7/3/2023 0 Comments Royal order of jesters ring![]() ![]() Glanz said at the time of the Jesters meeting, he did not know who had written the letter but that he distributed it because “it talks about a plaintiff’s lawyer that is paying for all this” grand jury process. Glanz said he learned who wrote the letter after he passed it out but declined to say who the author was. Glanz said he was made aware of the letter by a friend and that he obtained a copy of it and handed it out to fellow members of the Royal Order of Jesters at a recent meeting. This all goes to the same narrative: Bob Bates, friends and cronyism.” … It’s amazing that he is so detached from reality and they are part of this elitist club. “I am more concerned about him passing this information onto this group because he feels like they are influential. Lewis said he also had questions about the Royal Order of Jesters. I’m very surprised that an intelligent person who claims to be an attorney would write something like this.” “Actually, I thought it was laughable because it was written like a 2-year-old child. Lewis called the letter “extremely condescending” toward him and others in the community who gathered signatures for the grand jury. In a Frontier storylast month, several clergy leaders praised Lewis for his peaceful leadership of We The People while in several other cities, protests against police using deadly force turned violent. The letter refers to Marq Lewis, founder of We The People Oklahoma, as “just the front face” of the group and misspells his first name as Marc. His most recent lawsuit against Glanz is on behalf of Harris’ family. Smolen has filed numerous civil rights lawsuits against Glanz and the county alleging racial discrimination against black employees and medical neglect of jail prisoners. The letter claims that the grand jury process is “not about the ‘will of the people.’ It’s about a very small group of people being manipulated, brainwashed and used” by Tulsa attorney Daniel Smolen. “It’s not about Stanley Glanz who fired no shots that killed anyone but did fire 3 senior managers who were responsible for various policy violations. The undated letteris titled: “The reasons for the sheriff to resist impaneling a grand jury is to understand who and what’s behind it.” The 12-member grand jury - eight men and four women- begins meeting Monday at the Tulsa County Courthouse. Glanz waged an unsuccessful court battle against the grand jury, claiming the group had failed to follow state law in circulating its petition. We The People Oklahoma gathered more than 6,800 signatures to impanel a grand juryto investigate the shooting, Bates’ training and related issues in the Sheriff’s Office.Ī 2009 internal affairs investigationfound supervisors at the Sheriff’s Office pressured subordinates to falsify training records and approve Bates as an advanced reserve deputy. “If you live by the sword, you may die by the sword.”īates, 74, is a longtime friend and former campaign manager of Glanz. He was serving as a volunteer reserve deputy on an undercover drug unit when he fatally shot Harris after an illegal gun buy.īates, who said he mistook his gun for a Taser, has been charged with second-degree manslaughter and has pleaded not guilty. ![]() “It’s about a tragic, accidental shooting of Eric Harris during an undercover illegal gun buy,” the letter states. The letter states the grand jury petition by We The People Oklahoma is about “jackpot justice” following the shooting of Eric Harris by Robert Bates rather than reform of the Sheriff’s Office. Glanz circulated the letter in early July to members of the Royal Order of Jesters, a secretive, invitation-only social club affiliated with the Akdar Shrine. Simonson had earlier denied knowledge of the letter when asked by The Frontier. ![]() The two-page letter isn’t signed, but in a recent deposition, Glanz spokesman Terry Simonson acknowledged he wrote the letter and provided it to the sheriff, federal court records state. DYLAN GOFORTH/The FrontierĪ two-page anonymous letter - circulated by Sheriff Stanley Glanz to a shadowy subgroup of Freemasons - calls citizens who gathered signatures for a grand jury petition “a very small group of people being manipulated, brainwashed” by an attorney suing the sheriff. ![]() Marq Lewis claps during a media conference earlier this year. ![]()
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