in Fresno last week is confirmed to be John Lang, a frequent poster in the Fresno People’s Media group on Facebook and acquaintance to many in the Fresno activist community.

Abc30 reported:

Police say a man who had been stabbed was found inside a burning Central Fresno home. He was pronounced dead at the hospital and the neighborhood is in shock. The smoke was spotted by neighbors on Van Ness, just north of Belmont around 3:00 in the afternoon on Wednesday and firefighters just happened to be a few doors down on an unrelated call. Battalion Chief Todd Tuggle said, “While the 911 call was going in, neighbors were flagging down our engine company.” The home was heavily secured with a gate so firefighters had to force their way in. After a quick search, they found a man in the kitchen, unconscious and bleeding from several stab wounds. He was taken to the hospital and pronounced dead. Lt. Joe Gomez with the Fresno Police Department said, “Unknown if the stab wounds caused the death or the smoke inhalation, it’s too early to tell.” Investigators call the death suspicious and they believe the house was intentionally set on fire. Tamara Olivarria who lives across the street said, “He just got those lights fixed and the gate is locked so I’m not sure how anyone would have got in even, but it’s kind of scary.” Police haven’t confirmed it but neighbors say the victim is a man in his mid-40’s– a man who lived alone and worked on boats at the home. Theresa Fuentes says he was a friend and she’s not sure why anyone would want to hurt him. “If it’s a random thing, that makes it much scarier…cause the neighborhood is getting better, we thought,” Fuentes said. Olivarria added, “It’s sad, you know, I hope he didn’t experience a lot of pain.” At this point, there are no suspects and police need help solving the case.

But this is only a small part of the story. John seemingly predicted his own murder and says Fresno law enforcement is responsible.

Days before his death, he was adamant that Fresno law enforcement would conclude their 7-year-long campaign against him by ending his life.

On Jan. 13, 2016, he shared a brief conversation between him and another person reiterating the reason why Fresno cops were stalking him.
Mac McCauley · Granite Bay, California What occured in your life to bring you to the attention of the cops, both city and county, that you believe you are being stalked?

Mac McCauley I simply voice my opinion regarding local government and politics on local blogs. I also discovered local law enforcement had been running a license plate scanning scam where Fresno Cops would scan license plates at Retail Store parking lots (Save Mart, Von’s, HomeDepot, etc.) in lower income neighborhoods. After collecting hits of violations they then would pull the unsuspecting drivers over a few blocks away from the store location in a marked police vehicle claiming they simply came across their vehicle through routine driving patrols. This unethical and possibly illegal activity was simply motivated by “profit” and unfairly targeted Fresno’s poorer residents. I also discovered the Fresno Bee was sharing chat log data with Fresno Law Enforcement of Fresno citizens who were critical of local Fresno Government and Fresno Law Enforcement. Fresno Law Enforcement subsequently used the ip addresses in the chat logs provided by the Bee to track down, stalk, and harass those chat bloggers who were critical of local politics and local law enforcement. Since publicly exposing these local law enforcement activities it’s been a constant onslaught of stalking, harassment, and intimidation directed toward myself from Fresno Law Enforcement. They even tried to set me up and plant false evidence in my home. I filed a request for an Internal Affairs Investigation and that seemed to enrage them even more. They are simply trying to destroy me by any means possible. I am in constant fear for my life. As Kevin Arial, a Face Book pseudonym and alias of a known local cop so eloquently posted to my Face Book page recently: “First rule of fight club is you do not talk about fight club, You should know this Mr. Lang! ; D”.
The next day, Jan. 14, John’s Facebook posts became increasingly alarmist (or so we thought).



On the 15th, he reached out to reporter Corin Hoggard and claimed that Fresno cops would try to kill him in the next few days.
Corin, you want some news? Corrupt Fresno Cops are going to try and kill me this weekend, possibly tonight. This is no joke. Please follow up on my story regardless of what happens or what version the cops and the fresnobee come up with. Please check out www.jodymurray.com and my youtube site: https://www.youtube.com/cha…/UCTMl9Ncxd-jhZ81s4z3XA6w/videos
Thank you..

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On the 16th, he posted a video showing people he believed meant him imminent harm.
He also asked people to stay at his house with him, with guns, to protect him from “the bad guys” in the van.



Jan. 17, he wrote this open letter to the DOJ and FBI.
Open Letter the the USDOJ and the FBI I am fairly certain that Fresno Law Enforcement is trying to set me up on some type a charge related to child pornography. I’ve been trying to figure out why they would send Child Molester George Adams Ramirez my way when I was renting the property next to me for Don Green. Also I was at a loss as to how Fresno LE was able to turn so many people against me so quickly. The only thing that makes sense coupled with George Ramirez situation is if Fresno LE told these folks I was a child porn suspect. Imagine a police officer dressed in his official uniform pulling up in a police cruiser. Imagine the same police officer or detective telling a group of coworkers of the accused or other folks that said person is a bad guy who is under investigation for the crimes of child pornography, and cops would like their help in putting a really bad guy away. This would be a no brainier for most reasonable people. There is no more heinous, hideous, and inhuman crime than that of a child porn person. This crime evokes more human emotion than any other. And it is to that effect that Fresno Law Enforcement uses to suit their purpose in my situation. It’s Fresno Law Enforcement’s “weapon of mass destruction”. This would also explain why the FBI shows little interest in my pleas for help. There has long been a believe in Law Enforcement circles that if someone is guilty of something, then helping that process along by fabricating evidence is completely acceptable. This rational can provide a loophole for truth and justice to be ignored when an innocent person is charged or suspected of crimes, as it is with my situation. Let this example serve as a warning to all my activist and blogger friends. We are by no means free. If and when the Government targets us, we are completely and utterly done, and there is really nothing we can do about it. Through my example the Government is trying to drive home the point that they want obidient, submisive, and loyal subjects. And they will settle for nothing less.. I’m also fairly certain I’ve figured out how Fresno Law Enforcement handled the actual access and internet distribution of the offensive material. Let’s just say that the FEDS should re-investigate all Child porn cases in Fresno where ATT Internet Services provided the Internet service. Especially cases where the accused had a conflict with the City Of Fresno or high ranking City of Fresno personnel. Other elements are simply handled by planting various elements of false evidence here and there once they enter a residence. That is why Fresno LE was so determined to get a search warrant for an official home entry in my case. As I’ve mentioned in the past Fresno LE had already illegally and secretly entered by home, copied my hard drives in order to get a good game plan for the eventual false arrest. There also appears to be a pattern here. Anyone who has ever talked publicly about, accused, or discussed Jerry Dyer’s suposed sex scandle with that 16 year old girl has found themselfs in some type of legal peril within a few short years.. And with this letter I have for certain signed my death warrant with Fresno LE. Kind Regards, John Lang Fresno Ca 93728
Jan. 20th, he was dead.



John first reached out to us in May of 2015. Like many, we thought he was paranoid. Shortly after the initial contact, he registered several domain names for a website that served as an online diary of his experiences. He also had a YouTube channel with 17 videos, all from his home surveillance system. The videos, he says, show police intimidation and suspicious characters who are part of a conspiracy to destroy him.

The content below is unedited and uncut from John’s diary.

John says his story starts in 2009.
I was having trouble in my marriage. Then I was ticketed two blocks away from the Home Depot on West Shaw in Fresno, where I had just visited. I later learned that Fresno Law Enforcement had a “pattern of practice” of unethically scanning license plates on private retail parking lots. They then pull the unsuspecting drivers over a block or two away from said parking lots. This was meant to optimize ticket revenue at a very minimal expense. Millions of dollars of revenue has been generated in this questionable manner by Fresno area Law Enforcement agencies. A “pattern of practice” that is still in use today by Fresno area Law Enforcement agencies. The added financial stress related to this incident crippled what was left of my marriage. I was devastated, angry, and upset. I thought the parking lot license plate scanning was abusive and simply designed as a revenue generating scheme for the City of Fresno. So, as an expression of peaceful protest I voiced my opinion on the Fresno Bee, which I now realize was a mistake. I thought I was anonymous, but an employee at the Fresno Bee, “Jody Murray” was “feeding” a known Sheriff Sergeant who used the alias hikerdude67 or hikerdude1967 website log data containing identifiable ip address information that Fresno LE used to track down Fresno Citizens who were posting comments critical of Fresno LE and the City of Fresno. Preliminary identification identifies hikerdude1967 as Jared L McCormick, a Fresno County Sheriff Sergeant. Within weeks I was vehicle “tailed” by undercover Sheriff officers who were routinely waiting on the street near my home. One individual I recognized by his very unique hair and facial features was the same Sheriff personnel who a few years later followed me into a Save Mart grocery store located at Clinton and Blackstone. The details of this later incident are listed in the 12/01/14 “Time Line / Notes section”, which can be found below. Fresno PD was also occasionally following me as well, although their harassment participation was exponentially growing. In 2013 and 2014 I was being followed very frequently by Fresno PD and Fresno Sheriff personnel. The frequency was so high that both agencies had obviously gps’d my car or my phone, they seemed to be “popping up everywhere”. I also believe that Fresno LE (both PD and Sheriff) was also “tapping” my phone and my ex-wife’s phone, either illegally, or by obtaining a warrant under false premise and or claims. I later learned from other commenters on the Bee, that other posters who were known to be critical Fresno LE and the City of Fresno were also targeted by Fresno LE. I learned Fresno LE including Fresno PD and Fresno Sheriff personnel had a pattern of “harassment and intimidation” against citizens who criticized Fresno Law Enforcement, Fresno Government, or Fresno Public employees. There were many posters discussing this problem of Fresno LE retaliation for speaking out about Fresno Police abuses.
He says police harassment peaked in 2013 during the Measure G campaign.
The surveillance and harassment peaked about a year and a half ago or so when Measure G was on the ballot. I was a fairly well known commenter on the Fresno Bee and had over 2500 comments and over 3000 likes (up votes). I was a fierce opponent against Mayor Ashley Swearengin’s Measure G campaign. I was also critical of Fresno Law Enforcement and other City of Fresno departments. I now realize this was not a good idea. I had debated Fire Chief Brown regarding fire budgets a few days before his well publicized incident. I was an overt poster, and unwittingly and naively, I was also becoming a target. Based on my experience of being followed by Fresno LE personnel (PD and Sheriff) I had publicly stated on the Bee that “Fresno PD and the Fresno Sheriff’s department had a “File” and “Data” on anyone who was even remotely critical of Fresno LE. And, for what purpose the “File” had, I had no idea, but I knew it wasn’t anything good. But, after my experience with Fresno PD and the Fresno Sheriff’s personnel I clearly understood what the “File” meant. I had a target on my back and Fresno PD and the Sheriff’s Department we going to stop at nothing to get me, even if it meant breaking the law and violating my civil rights. Months later the Fresno Bee switched their comment system to a FaceBook only set up and 90 percent of the commenters left. After this transition I terminated my posting on the Bee and sent an email to the Bee Editor Jim Borden on 9/13/13 and 9/17/13 explaining that a Bee employee named “Jody Murray” was sharing the ip log data of Bee commenters with Fresno Sheriff personnel and Sheriff personnel were subsequently harassing these folks who were posting comments on the Bee website. I also sent an email to a Sacramento Bee reporter phecht@sacbee.com on 3/24/14 regarding the same allegation, neither of the two replied back to me. After I sent those emails, simple vehicle “tailing” harassment escalated into something more serious. I believe that during the last year and a half or so, and post 9/13/13 and 9/17/13 a small group of Fresno Sheriff personnel and Fresno Police officers, as retaliation and punishment, has initiated a multitude of investigations on me, through a multitude of agencies, in an effort to discredit and destroy me. They also instituted an aggressive campaign of harassment and intimidation that consisted of, by not limited to: covert and overt vehicle “tailing” on numerous occasions, illegally wire tapping of my phone line and my ex-wife’s phone line, and my 10 year old daughters phone line. With the information gained through these illegal wire taps they have contacted my professional business customers insinuating that I am a bad guy who is currently under various investigations and that it might be best if they didn’t do business with me.
He mentions illegal emissions stickers, a reoccurring topic in his story.
Approximately in April or May of 2014 I received a call from a person to look at a Jet Ski that I placed for sale on Craig’s List. Three people showed up for this appointment. One had all the mannerisms and personality of a LE person. He was tall with an average build and short cropped blond hair and based on his mannerism I believe this person was Fresno Sheriff personnel. The other one, surprisingly, was Jody Murray. However at the time I did not realize he was Jody Murray. The third person was a younger male, slightly heavy set, riding a newer modern motorcycle. Following this appointment, which was also after my email to Jim Borden and the Sacramento bee reporter, the harassment significantly spiked. More recently, during the last three months I have been followed much more frequently. Since Fresno PD and Fresno Sheriff personnel seems to always appear as I was out at some location doing my daily routine, I assumed they had GPS’ed my phone or car. This, I believe was how they are tracking and following me. On 12/01/14 I was followed to the Save Mart at Blackstone and Clinton (see date notes for Dec 1, 2014). I was also followed into the store. The person following me was continuously talking on the phone with someone. I believe this person in the store was giving a second party my activities and precise time estimates of my shopping progress. I believe this second party was then using these time estimates to illegally enter my residence and property. And, I believe it’s happened more than once. I had been noticing odd events on certain occasions when I would return home from shopping or picking up my daughter from school. I have more detail on these events in the time line section of this letter. Based on what I’ve described above I believe these individuals have planted something in my residence and are planning to arrest me on some false charge or perhaps worse. I operate a small marine repair shop and recently I have received numerous calls regarding fake emission stickers which allow boaters bypass gross polluter laws on Personal Water Craft vessels. I had never heard of these fake stickers before and I’ve never before had phone calls from new customers discussing illegal activities with me. I had nearly five of these calls in a 3 day period. One of these calls was a referral from a newer customer of mine, Tim Tompsett, who works for the City of Fresno’s Wastewater division. See the notes dated: 3/09/2015 7:18 PM. As mentioned earlier I also believe Fresno LE has also contacted my customers from my part time businesses (property management and webhosting), this information, they would only have access to by accessing my home computer or illegally wiretapping my phone. One such incident was in March of 2015. I had just had a conservation on the phone with Bryan Andre of Aquatic Pets (http://www.aquaticpets.net) in Clovis California, 559-298-4549. For over 10 years he has been a web customer of mine and always has good follow up with invoices and questions. He had asked me to rebuild his website and called to check on the progress of the website. I told him it would be done in a couple of days. He said “great” and asked me to follow up with him in a couple of days. Following up a couple of days later I called him back but suddenly he stopped returning my calls and emails. In one email to which I sent over 15 he said he really liked the new site design and told me to send him an invoice. I have sent multiple invoices and emails to which he never responds. This is extremely uncharacteristic of Bryan, and as stated, I have known him for over 10 years. I believe Fresno Sheriff’s personnel listening in on my phone conversations made contact with Bryan and told him I was a “bad” guy who was under various investigations. Bryan eventually did email me and claimed he canceled his services with me because he thought I charged too much. After 10 years and an agreement on this particular price for a new website he thought I charged too much? Fresno Law Enforcement were using their illegal wiretaps or “StingRay Devices” to determine who my customers were so they could meddle and create conflict with my customers. This is part of the Fresno LE conspiracy with the Fresno Sheriff Department in the lead to financially and legally ruin me for my past comments on the Fresno Bee, and emailing Jim Borden the Fresno Bee Editor details of the scheme between Jody Murray and Fresno Sheriff personnel.
Time Lines / Notes
Prior to Dec 1st 2014 I hadn’t kept a log of harassment activities, but I did post pre 2014 incidents on the Fresno Bee’s old comment system using the handle “John21”. The Bee has since migrated to a facebook only system so I’m not sure where this old comment data would be. But Jody Murray, the Bee Content and Web manager who was providing commenters ip address’s to Fresno Sheriff Personnel would likely have access to this old data. Again, a known Fresno Sheriff who used the handle hikerdude67 or hikerdude1967 on the Fresno Bee was accused publicly in the Bee comment section by other commenters of posting, and having “knowledge” of other commenters personal information. A few days after this public accusation the commenter hickerdude1967 no longer appeared in any of the Bee’s comment sections. The “word” on the Bee was that Fresno County Sheriff administrators had gotten “word” of the activities of hikerdude1967 and requested he terminate his activities on the Fresno Bee.

12/01/14 – I was followed to the Save Mart Shopping center at Blackstone and Clinton by what I believe to be Fresno Sheriff personnel. As I was at the meat counter, a fast walking person talking on a cell phone came into the store and abruptly stopped at the main opening of the grocery store. He did a complete 360 as if he was searching for someone. I noticed him right away because of his behavior. He didn’t appear to be a typical shopper. As we made eye contact, he appeared startled that I had noticed him. I was at the meat counter which is near the entrance of the store. As I left the store with my groceries I couldn’t find him anywhere. But, as I made my way to the parking lot and started to unlock my trunk, he came out of the store, still talking on the phone. He walked past me without making eye contact and entered a late model green Chevy or GMC Step-Side truck with custom chrome rims. As I entered my car and pulled out, I drove slowly past the rear of his vehicle in an attempt to read his license plate. However I couldn’t remember the license plate number, because, as I left the store I was interrupted by a phone call. About two blocks away from the store I received a call from a person who sarcastically said my full name, then proceeded to ask me questions about a boat repair. The Number was: 559-392-5087. I’ve never had a customer address me by my first and last name before, especially someone I hadn’t talked to before. I’m confident this number and caller is connected to this SaveMart incident. I believe this person and others is related to something more complicated and devious than simple harassment. This type of “close proximity” tracking can only mean one thing. I believe this person and others are tacking and monitoring my minute by minute incremental movements so they can direct another party to illegally enter my residence for the purpose of gaining “intel” or planting evidence. I had suspected that someone was entering my home in the past. For example, on August 1st or 2nd, 2014, I returned from Home Depot to find my inner back door locked. In 10 years I have never locked this inner door, because there is no key to open it, I simply use it as a pull handle. I simply lock the outer metal security door. I was so alarmed by this event that I grabbed a pipe and kicked in the inner door thinking a burglar was inside my residence. The only person who would lock this inner door would be someone who is unfamiliar with this residence. My Daughter witnessed this event as did my periodic helper and friend Juan Ramirez (559-213-7860).

12/13/2014 – Silver Quad Cab Ford 4×4 truck continually driving past my house as I did lawn and yard work in my front yard. After making “eye contact” with the driver of vehicle, and as he passed by, I immediately received a hang-up call from 559-389-0357.

Less than two weeks after concluding a police harassment complaint with the Fresno PD Internal Affairs Department via Richard Rasmussen's Office of "Independent" Review, I was the lucky recipient of yet another episode in the "show of force and intimidation" by Fresno PD. Fresno PD boldly and arrogantly "posted up", in gang formation directly across the street from my home to send me yet another Fresno PD "signature
 

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Published on Apr 16, 2015
This is the same Fresno California Sheriff crew that has been illegally entering my property and home when I leave my house. Here they are using an Infra-Red Thermal Imager to see if I am home. They then phone a waiting second party with information as to weather or not I am home. Fresno PD fails to fully investigate my complaint on this incident which I fully detailed in my Fresno PD Internal Affairs complaint. If anyone can identify any of the Fresno Sheriff personnel in this video please forward their names.
 

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Spooky. Guy sounds like a fucking nut but who knows. Maybe his neighbourhood is shitty and it was a coincidence? Still pretty wild.
 

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And it's sad, because a well-intentioned bunch of guys join what they believe is a force for good will.
Some become as corrupt as the corporate/socialist laws they enforce.
Some negotiate their position in despair, knowing it is an unwinnable battle, but winnable within' their own families if they survive.
Some lose everything they were, and make their entire goal the next achievement.
Some who stand steadfast are crucified for not covering for their "own".
And some make it through the war, with some measure of pride, for at least trying and doing their best.

They are truly between a rock and a hard place.
The entire system needs torn down and rebuilt, starting with a gold standard.
This starts and bleeds down from the very top.
 

Daglord

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Those videos are pretty damning.
I'm usually split on this issue for the most part, but yeah, those vids are pretty fucked up.

there are more, I posted 2 I thought were the most interesting. some might be a stretch, but considering the others who knows. he was posting his videos & crazy stuff on his facebook as well.

Lang Marine

thought it was an interesting story. reminded me a little bit of myron may.
 

KWingJitsu

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Holyshit. Fresno police are a gang, not a law enforcement agency.
Most PDs in the United States are......

A wise man once said "There are no good cops. There are only bad cops and silent cops".

May John rest in peace.
May the thug cops responsible get killed on duty.
 

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How does he know that was thermal imaging? Thermal imagine can't go through walls anyway, so it would be useless in telling if someone is home. Maybe the special ops have some shit like that, but certainly not the police.
 

teamquestnorth

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Wow this is some scary shit.

Youd think if it was the cops that killed him they wouldnt have done it so messy.

It would probably be easier just to get a sniper to take him out.
 

teamquestnorth

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How does he know that was thermal imaging? Thermal imagine can't go through walls anyway, so it would be useless in telling if someone is home. Maybe the special ops have some shit like that, but certainly not the police.
What do you think that thing was? I'm curious myself. I was thinking maybe something to intercept his calls or to jam his internet
 

Papi Chingon

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What do you think that thing was? I'm curious myself. I was thinking maybe something to intercept his calls or to jam his internet
Don't really know to be honest. Could have been a jammer, could have been a sound detector, could have been something looking for hot wires (maybe for his exterior cameras power sources?)...odd looking device.
 

Darqnezz

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Probably filming an episode of cops. They shoot in Fresno all the time.
 

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Don't really know to be honest. Could have been a jammer, could have been a sound detector, could have been something looking for hot wires (maybe for his exterior cameras power sources?)...odd looking device.
agreed. I have no idea what that was.

I would also assume that if they were imaging/jamming/surveying the house, & trying to be discreet about it, they wouldn't sit directly across from him with their door wide open in broad daylight.

seemed more like an act of intimidation imo.

that video of the cops parking & posting up across his street was fucked.
 

Papi Chingon

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agreed. I have no idea what that was.

I would also assume that if they were imaging/jamming/surveying the house, & trying to be discreet about it, they wouldn't sit directly across from him with their door wide open in broad daylight.

seemed more like an act of intimidation imo.

that video of the cops parking & posting up across his street was fucked.
If the guy pissed someone off, I could see someone fucking with him like this, especially if they knew he was paranoid.
 

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How does he know that was thermal imaging? Thermal imagine can't go through walls anyway, so it would be useless in telling if someone is home. Maybe the special ops have some shit like that, but certainly not the police.
Fresno PD has a large budget, receives federal funding, and has created a huge stash of military equipment. No reason to think they do not have equal equipment to a special forces company.

Gangs are bad in Fresno. Shit is no joke and people will kill you same as they would in Oakland. Their PD is prepared to fight a mini army, like the Fresno Bulldogs for one.
 

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Body cams should be mandatory for people who have guns and a badge that says they are allowed to use those guns to kill people with impunity.