![]() Prosecutors sought to depict David Martinez as the embodiment of the battle between the Mongols Motorcycle Club and the federal government. In the Deputy District Attorney’s presentation, this wasn’t just a case of a police officer being killed in the line of duty this was an assassination committed as part of a gang’s war on law enforcement. Our research into th e events leading to the raid on David Martinez’s home offered us valuable context for what drove the prosecution’s strategy in pursuing this case. We came to understand that this trial was part of a much larger story, one that informed how Deputy District Attorneys - on behalf of the People of California - framed their entire argument. But as my Crime Story colleagues and I watched the case unspool, we realized that our binary paradigm was eroding. The good guys had fought the bad guys and the bad had left a bloody mark. This tragedy fit the silent film that plays on the wall of the American subconscious. The case was one of the first that Crime Story covered and at the outset it appeared simple: a coldblooded gang member had killed a cop. It was the summer of 2019, and David Martinez was on trial for the murder of Pomona Police Officer Sean Diamond. ![]() On today’s podcast we present, in its entirety, Mongol, our exclusive new Crime Story series written and read by Molly Miller that tells the story of the tragic killing of a police officer and the complex search for truth and justice in the aftermath of his death. As of this republication, David Martinez remains incarcerated, pending retrial. This is a reprise presentation of our original post on November 13 of last year.
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