Benoit Roberge : Walk the Line - the fifth estate 

I've been a biker my entire life, I'm in my sixties now and ride purely for pleasure. I lived in Oakland California in the 1960s and became a member of the Gypsy Jokers. From what I saw while I was in that club, it was mostly about riding and running speed throughout the Oakland and San Francisco area. Speed was our coffee and we used to use it and ride 4 hours on end. I never saw any of the hardcore crimes, but when one of the sergeants was tasked with killing a rival biker and was bragging about it, I had had enough. I moved out of the area and left no forwarding address, and left it at that. The sergeant was eventually and charged with murder. Then the charges were changed to justifiable homicide and he was set free. I don't know about anybody else, but I immediately knew that somebody on the Oakland homicide unit was in the pocket of the Joker's. It didn't surprise me at all because I knew that there were cops on the payroll of the Joker's for years.

“The line between good and evil runs through every human heart”

Whether you’re a corrupt cop or a gang member, it’s all about power, greed and a lack of conscience. No concept of common decency or thought for the people who just want a safe environment for their loved ones. Thugs and criminals, although, given the choice, I’d rather be imprisoned as a gang member than a crooked cop.

Where there's greed, there's corruption.

A lot of cops are as bad as anybody else. A friend in Detroit said he left the police force because he was more scared of the cops than anything on the street. If only bike clubs could all just live and let live.

That guy has zero right to talk about illegal or immoral. Wako situation was both illegal and immoral.

I love that they have the expert therapist, who handled the hostage negotiations at the Branch Davidian Compound in Waco. Maybe you keep that boondoggle off your resume.

I LOVE THIS CHANNEL!!! Thank you for all the great uploads!

He walked out on the most corrupt gang on the planet,and joined the Hells Angels.

Excellent program. Thanks for posting and keep up the great work!

There's no hard moral decision about refusing a free cup of coffee when the coffee looks like it's laced with drain unplogger

I always look forward to get a notification from the fifth estate, Guaranteed a good & interesting little docu. 👍👍

I wonder if they'll ever admit that there's a possibility that these cops weren't plants in the hell's angels, but were hell's angels plants in the police force. Probably not though cause how embarrassing would that be?

DISRESPECT IS THE LEAST OF THE SICKNESS

Dude pledges his life and love for the biker gang at his own wedding. I bet his wife was real freaking thrilled over that one.

The Waco Texas standoff isn’t something this “negotiator should be bragging about!

Sometimes the difference between a good man and a bad one is just that: The good man is tempted, but resists; the bad man is tempted and yields. Temptation is in both of them. The place of darkness in all our hearts.

Lmao at the therapist! I do t think I would hire any person bragging about being on the front line at Waco in negotiations. They had no control and it even became one of the worst incidents in US history. Not something to brag about or even want on your resume and then have it brought up in a documentary that states your an expert in the negotiating field. I say your credibility goes out the window with that one.

"they are not the economic elite, but rather the criminal elite" Same thing. Nobody can kill more than governments acting on behalf of business interests.

"Get the Hell's out of here." He pledged his heart to the gang on his wedding day. Red flag. One of many.

That poor INNOCENT little boy! 😠😭💙💔

the cop is now out on parole he only got 7 years

I was a patch holder for awhile in a so-called outlaw club. there are good and bad in every club doesn't matter if its a 1% club or a Christian club. at Daytona bike week a few yrs ago a club member of a Christian club flying his colors asked me right out if I needed any weed. he was on the sidewalk sellin his weed with a Christian symbol on his back and his club name. but then we watched 2 different 1%ers going at it with fists so don't come down on all 1% club members. ive seen them pay the bills and house off of widows that had no money. seen them buy them cars etc. and these are 60 -70 yr old ladies.ive been pulled over and told how much it would cost me to ride away without a ticket or arrest. and ive had cops give me a left to a gas station or down the road to help me get going again. so there is good and bad in every thing law enforcement or outlaw clubs.

Here in the UK we don't have a big problem with bikers. Most bikers are nice people to get on with, the ones who like motorbikes and enjoy riding are the real bikers as far as I'm concerned. Hells Angels have a bad reputation and are known to be involved in illegal activities/crime especially in countries like USA/Canada where there is a big gang culture.

Hey Fifth Estate! I really appreciate all the hard work on this program! It's really good. Instead of lots of hype, there's strait-up good storytelling! I usually just leave a thing going and listen while I work...but this I end up watching all of it!👍

The 'good' cop says only the "law" matters not "morality". There's the underlying problem and why so many people don't like cops.

Don't the Montreal Police have a reputation for corruption? This was made over 6 years ago but look at the last 18 months of the police all across Canada and their heavy-handedness during the pandemic.

The negotiator guy thinks he is good, yet every action they cited that he did, was arguably pure evil. But don't accept a coffee from a bad guy, right?

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This cop did bad things for a long time, yet this show never really condemns him. It rationalizes his conduct. It excuses his behaviour by returning to the it's so tough to be a cop argument. The justice system furthers the rationalization: let him serve a couple of years in minimum security. Even the cop himself rationalizes his behaviour at his parole hearing. He says he worked with these cases too long, creating a moral grey area, as if to say, it's tough being a cop, y'know. There is no such thing as hard hitting journalism in Canada, when the preferred members of society do bad things.

How to learn to think and act like a criminal,put yourself in a desperate situation and see how long it takes until your a ''criminal''.What a joke, it s just people .

Difference between a Cop and a Biker: You can't buy a Biker.

It must take massive balls of steel to be an undercover dude.

There was a biker gang member that lived a couple of doors down from me when I was a teenager(in the '70's). I babysat for them all the time. There was one time they had a party and someone backed into my mothers car when they left. She went to him and he made sure that the person who did it, fixed it. He respected his neighbors the way anyone else would.

When I managed a liquor store I had a whole bunch of fully patched members as regulars, honest to god my nicest customers I ever had🤷‍♂️

Corrupt Montreal Cops? That's... surprising.......

They flipped Benoit to snitch on the cops lmao I love it

I like the part where they take a 20 minute story and stretch it out for 45 minutes.

I came to watch commercials, noticed there was a documentary interrupting them.

Illegal but not immoral is a justification to cross a line, whether one is a police officer or not.

As a law abiding citizen, i am far more uneasy with the police behind me than a few bikers, club members.

I love how the underlying assumption running through the whole piece from beginning to end is that the cops were always good cops even when they were being corrupt. They were corrupted by the evil bikers. They are portrayed as victims who's carriers were ruined because they ran into these terrible bikers.

It has always amazed me how citizens do not demand change with the policing models. The culture of any organization will corrupt the best intended. Both organizations have an us vs them mentality. The members know a diff model is required.

@ 6:48, the Canadian policeman says, 'Our job is to protect people'. Well, that's not technically true. Their public 'duty' by law is to uphold statutes, write infraction traffic citations and apprehend law-breakers. Whatever protection they provide is incidental, by arresting those who disturb the peace by commission of statute crime, which in some few limited cases means apprehending those who make violent threats. But of course, since the neoliberal laize fair/reactionary era of Reagan/Thatcher and the War on Drugs, police have increasingly been corrupted by the enormous profits of drugs and collusion with organized crime gangs, selling info and influence, engaging in sideline extortion and running their own protection rackets.

Wow at his wedding instead of pledging allegiance to his wife he basically read his vals to the gang lol poor girl

Retired just before being arrested. Which I'm sure that means he gets to keep his lifetime pension. Almost like he knew it was coming.

I don't know what that hostage interrogator cop is talking about --there is definitely a difference between whats legal and whats moral. To be fair though that guy does look like he would arrest a starving person for stealing bread, a little kid for jaywalking or a teenager with a roach.

Being a cop means you gotta judge everyone and hold yourself so high up you can never, ever let loose or down, down, down you go! No thanks. I'll just be me

Cop was protecting the club. Why he told on him is beyond me.

Dr. Webster is incorrect in asserting that 'bad police officers are not born, they are made'.....I have studied the socio economic backgrounds of law enforcement and bikers, and the shared, sub culture valued traits, characteristics, and motives. Bikers and cops are a lot closer than one thinks....

The line between good and bad...crosses the heart...So true ! Dixit: Alexander Soljenitsin .

Things can be Moral and Illegal, just like how Slavery was Legal and Immoral. My wife's a lawyer and we've discussed this concept in law, and while its not the job of the police to interpret the Law they are given discretion for that reason.

As much as I like watching this channel having 10-12 ad breaks is rediculous! Kinda greedy don't you think?

Everyone knows the cops work with the mob on Montreal.. The head of the rock machine was a COP LOL

Great show👍😎

Corruption is only one reason cops cross the line. Anyone can be blackmailed or threatened into that. What would we do if family and friends were at risk or secrets twisted to ruin us? Not everyone on the organized crime payroll wants to be there.

Sorry but I'm not gonna take "morality" lessons from a cop at Waco.

Personally if a gangster kills another and no innocent person gets hurt then don't waste tax money to solve it...just let it be ..

His wedding vows was directed at the club and not the wife. That's pretty funny.

Everyday I wish my dad never met them my life would of been normal 😕

Money money money everybody loves money that's the problem where u find lots of money you will fine corruption

Looked like a cool documentary but refuse to watch something on RU-vid that has 40 midroll ads!

the beginning with a coffee is a psychology unto itself extending into a butterfly effect

Nice doc. I thought I've seen every outlaw biker documentary there was. Guess there's always one ya miss

He spent only 27 months in prison - that's all - then he was released.

Very good reportage. Well done Fifth Estate!

A short documentary about two rival gangs fighting each other

They never considered that the outlaw bikers might be good at their jobs as well. So it's not really surprising that they got Roberge to supply them with information.

I like how it says Walk the Line will return and then it returns.

I worked with an RCMP officer that had infiltrated the Hells. I watched videos of insane amounts of drugs he had recorded. The videos were crazy asf.

Not gonna lie, French is pretty much the least intimidating language ever created 😂

I love love love Mark Kelly. He's handsome and a brilliant journalist. He's my idol

I have lost a lot of respect for police. There is no grey area for police eh? Then why is it that the police here do what is deemed unlawful in America? In fact they spend millions to do it. That is the complete fabrication of criminal acts perpetraed by themselves to ensnare whomever they target. Just recently I read of these convictions involving a cocaine import which ultimately snagged 2 HA members and another. However, there was no actual crime other than that which was created by the RCMP who posed as Colombian cartel men. So, while police botch, mishandle and claim a lack of manpower for real cases involving peoples lives such as missing persons and other serious incidents, they waste millions in resources to make up a crime then entrap(this is what makes these illegal in the US) whomever they have targetted. All perfectly legal. They get to create a cocaine importation conspiracy, target civilians then bust said civilians but ,obviously, nothing happens tto them, they are "law enforcement". Just like what they did to those 2 welfare clients to get a terrorism conviction. Thankfully they happened to get a judge who saw through the cops BS but how many others have been targeted and convicted based on crimes that never existed? The police can and do simply manufacture any type of crime they want in order to arrest people and I think this is insane in any free and democratic society. This is an example of a police state.

Excuse me....Organized Crime is called Government son..

Not one informant works one way. Every cop / agent that works with informants give them as well info.

This is the most slept on RU-vid channel by Americans.

Superb quality in writing (Kelly) , videos and production (many guys). Has this been offered to U.S. law enforcement? TV networks? There's a need for it.

Fifth estate is the best in my opinion. No frills

Bottom-line, the Hells Angels have never trampled on my Constitutional Rights, whereas, the police have violated my Fourth Amendment right and thrown me in jail for exercising my Second Amendment right. So, who do you think I regard as my real enemy?

what is the music at 16;56

I love that protest by the people. That example needs to be copied.

1:08 Maybe. But some, or many, are born with a certain predisposition.

Not sure where or how far reaching it was, but there was a time when the Hells Angels were trying to create a new reputation, making a real effort to be good citizens, going as far as catching criminals and doing good deeds!?! I wonder what happened?!!?

Of course they used hockey bags for cash it’s Canada

To me....if your undercover.....your going to HAVE to use drugs and break the law.

"Nobody on your police force saw this coming?" What a stupid question smh….

What is the music?

The Moral Of This Story Is Never Throw Someone Under The Bus. That You Can Get Thrown Under The Same Bus.😎

Unlike the police,,bike clubs don’t target innocent folks.

The guy served barely over 2 years total of an eight year sentence and was paroled. Corruption - right to the top

Any updates on this story?

Difference between the therapist and the rogue cop is one tried hiding their true thoughts. Standing the “moral high ground” after being the negotiator in Waco…. LoooooL

The wako standoff was a complete disaster so I wouldn’t brag about that on my resume lol

The "bad" in this world help provide the "good" their jobs and means for a living. It's a paradox.

Vraiment intéressant, merci!

Slippery slope to say the least. The higher profile criminals are by design unpenetrable unless you've proven to someone in the organization that you're a legit criminal. Bikers or Mafia set up their hierarchy to insolate themselves from associates. You gotta either become one of them like Donny Brasco or somehow convince someone in the inner circle to flip for you. Either way you're gonna be looking the other way as you develop your info.

Hell's vs R.M meant one thing. Great Blow. 'specially in Verdun. Those were the days

in ontario they would have suspended him with pay.

If drugs where legal, none of this BS would be necessary ..

He was not born corrupt but he became corrupt by some type of lust that was able to trap him.