July 3, 2025

Chico Cano

Chico Cano
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Before company B of the Texas Rangers executed 15 Mexican men and boys in Porvenir, Texas, they asked each one, “are you Chico Cano?”. But who was Chico Cano? It depends who you ask. If you ask the Texas rangers, he was a deranged Mexican bandit, who led a band of 100 Mexicans and stole cattle and killed indiscriminately along the US-Mexico border. But the truth is more complicated than that. In this episode, Cristina tells Carmen about Chico Cano.

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https://refusingtoforget.org/chico-cano
https://www.odmp.org/officer/12299-customs-agent-joseph-russell-sitter
https://npshistory.com/publications/bibe/wthss-19-3.pdf
https://uncpress.org/book/9781469670126/borders-of-violence-and-justice

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Hi everyone. This is Carmen and Christina and this is

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Estodia's Unknown, a podcast where we talk about Latin American history.

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Sometimes it's horrible until the tavy topics like critcism, corruption

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and genocide, but more than that, it's also by resistance,

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power and community. And today Chico Cano. Oh okay, Like

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two episodes ago, I was gonna say, do you want

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to talk about how you got here? Yes? I am

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doing that right now. Two episodes ago, in the Porvened

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massacre episode, I mentioned this name, but there was so

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much to cover in the episode that I just I

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just said his name and I didn't, you know, go

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into detail because it was already so heavy. But like

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I said, in that episode, before a company B of

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the Texas Rangers executed fifteen Mexican men and boys in Borvened,

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they asked each one are you Chicocano? And then I'm like,

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why did I This needs to be explained. It feels

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unfinished if I don't say more about Chico Kano, right.

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I think all you said then was that he was

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like a bandit, right, and he had just stolen I

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don't know what from where, and it was wanted basically

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he was wanted. Yes, So who was Chico Kano? That's

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what I'm answering today. You tell me, okay, tell me

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so it And sorry before I get into that, this

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is going to be a shorter episode because there's not

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a lot of information out there on him. You know

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what short episodes are arcade to mix in. Yeah, they are,

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they are and we need them. Yeah. So who was

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Chico Kano? It depends what you ask. If you ask

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the Texas Rangers Loz rien Chez, los Rinchez, Yeah, the

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Texas Rangers, he was a deranged Mexican bandit who led

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a band of one hundred Mexican bandits and stole cattle

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and killed in discriminately along the US Mexico border. WHOA.

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And actually, if you ask most white Texas history enthusiasts today,

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they would give you the same answer because they love

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the Texas Rangers. They love vigilancy, justice, they love the

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stories of white men upholding the law. And I say

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that in quotation marks. They love all this. Yeah, they

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really do. So if you ask them, they would tell

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you the same thing about Chico Kano. But us here

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I started as ant known, that's not what we're about right,

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we're about the opposite. Yeah, So who was Chicokano? Why

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were the Texas Rangers so obsessed? Are you so obsessed

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with me? Thank you? I was waiting for that and

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I knew you were delivered, like I had no question

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of course. Yes. Fanancis Cocano was born in Mexico in

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the eighteen eighties and in his very young adulthood, like

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I don't know, probably eighteen nineteen. It's hard because there's

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no exact years or ages right, any of this. But

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at some point in his young adulthood he ran a

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ranch with his brothers Manuel, Jose Antonio and Robe Larvo.

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And this branch of layers was near San Antonio del Bravo,

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across the river from Candelaria, Texas, but in Mexico, right,

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But again the border was made up, a line was drawn,

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and these places that were once the same place are

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no longer the same place now it was split. Yeah,

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but that's how close like they were. They could see Gandelaria,

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Texas from their ranch, and so the Gano brothers were

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very successful cattle ranchers. But like I couldn't stress enough

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in the five episodes that we did about mob violence,

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toward Mexicans. We know, this was a very tumultuous time period,

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especially along the border. And yes there was violence on

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both sides, but nothing like the violence Mexicans faced. The

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violence and prejudice Mexicans face right from white people during

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this time period. It was like not matched at all,

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Like one side was defending themselves. Yes, and again, five thousand,

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at least five thousand Mexicans died during this time period.

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And that's a Texas alone, without counting everywhere else. You know,

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so there was a lot of cattle theft and ranch

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raids during these years. I don't want to discount that

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that did happen, Okay, but one man, Joe Sitter, who

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was a Texas Ranger for a while and then at

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some point he was a US Customs Person officer or whatever.

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But it's hard to tell when he stopped being a

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ranger and then became a US Customs person because he

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was doing the same thing. He was often riding out

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with the Texas Rangers on missions and like literally doing

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the same violent shit to Mexicans. Again celebrated by the whites,

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by those that love the Texas Rangers, like this is

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a very celebrated man me, I don't know. So one man,

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Joe Sitter, who owned a ranch near Valentine, Texas, over

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one hundred miles away from the Gano brothers ranch in Mexico.

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Joe Sitter, this man blamed Chico Gano for every single

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raid in the region. And I cannot find anywhere why

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Joe Sitter was doing this. I don't know. I don't

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know why or where their past first cross, Like, I

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couldn't tell you. I searched and searched, and I just

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I don't know. At some point in his life, Chico

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did have several run ins with the Texas Rangers. There's

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even a very famous picture of him with two Texas Rangers,

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but they're just standing there. They're just like chatting with him.

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They're not arresting him. He was a very well known

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person during this time period. He had legendary marksmanship skills,

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like people would go up to him and tell him, like, hey,

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can you shoot this from this far away? And he

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would do it. And also he was very well known

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for his ranch and his like you know, raising animal

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cattle whatever, Right, So he was a very well known Mexican.

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I just don't know when he and Joe Sitter crossed paths,

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but he did have several run ins with the Texas Rangers.

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They knew who he was even before his official indictment. Again,

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he was never charged with anything. He was never arrested

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at all during the time period that Joe Setter was

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out here accusing him of every single raid in the region.

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Maybe he was just jealous, right, That's what it seems like,

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because he was not yet supposedly leading a band of

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one hundred bandits like that wasn't a thing yet, but

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he was still out here accusing of every single rat

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that was happening. And Juan Sanchez, nephew of Chico, stated

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in an interview published in the book Bandilo, The Story

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of Chico Kano, the Last Western Bandit Side not that

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book is very expensive. I could not get it for

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this episode. How much was it? Oh my god, like

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one hundred dollars. I guess it's very limited. I don't know.

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But in that book, his nephew says that Chico had

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it in for Joe Sitter because Joe Sitter had beaten

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him with the lasso even as he sat captured a

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top of Joe Sitter's horse. Okay, but this where I'm

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talking about right now. This has not happened yet. Joe

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Sitter was already accusing Chico of banditry. Okay, so he

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hated him before that. Yeah, he already hated him before this, Okay,

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So again I can't figure out what the cause was. Again,

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I just think he was jealous, honestly. So during this time,

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Chico had not yet done any actual banditry. And I

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say that in quotations always because I don't believe it.

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But he was very well known. Like again, him and

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his brothers were so successful. He was legendary and his

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shooting skills, and there was one incident before. Actually, I

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can't figure out when this incident happened because again it's

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very hard to find dates of when anything happened. So

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I don't know if this happened before or after Joe

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Sitter was officially after him. But at some point Chiko

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Kano did accidentally kill another man, and some people, the

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way they tell it make him out to be some vicious, crazy,

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deranged Mexican. It doesn't seem that that's the case from

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like anecdotal accounts of this incident. But someone said, okay,

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we'll shoot the bottle off this guy's head from some

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distance away, and he missed and the guy died, damn.

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And so that seems like the real version. But again

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if you look at these I don't know, I'm making

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website names up, but like Texas History or Border History

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Texas and it's like ran by someone white. That's not

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the way they would tell the story. But from what

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I can find, that's how it happened. So maybe that's

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that was another reason why he was out for him,

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like Joe Sitter so against Chico. But I don't know

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because I can't tell when this happened. I can't find dates. Weird,

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but well not weird because how long ago, right, So yeah,

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I'm not sure when this happened. But in nineteen thirteen,

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Joe Sitter, along with customs inspector Jack Howard and cattleman

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Ja Harvest, set out on a journey to apprehend Chico

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for his supposed crimes that again he was not committing.

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He was not charged with like at all. But they

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were like, we need to apprehend this bandit even though

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again at this point, no official crimes, no, no known crimes, right,

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no evidence of anything. But they set out to catch

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him and they found Chico at the wake of a

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family friend. Oh wow, what kind of shit is that?

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It feels rude, right, And the way they tell this story,

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and I'm just like, I can never trust anything these

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people say, right, But the way they tell the story

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is that Chico asked them to let the women at

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the funeral go because they're innocent. They're women, right, And

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the very kind Texas rangers agreed. Wow generous. Again, I'm

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not sure Joe Sitter was a ranger at this point,

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or if he was already to go there. Yeah, but

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he was there doing the work of a Texas ranger anyway,

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even in this incident of him trying to apprehend Chico

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for no reason. It was something that a ranger should

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have been doing. But I don't know if he was

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or was not one at this point. So the very

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kind white men agreed and they let the women leave,

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But among them were Mexican bandits dressed as women to escape,

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and all of them, every single one, got away, except

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for Chico because he was unusually tall for a Mexican

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in this time period, and so he stood out in

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a dress. They were like, that's not a woman, that's

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a man. Yes, yes, So that's the story they tell.

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So they detained him, put him on one of the

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horses they had to transport him. And now this is

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where the incident that I mentioned earlier, this is where

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that takes place, where Chico was beaten with a lasso

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by Joe Sitter while tied up on Jositer's horse. And

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so someone that knew Chico and his brothers saw this

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from across the river, and they went out to tell

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Chico's or and they rode out to tell Chico's brothers

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what was happening that some men had Chico, and they

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his brothers fearing that it's not an unfounded fear of

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theirs that that Chico wasn't going to make it to

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any jail like that that they killed. Yes, because this

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was so common, like discussed in all those episodes about

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mob violence towards Mexicans. So yeah, very very valid fear

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of theirs that that they were just going to harm Chico.

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And so they made a plan to rescue him, Yeah,

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fearing he wasn't going to make the jail, and so

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Roberlarvo and Manuel Gano rode out and ambushed Joe Sitter

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and the two other men and Jositter received a bullet

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to his head and somehow s arrived which is that

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time period. Yeah, the Harvest guy Ja Harvest was shot

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in the leg and he lived too. Howard that one

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he died several days later from a bullet wound from

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a stomach. And so the brothers and Chiko they escape together.

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And so this is the event that made Chico an

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official bandit. They officially declared him a bandit widely like

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they would put out newspapers that said Kano's Bunch is

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believed to be part of a gang of one hundred

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Mexicans or so formally followers of General Orosco in the

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Mexican Revolution, who are now engaged wholly in the outlawry

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and attached to neither the Granta or the Via factions.

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They steal cattle on the Mexican side and then smuggle

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them into Texas or vice versa. They steal horses on

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the Texas side and smuggle them into Mexico. They have

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had a number of clashes with the state and government officers,

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and only two weeks ago two of the Mexicans were

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killed like that that was titled one hundred men in gang.

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Another one Chiko Kano's band of one hundred outlaws terrorized

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border like, so they were putting things out like this.

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But he at this point hadn't hadn't up until them, right,

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he hadn't done anything like this. But so when they

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pulled up at the wake, and that's when he tried

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to get away by dressing it was a woman, and

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he was caught, right, and then the brothers took him

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from basically detainment with the rangers. Right, what was the

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reason they went to the wake? And no reason? No?

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Okay again for no and I so he at this

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point he was wanted for no reason because he had

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been detained for no reason. Right, Joe Sitter kept blaming

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him for every single raid, but but tying him to

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that there was really no reason to suspect that at all. Yes,

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Joe Redders were or setter my band SI, Yes, sorry, Yeah,

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I don't care. I said it for you. Yeah. At

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that point of them going to apprehend him, he hadn't

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done anything, okay, except that Joe Sitter kept accusing him

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of these raids. But yeah, so I mean to me,

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they're just rescuing their brother from yeah, probable death. Yeah,

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and if that's a crime then I don't know, but

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that's when they declared him a bandit officially. They would

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put out newspaper articles like this that I just read.

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And so after that is when he joins the Mexican Revolution.

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But he had like no ties to anyone but his family.

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Even as part of the Mexican Revolution, he switched sides

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a lot. He was with uh Garanza and then later

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with Pancho VI. Yeah, like you know, he was switching

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sides a lot. And during this time he had a

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alleged second run in with Joe Sitter. So Joe Sitter, like,

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I don't know, he spent his life trying to find Chicocano.

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And I feel like Chico Kano was just like who

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is this? He was just a hater hating her free.

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I really cannot find what caused this. But so Joe

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Sitter made it his life mission to cunt Chicocano down.

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And so Sitter, Joe Sitter and arranger Eugene Holand heard

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about where Chico Kano might be after torturing a friend

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of Chico Kano's. Wow, So then they traveled to where

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he allegedly was. When they arrived to this location, they

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came under fire during this alleged trying to hunt like

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a day, allegedly Chico Kano was there, they came under fire,

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they died. Authorities later found Joe Sitter and Eugene Holand

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badly disfigured, which then amplified the hate for Chico Gano.

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But there was zero evidence proof at all that Chicogano

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was even in this area, So it could have been anyone.

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It could have been anyone whoever fired at Joe Sitter

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and this other Texas ranger did it from one hundred

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and twenty feet away. But even then, even then, that

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is what Chico Kano's official indictment is for Chico Kano

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is not here for an old charge. Federal court here

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holds several in diamonds for resistance to revenue officers. Chico Kano,

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the famous Mexican bandit, now considerably in the public eye

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due to the fact he was supposed to have been

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the leader of bandit gang who demanded fifteen thousand for

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the release of Oh Sorry. At some point two pilots

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landed New Mexico and they were kidnapped by by hid

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Its revolutionaries. No, just I don't know if it was him.

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Officially or not, it's unclear, but they were freed, you know.

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But before that he was charged with the killing and

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Sard's there Gocano, most of which is connected to the

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ruthless killing of United States Revenue officers Jack Howard and

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Joe Sitter in nineteen fifteen and Rangel Holand one of

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the one of the best Texas has known, was also

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slain by Mexican bandits about the time Joe Sitter met

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his death. They were together, so like this he died

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at the same time us they're trying to meet. There

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were their work count Jesus. So yeah, he was indicted.

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That was the like you know, newspaper or whatever from

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that when he was indicted. But again they were shot

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at from one hundred and twenty feet away. There was

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never any clear hard evidence that this was even Chico Kano.

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And the way you read it even like in the

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what website is this hold on? If you go to

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the Customs oh Officer down memorial page, you know this

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is going to be like so stupid, like full of

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propaganda this website officer down memorial page, but it says

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Customs agents Joseph Russell Sitter and if you hear it here. Okay,

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So it looks like in nineteen twelve, Sitter had arrested

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Chico for horse and meal stealing again though that was

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his job, he could he easily could have been transporting

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his own Yeah, and then decided to just target him

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because he was Mexican and they were doing that back then,

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just like now. And so yeah, it looks like that's

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the first time they arrested him. He was arrested again later. Oh,

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this is when he they took him. Okay, So yeah,

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says I look at the way they tell that their version.

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On February tenth, nineteen thirteen, Agent Sitter, Inspector Jack Howard,

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and a Brand inspector again arrested Chico Kano as they

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transferred him to the Rugged Mountains and Pilattice Canyon, the

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man's brothers and friends and Bush the three lawmen. Inspector

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Howard was killed while Agent Sitter and the Brand inspector

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were wounded. They again went to arrest him for no reason.

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At the wake of a of a I don't remember

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you saying earlier that the some of the rangers had

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died during that one man died Howard. I could just

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say it, oh, I don't remember, and I said, I

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know you do. You are falling asleep, not just kidding, damn.

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Oh yeah, okay, so the night, no, I said, I'm

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trying to make you sound better, but yeah, you don't

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deserve it. No, I said, he Sitter was shot in

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the head, the other guy in the leg, and then

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the other guy died. Do you remember that? Oh oh,

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and then he somehow survived. Yeah, okay, I remember the

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guy that was shot in the head and the leg,

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but not the guy that died. So the way this

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website tells the talks about the death of Agent Sitter

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is okay, I'm going to read that. On May twenty four,

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nineteen fifteen, Agent Sitter gathered a posse that included a

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fellow State's Custom Service inspector along with three Texas Rangers

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to capture Kano on his gang. When the posse arrived

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Dappilattis Canyon, they could see some stolen horses in the canyon.

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A disagreement arose amongst the lawmen as to whether it

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was in ambush. Agent Sitter decided to split the group

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and enter the canyon. One of the groups started up

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one side of the canyon, where they came under heavy

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fire and retreated. They could see Agent Sitter and Private

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hole In pinned down across the canyon and tried five

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times unsuccessfully to reach them. The three officers walked four

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miles to a ranch and sum had help. The next

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day a posse arrived and found Agent Center and Private

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Holen stripped naked, shot scores of times, and their faces

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unrecognizable from having been beaten with large stones. Which, yeah,

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that is that is horrible mm hmm. But there was

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zero against zero evidence that this was Chico Kano at all.

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It could have been one of the many other people

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that he anchored and did horrible things too during his

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career as a Texas ranger. Like, we don't know, nobody

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knows who it was. But Chico Kano was indicted for

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the murder of Agentsitter Joe Sitter. But that's the way

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that that website tells will happen, which is very different

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from this this other like they you know, were fired

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from that many feet away, and like nobody knows who

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it was, right, Yeah, And it was around the same

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time that Chico Kano became a leader in the Mexican Revolution. Again,

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he switched signs a lot and then he eventually had

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his own militia, and so it's hard to say what

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he was doing was part of the Mexican revolution or

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was just like do just stealing things because he was

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a bandit and doing raids as a bandit instead of

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a revolutionary because two people, certain people don't differentiate the two,

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right while they are different. So it's hard to say

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what he was doing. But he was, you know, doing raids.

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And so the Bright Ranch raid happened around this time

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and there that was December nineteen seventeen, right, And like

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I said in the Porvinied episode, the Bright Ranch being

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raided is what led rangers to bor we need in

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the first place. The Rangers blamed Chico Kano, who theyre

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had already been after. It's like this person that keeps

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eluding them, keeps escaping them. He's already supposedly allegedly killed

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two of their own again not ever proven, but to them,

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he's done the worst thing you could do, kill an officer. Yes, yes,

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and so you could see why they were like so

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hell bent on getting revenge on this port town that

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had nothing to do with it. So they blamed Chico

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Kano for this raid and the ranch owner himself didn't

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think Chiko Kano was involved. That's interesting. He swore his innocence.

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He really didn't think Chiko Kano had anything to do

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with it. And if that doesn't like that, that alone

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should be enough. But no, And throughout his life, Chico

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Kano had several encounters with the Texas Rangers, and in

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nineteen nineteen after Portvenide, after the alleged indictment of him

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killing Joe Sitter, there's a famous picture of Chicocano. If

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you look at Chicogano right now, you like you'll find

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this is probably the first picture that will pump up.

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It's Chicocano just like you know, standing in a post

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for like hip to the side, smoking with a sombretto on,

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and he's with US military officials. He's the one in

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the biggest sombreto in the middle. Like you'll see him

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right away if you look this up to his left

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is both Major John Arthur Constantine and then Captain Leonard Mattock,

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and then the three men on next to him are

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his brothers in that picture. So they had already like

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so like they squash your beef? Is that what you're saying?

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Or what. Yeah, like this meeting apparently was to try

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and like settle tensions that were happening along the border,

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so they didn't arrest him in this picture, you know,

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like that's interesting. Yeah, yeah, so he was supposedly wanted

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at this time, and they he met with rangers and

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they look, I think this is not I think this

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is military. I don't think there's rangers. I couldn't be

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this a military didn't care about who the rangers wanted. True,

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could be, could be. But yeah, they met with him,

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and yeah, that's what this picture comes from. And doesn't

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he just look so cool? Did you look it up? No?

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Oh my god, it that you looked at him was

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soon acrossword. Oh okay, well I'll I'll send you the

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picture so you had the whole time you could just

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fucking send it to me. Okay, hold on, all right,

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I just sent it to you. Does he not look

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so cool? He's the one with the big high he said, Yeah,

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he's in the middle of big high. He stands out

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right away. You can you see him, and immediately you're like,

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that's that's one cool pers There's no denying that. It's

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a bandit right there now. That's a that's a bandit

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right there. It's a bandit for every seen one. We

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will post it on Instagram as well. And so the

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whole point of that is that he had these meetings

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run ins with US military and rangers all throughout his life,

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and although for a lot of his life the Rangers

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were after him, they never like actually brought him able

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to get him. Yeah, okay, over the course of his life,

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he'd been shopped fourteen times, wow, mostly by the rangers,

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and they never killed him. They never captured him other

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than the one time that his brother's freedom and you

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know he that that nineteen nineteen and diamond of the

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murder of Joe Sitter was still on him. But he

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was never tried for it, like even you know, way

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later when he maybe was not as strong and he

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couldn't run away as fast. Right, Like, It's like if

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they wanted, they could have brought him in, right, they

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could have. I would I would think something so too,

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But no, he was never tried for it, and he

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outlives like what you could say or his enemies were,

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he lived, all of them, like especially Joe Sitter. And

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what I wanted to talk about him is mainly because

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like talking about him, it left like one question in

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my head the whole time, like was he actually abandon

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or he only became a bandit because the law enforcement

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kept coming after him and Joe Sitter had already decided

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he was abandoned, like a self fulfilling prophecy, one would say,

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or kind of like kind of like someone fitting a

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stereotype that already exists, because it's a stereotype. I don't know, yeah,

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like I mean, it reminds me so much of like

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even you know, the law enforcement system now where it's

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like you, I mean, how many times did we see

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it where it would be just like a group of

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middle schoolers that look could look suspicious to someone else,

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but they're just walking and then they get stopped and

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stopped and stopped so much that eventually they it's like

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normalized and at some point they become criminals, right right, right,

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It's like the school to prison pipeline where yes, certain

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populations are like marginalized and basically set up for prison,

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they're criminalized, yes, And that's what his story makes me

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think of. And it's like he's one Mexican who was forced,

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essentially forced to become an actual bandit when law enforcement

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declared that they were. How many did this happen to? Yeah?

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Chiko Kano died at his ranch in nineteen forty three,

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and when he was asked if he feared meeting his maker,

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Chico responded, quote, my father was my maker, already was

454
00:28:00.519 --> 00:28:03.759
my maker. Distress was my maker. I have met them

455
00:28:03.799 --> 00:28:08.559
all my life. End quote. That was so badass. But

456
00:28:08.799 --> 00:28:11.799
so what's another for poignance? Because I can't say that

457
00:28:11.839 --> 00:28:14.480
fucking word. What does it do mean? That was so

458
00:28:14.640 --> 00:28:18.160
on point. Yes, that's what it means, Like, yeah, you

459
00:28:18.240 --> 00:28:21.359
know what I mean? Yeah, I get it now. And

460
00:28:22.279 --> 00:28:25.319
this information, most of it I found on Refusing to

461
00:28:25.359 --> 00:28:29.519
Forget on Org, coupled with other websites, but that's the

462
00:28:29.599 --> 00:28:33.119
main one, and they most of their information came from

463
00:28:33.799 --> 00:28:37.279
Orders of Violence and Justice by Brian Beckhen and he

464
00:28:37.480 --> 00:28:40.039
is the main cover. The picture, the picture that's so

465
00:28:40.160 --> 00:28:42.039
cool that I went on a little too long about.

466
00:28:43.400 --> 00:28:46.839
That's the picture the cover of this book. Oh okay,

467
00:28:46.960 --> 00:28:48.960
And this book I think is a little easier to

468
00:28:49.079 --> 00:28:52.119
obtain than the other one that was like one hundred

469
00:28:52.160 --> 00:28:57.559
dollars oh twenty nine five? Yeah, not bad, not it

470
00:28:57.640 --> 00:29:01.559
could be worse. But yeah, Borders of violence and justice Mexicans,

471
00:29:01.799 --> 00:29:04.680
Mexican Americans and law enforcement in the Southwest eighteen thirty

472
00:29:04.680 --> 00:29:07.400
five to nineteen thirty five. And that's probably the most

473
00:29:07.440 --> 00:29:10.559
like unbiased source if you're not looking at what's it

474
00:29:10.640 --> 00:29:15.039
called like Texan websites Officer down memorial page or yeah,

475
00:29:15.079 --> 00:29:19.400
those Textan websites that often leave out things like how

476
00:29:19.519 --> 00:29:21.799
he had not been charged with anything prior to this,

477
00:29:22.440 --> 00:29:25.880
but Joe Sner was still out to get him, And yeah,

478
00:29:25.960 --> 00:29:27.680
that's that's why I want to talk about this one

479
00:29:27.680 --> 00:29:31.039
because it felt incomplete mentioning him at the port in

480
00:29:31.079 --> 00:29:34.839
the Portviinate massacre episode, and it leaves you wondering like

481
00:29:34.920 --> 00:29:38.319
why were the Texas Rangers like asking every single Mexican

482
00:29:38.440 --> 00:29:41.920
are you Chicocano? Who is this Chico Cano? But also

483
00:29:42.279 --> 00:29:45.240
because it touches on we can always compare things to today,

484
00:29:46.039 --> 00:29:49.119
right with how you mentioned that pipeline, you know what?

485
00:29:49.400 --> 00:29:52.640
That actually made me think of Dear America by Juos

486
00:29:52.640 --> 00:29:56.640
Antonio Marquez, who is Filipino. And I know some people

487
00:29:56.799 --> 00:30:01.640
are lying on TikTok they're recommending like, oh, Latino books

488
00:30:01.720 --> 00:30:04.240
on immigration to read in this important time and then

489
00:30:04.240 --> 00:30:06.640
they recommend that book, and I'm like, it's very clear

490
00:30:06.839 --> 00:30:09.920
in the first few pages that he's Filipino. Yeah, so

491
00:30:10.000 --> 00:30:12.720
I'm like, what the hell. But anyway, it's such an important,

492
00:30:12.839 --> 00:30:18.599
vital book. Not only does it talk about his gruel journey,

493
00:30:18.599 --> 00:30:24.200
I guess you could say with immigration, the immigration system,

494
00:30:24.920 --> 00:30:28.319
it also talks about the history of like immigration law

495
00:30:28.359 --> 00:30:33.799
in the United States, colonization of Latin America, and where

496
00:30:33.839 --> 00:30:37.839
he's from the Philippines since we have a common colonizer.

497
00:30:38.519 --> 00:30:43.039
But anyway, he talks about how once he learned he

498
00:30:43.200 --> 00:30:51.000
was undocumented, and I can't imagine the like living your

499
00:30:51.039 --> 00:30:54.079
whole life thinking this isn't an issue, this is in

500
00:30:54.160 --> 00:30:56.319
the forefront of your mind, and then learning once you're

501
00:30:56.480 --> 00:30:59.240
trying to go to college and or trying to get

502
00:30:59.279 --> 00:31:02.240
a live set. Yeah. Yeah, And I want to say,

503
00:31:02.240 --> 00:31:03.960
I think he was trying to get his driver's license.

504
00:31:04.160 --> 00:31:06.240
I don't think it was right. I think by college

505
00:31:06.519 --> 00:31:08.240
he knew when he was When it came time for

506
00:31:08.319 --> 00:31:10.319
him to apply college, if I'm remembering right, he knew

507
00:31:10.440 --> 00:31:12.039
that he was undocumented. I think he was trying to

508
00:31:12.039 --> 00:31:13.720
get his license or get a part time job or

509
00:31:13.759 --> 00:31:19.359
something like that. He in order to survive in under capitalism,

510
00:31:19.880 --> 00:31:24.559
in order to keep living his life, he was forced

511
00:31:25.279 --> 00:31:29.400
to do crimes technically, right, he was forced to. I

512
00:31:29.440 --> 00:31:32.359
don't remember what he details in his book what steps

513
00:31:32.400 --> 00:31:35.559
he took to try to pass I guess he could

514
00:31:35.599 --> 00:31:39.440
say to try to hide his undocumented status. And I

515
00:31:39.559 --> 00:31:41.480
know at one point he like he needs to. He

516
00:31:41.920 --> 00:31:44.960
finds out one of the only states that gives licenses

517
00:31:45.079 --> 00:31:48.680
to undocument people. When he goes there. I don't remember

518
00:31:48.759 --> 00:31:51.119
if he gets like forged, you know, paperwork, like a

519
00:31:51.240 --> 00:31:54.519
lot of undocumented people do because you have to work,

520
00:31:54.680 --> 00:31:59.799
you know. Yeah, and yeah, so he's like these these

521
00:32:00.720 --> 00:32:04.440
they made me, you know, a criminal. Yeah. And then

522
00:32:04.599 --> 00:32:08.559
and I say that in quotation markets. Yeah. Yeah, so

523
00:32:08.640 --> 00:32:10.279
that's what it makes me think of. And such an

524
00:32:10.319 --> 00:32:12.839
important book. I highly recommend it. I need to read it.

525
00:32:13.319 --> 00:32:16.960
But yes, that is also another similarity we can look

526
00:32:17.000 --> 00:32:19.839
to today. Yeah. And god, I was gonna say one

527
00:32:19.920 --> 00:32:23.119
more thing. Oh, also, the show Mo Have you seen it?

528
00:32:23.160 --> 00:32:25.480
It's on Netflix. No, I've heard of it though. Yeah.

529
00:32:25.519 --> 00:32:29.880
He's Palestinian. Yeah, and because of the way they left Palestine,

530
00:32:30.559 --> 00:32:34.680
they're not official refugees. They also don't have their like

531
00:32:35.079 --> 00:32:38.319
immigrants here in the US, he has to work without

532
00:32:38.319 --> 00:32:41.480
a social Security number. He gets fired, like the guy

533
00:32:41.519 --> 00:32:43.559
he's working with lets him work there without a Social

534
00:32:43.559 --> 00:32:46.200
Security number for the longest time. But like under the table,

535
00:32:46.640 --> 00:32:48.799
under the table, what raids are happening, and he has

536
00:32:48.839 --> 00:32:51.200
to let him go before he's caught. So he lets

537
00:32:51.240 --> 00:32:53.400
him go. And so then the main character Mo is

538
00:32:53.480 --> 00:32:58.200
forced to sell bootleg scarred to make a living and

539
00:32:58.279 --> 00:33:01.640
that's a crime because he has to make a living.

540
00:33:01.880 --> 00:33:04.240
That reminds me yet, Sorry, I don't want to cut

541
00:33:04.279 --> 00:33:06.279
you off before. No, no, that was it. That was

542
00:33:06.319 --> 00:33:09.319
my point, okay. On TikTok, I saw and I think

543
00:33:09.359 --> 00:33:13.440
I reposted it. This black woman her I don't think

544
00:33:13.480 --> 00:33:16.039
her mom was. I think her dad was an immigrant

545
00:33:16.519 --> 00:33:19.599
and I cannot remember I saw it. A Haitian immigrant.

546
00:33:19.720 --> 00:33:23.319
Oh Haitian that's right, yes, yeah, yeah, that's right. Her

547
00:33:23.440 --> 00:33:25.799
dad was Haitian. And she just talks about how her

548
00:33:26.000 --> 00:33:32.319
dad was undocumented and basically criminalized, like he he is

549
00:33:32.359 --> 00:33:37.000
a marginalized, you know, criminalized person because he's black and

550
00:33:38.000 --> 00:33:41.920
basically how he ended up committing crimes, but because he

551
00:33:42.039 --> 00:33:44.680
was already being like I don't know what the word is,

552
00:33:44.759 --> 00:33:48.079
targeted maybe like set up for that, yeah, and not

553
00:33:48.240 --> 00:33:50.559
set up like in a sting or like what is

554
00:33:50.599 --> 00:33:53.440
that entrapment type of way, but like he was already

555
00:33:53.480 --> 00:33:55.960
looked at as a criminal and he couldn't find another

556
00:33:56.039 --> 00:33:57.920
way to make a living, and so that's what ended

557
00:33:58.039 --> 00:34:01.799
up doing. And that's such a common story. Yes, and

558
00:34:02.200 --> 00:34:06.079
that all those things I mentioned now is what I

559
00:34:06.240 --> 00:34:09.559
was thinking of as I was looking into this story

560
00:34:09.599 --> 00:34:13.480
of Chicogano who was forced to become a bandit. And

561
00:34:13.599 --> 00:34:17.000
if you were to only hear the popular story of yeah,

562
00:34:17.360 --> 00:34:19.519
then yeah, he sounds like a bandit. But you don't

563
00:34:19.599 --> 00:34:22.960
know what led to this, right, and that's why we're here,

564
00:34:24.000 --> 00:34:27.400
right to make this one less history unknown for you. Wow,

565
00:34:27.679 --> 00:34:30.639
such a great tie in there, right, not tying, but

566
00:34:32.159 --> 00:34:36.320
you concluded it for us. Okay, well, let's not wait

567
00:34:36.440 --> 00:34:39.199
unless there's a conclusion you want to add. No, but

568
00:34:39.280 --> 00:34:42.920
it was a beautiful conclusion. Yeah, I don't think so, Yeah,

569
00:34:44.719 --> 00:34:47.199
I guess we could. Well, we already have a little

570
00:34:47.239 --> 00:34:51.679
ad plugging in our Patreon, right, just do it again. Okay, Well,

571
00:34:52.119 --> 00:34:56.840
I'm plugging our Patreon if you want to support us monetarily,

572
00:34:56.960 --> 00:35:02.480
because it is rather u time consuming. Although we love

573
00:35:02.559 --> 00:35:06.320
it to do the research. That's the main thing. Do

574
00:35:07.119 --> 00:35:12.679
the research and write for our episodes. So if you

575
00:35:12.719 --> 00:35:15.760
want to support us monetarily to keep the podcast going,

576
00:35:16.599 --> 00:35:21.360
you can join the Patreon where we yap about current events.

577
00:35:22.519 --> 00:35:25.960
We wanted it because a long time ago we tried

578
00:35:26.000 --> 00:35:30.880
to start an internet like, I don't know, gossip type

579
00:35:30.920 --> 00:35:33.960
of podcast because we love to yap about that. Yeah,

580
00:35:34.000 --> 00:35:36.679
and so internet trends. Yeah, our episodes were going to

581
00:35:36.760 --> 00:35:39.039
be that, but things have been so serious lately that

582
00:35:39.519 --> 00:35:43.760
it's yeah that way, you were just yapping about current events. Yeah,

583
00:35:43.960 --> 00:35:47.239
so we we've talked about the ice raids that are

584
00:35:47.320 --> 00:35:49.840
going on. We've talked about doctor Phil and how we

585
00:35:49.920 --> 00:35:55.400
hate him, different things anyway, So yeah, if you are

586
00:35:55.480 --> 00:35:57.599
interested in that, then you can check out the patreon

587
00:35:57.800 --> 00:36:03.320
and then we are also donating the patreon money, right, yeah,

588
00:36:03.400 --> 00:36:06.440
twenty percent of that goes to Okay, yeah, I could

589
00:36:06.440 --> 00:36:08.960
remember the percentage. Yeah, and I just chose. I just

590
00:36:09.039 --> 00:36:13.159
chose twenty because more than ten but less than fifteen. Again,

591
00:36:13.880 --> 00:36:18.119
we need we need help. Yeah, but yeah, it lately

592
00:36:18.280 --> 00:36:20.239
I have been using the same one because like I

593
00:36:20.400 --> 00:36:23.920
don't have and it's it's still an excellent organization, but

594
00:36:23.960 --> 00:36:25.360
I said we were going to do different ones, but

595
00:36:25.440 --> 00:36:29.199
I haven't. I've been doing twenty percent to Alotro Lavo

596
00:36:29.320 --> 00:36:33.320
and Alotto Lavo. They help with legal help for migrants

597
00:36:33.440 --> 00:36:36.159
as well as like they have teams that go out

598
00:36:36.199 --> 00:36:40.599
into the desert and leave supplies for anyone there so

599
00:36:40.719 --> 00:36:44.400
that they don't die out there. Yeah, they do important work,

600
00:36:44.480 --> 00:36:46.880
and so that's the one I've been doing. I did

601
00:36:47.039 --> 00:36:51.280
do for a GoFundMe for someone who was ran over

602
00:36:52.199 --> 00:36:55.159
during the No King's protests and then someone who was

603
00:36:55.599 --> 00:36:58.840
detained by ice here in my local city. So those

604
00:36:58.880 --> 00:37:00.800
are other things we've been doing. But the main one

605
00:37:00.840 --> 00:37:03.000
that we always do just because I already know it's

606
00:37:03.119 --> 00:37:07.159
there and it's just easy to do, is Yeah. But

607
00:37:07.960 --> 00:37:10.079
yeah that if you want to help us help as well.

608
00:37:10.159 --> 00:37:12.440
That's another thing we do with Patron and I guess

609
00:37:12.480 --> 00:37:15.320
before we go, if you are feeling overwhelmed during this time,

610
00:37:16.320 --> 00:37:20.440
as many of us are, you know, don't don't let

611
00:37:20.519 --> 00:37:25.159
that overwhelmness drive you to do nothing, but you know,

612
00:37:25.559 --> 00:37:29.719
just mope around at your house. It's very stressful, stressful

613
00:37:29.800 --> 00:37:32.599
for a lot of us that you know, lived in

614
00:37:32.719 --> 00:37:37.159
fear of our own family being deported or are still

615
00:37:37.239 --> 00:37:41.880
living in fear of that. But even if you can

616
00:37:42.079 --> 00:37:44.199
go out on the streets to protest, there's a lot

617
00:37:44.239 --> 00:37:46.519
of ways you can help out and so you can

618
00:37:46.559 --> 00:37:51.920
look into your local organizations that support migrants, or into

619
00:37:52.039 --> 00:37:55.000
the organizations that we talked about, like you can donate.

620
00:37:55.119 --> 00:37:57.559
There's a lot of ways to help, and so putting

621
00:37:57.639 --> 00:38:01.119
those feelings into action is a lot better than just

622
00:38:01.280 --> 00:38:07.440
feeling anxious and overwhelmed. Yes, yes, another thing that if

623
00:38:07.519 --> 00:38:11.639
you can't help, like monetarily. I did see a post

624
00:38:12.199 --> 00:38:16.079
so this is from car washers on Instagram, So it's

625
00:38:16.199 --> 00:38:18.320
car washers, but there's an X between the R and

626
00:38:18.639 --> 00:38:22.239
S that's the handle. But the organization is Clean car

627
00:38:22.480 --> 00:38:25.719
Wash Workers Center, and they shared that since June sixth,

628
00:38:25.800 --> 00:38:29.239
twenty twenty five, over thirty five car washes in La County,

629
00:38:29.360 --> 00:38:32.559
Orange County, and the Inland Empire have been targeted by

630
00:38:32.880 --> 00:38:36.280
ice and at least fifty five car wash workers have

631
00:38:36.400 --> 00:38:40.119
been taken by ice and they're working to identify the others.

632
00:38:40.440 --> 00:38:45.360
But due to this unrest, there's a need for groceries

633
00:38:45.480 --> 00:38:48.239
to be provided to car wash workers who are unable

634
00:38:48.320 --> 00:38:52.199
to leave their homes and they are providing groceries for

635
00:38:52.400 --> 00:38:56.599
two hundred car wash workers over two hundred and so

636
00:38:56.880 --> 00:38:59.440
they on their page put out these call to actions

637
00:38:59.519 --> 00:39:02.639
like this. This has already passed, but one of their

638
00:39:02.719 --> 00:39:05.280
call to actions is like having volunteers come in to

639
00:39:05.760 --> 00:39:09.760
deliver those groceries. Another one is for people to help

640
00:39:10.079 --> 00:39:13.400
package those grocery boxes, so they have people come package them,

641
00:39:13.440 --> 00:39:16.280
then they have people deliver them. They also are taking

642
00:39:16.360 --> 00:39:23.920
donations for like tortillas uros, rice potatoes, things that they

643
00:39:23.960 --> 00:39:26.360
can give, and they have they put out posts on

644
00:39:26.440 --> 00:39:29.519
what they need. And that's another amazing way to help

645
00:39:29.679 --> 00:39:33.719
that if you cannot help financially, you can go help

646
00:39:33.840 --> 00:39:36.280
box these these deliveries. Yes, if you have the time,

647
00:39:36.639 --> 00:39:38.639
you can share this so that someone else that has

648
00:39:38.719 --> 00:39:43.159
the funds can donate. You can you know, if you

649
00:39:43.199 --> 00:39:45.119
don't have money, you might not have extra groceries to give,

650
00:39:45.199 --> 00:39:47.039
but like there are other ways to help. Yeah, and

651
00:39:47.159 --> 00:39:49.519
that's in one excellent way. I have added this to

652
00:39:50.000 --> 00:39:54.519
the more info highlights on our Instagram page. But yeah,

653
00:39:54.639 --> 00:39:56.679
I mean that's one of the many ways to help.

654
00:39:57.760 --> 00:40:01.320
So yeah, okay, now I guess now, yeah, we are

655
00:40:01.440 --> 00:40:04.119
like always like saying goodbye and then adding on extra shit.

656
00:40:04.760 --> 00:40:10.679
But yeah, that was a good interesting story that you shared.

657
00:40:10.719 --> 00:40:16.159
Their my apologies for being so tired, but yeah, we

658
00:40:16.239 --> 00:40:22.360
hope this is one study for you. Bye bye. Astoria

659
00:40:22.360 --> 00:40:25.519
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