Bartlesville Has Police and DHS Problems: LGBT Activism Costs Lives, Crushes Careers & Undermines Safety

Trans-Tyranny: Bartlesville - Part 4 - March 13, 2023

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In this segment of Trans-Tyranny: Bartlesville

• The Most Dangerous Police Officer in Bartlesville is OKEQ-Bartlesville Board Member: How Policies of LGBT Appeasement Cause Harm

• Through Both Child Welfare & Law Enforcement - Officer Pitts Involved in Multiple Fatal Cases

• Pitts Named in Lawsuit - Wrongful Death of an Infant: LGBT Foster Home Allowed to Continue Despite Repeated Reports of Abuse

  • Baby Xander Cage Bruntmyer Should Never Have Been Placed in the Nelson/Bedard Home

  • Did LGBT Activism Cost Baby Xander His Life?

• Another OKDHS Employee Leads Bartlesville’s Push for LGBT Fosters: Questions Linger About Conflicts of Interest in Foster Placement

• Police Involved Fatality: Family Sues After Son Shot by Officer Pitts

• Officer Pitts Placed on Leave: Accusation Against Fellow Officer Looks Like Lie

• OKEQ Orders Custom Police Report from Own Board Member/BPD Officer Jessica Pitts to Silence Opposition to Public Drag Shows

Previous segments in this series: Battle for Bartlesville; Rural America is the Target; Part 1 (Bartlesville's Anti-Bullying Judge Issues PPO For LGBT Bullies: Silences Opposition Despite Visible Conflict of Interest); Part 2 (Bartlesville Council Moves to Protect Public Spaces Despite OKEQ Lies and an Up-and-Coming City Attorney Who Needs Glasses); Part 3 (Ideological Infiltration Sets Stage for Smalltown Transformation: Brainwashing BHS).

All Oklahomans and Americans should take notice. It takes only a small group to turn a town’s community standards upside-down. Bartlesville, Oklahoma, is fighting a handful of sex activists from Oklahomans for Equality (OKEQ-Bartlesville) on a number of public issues, including their sponsorship of obscene performances in public. OKEQ’s positions are regularly outside of standing law.

2018: OKEQ Bartlesville pushes for open borders, encourages illegal immigrants to choose Bartlesville.

As this town is teaching us, once these individuals cross the line from heterosexuality to something else, or from their biological gender to some other fictitious state, this new descriptor appears to become everything… their total identity, their religion, their cause and their unrelenting desire to tear down the norms they’ve personally discarded. Increasingly, the goal is to force their newly invented belief system on everyone in the community, including children.

While we typically associate such groups with the Defund the Police movement, Bartlesville is proof that no public agency is off limits to infiltration, including law enforcement. After pressing for policies of appeasement within the hiring process, these actors, once inside, operate with impunity, ignoring protocols based upon law, putting activism before safety, and creating a wake of victims throughout the community, including children.

While this publication has no interest in targeting any individual, the actions of a single person in Bartlesville serve as a model of warning for all public, municipal agencies and communities that must be revealed.

The Most Dangerous Police Officer in Bartlesville is OKEQ-Bartlesville Board Member: How Policies of LGBT Appeasement Cause Harm

Meet Officer Jessica Pitts, as introduced by OKEQ-Bartlesville’s executive board president Morgan Lawrence-Hayes within a video posted by the group in September of 2020.

Lawrence-Hayes introduces Pitts as both a Bartlesville Police Department (BPD) officer and OKEQ-Bartlesville board member. Pitts then reads a statement of support for OKEQ-Bartlesville prepared by BPD chief Tracy Roles, our first evidence of a policy of LGBT appeasement at the BPD. It’s not good enough for Chief Roles to say BPD protects ALL citizens. He must officially single out sexual preference as a defining characteristic worthy of special recognition and protection. Given what the reader is about to learn, it’s likely Chief Roles is now regretting that policy.

Officer Pitts is more than just a board member, either current or past, of OKEQ-Bartlesville (unknown due to lacking public disclosure), the non-profit chapter of a Tulsa-based organization that sponsored the September 2022 pride event at the center of Bartlesville’s fight to ban adult-oriented performances from public spaces. Pitts is also a personal friend of OKEQ-Bartlesville leaders Morgan Lawrence-Hayes and her partner Sheena Hayes, as evidenced by her post of congratulations following their wedding ceremony.

As previously reported, Morgan Lawrence-Hayes stood before the city council and claimed the September event contained no adult-oriented entertainment, obscenity or sexually suggestive performances despite ample video evidence to the contrary. Even Facebook blocked an image from one such Bartlesville Pride performance as being too obscene for public viewing.

Examples of Officer Pitts’ personal relationship with the couple at the head of OKEQ-Bartlesville are publicly available.

OKEQ-Bartlesville vice pres. Sheena Hayes (far left), executive board president Morgan Lawrence-Hayes (front 2nd from left), and board member/BPD officer Jessica Pitts (back center).

While it is lawful for an officer to be involved in an organization outside of the police department, Officer Pitts’ eventual misuse of that connection, pattern of involvement in cases that have devastated local families and now alleged perjury related to allegations she made against a fellow officer are reflective of a concerning pattern from the OKEQ board member.

Through Both Child Welfare & Law Enforcement - Officer Pitts Involved in Multiple Fatal Cases

Jessica Pitts worked, among other roles, as an OKDHS Child Protective Services (CPS) investigator of reported abuse within Washington County. A source informs this publication that Pitts joined OKDHS after unsuccessfully attempting to join the police force. Pitts left OKDHS during the summer of 2017, immediately after the death of an infant in custody whose case she was associated with.

Pitts Named in Lawsuit - Wrongful Death of an Infant: LGBT Foster Home Allowed to Continue Despite Repeated Reports of Abuse

Xander Cage Bruntmyer was less than two months old when he died on June 17, 2017, in the custody of the State of Oklahoma and the care of Tracy Dawn Nelson and Anissa Marie Bedard, a lesbian, married, foster couple. Nelson was arrested in December of 2017 for the child’s death while out on $50,000 bail related to another felony child abuse case within Washington County, presided over by Judge Russell C. Vaclaw. Jessica Pitts was subpoenaed on both criminal cases as the involved OKDHS-CPS investigator.

Tracy Dawn Nelson, OKDHS foster parent convicted of murder of infant Xander Cage Bruntmyer.

The arrest of Nelson on the second case occurred on July 12, 2017, a month after baby Xander’s death, but is related to a serious incident of abuse prior to baby Xander’s placement in the home. Nelson broke a child’s arm and plead guilty within a plea deal. Nelson was not immediately arrested for that abuse, despite a DHS investigation by Jessica Pitts, and the foster home remained open to place baby Xander, which cost him his life.

Nelson was convicted of the first-degree murder of Xander Cage Bruntmyer (case also under Judge Russell C. Vaclaw) and sentenced in November of 2018 to life with parole.

A suit was brought by the family of the child, naming Jessica Pitts as a defendant, and revealing Nelson as having a documented history of abuse prior to baby Xander’s placement in the home.

Baby Xander Cage Bruntmyer Should Never Have Been Placed in the Nelson/Bedard Home

The civil suit alleges gross negligence by OKDHS and its representatives, including Jessica Pitts. Tracy Dawn Nelson and Anissa Marie Bedard became foster parents in 2014, the same year of their marriage, beginning a string of reports of the mistreatment and physical abuse of the children in their care as outlined within the wrongful death case. The lawsuit calls the decision to place then three-day-old Xander in the Nelson/Bedard foster home “conscience-shocking”.

Did LGBT Activism Cost Baby Xander His Life?

While case records within the OKDHS KIDS system are not available to the public or journalists, Jessica Pitts is named within defendant Anissa Bedard’s answer to the civil lawsuit brought on behalf of Xander Cage Bruntmyer, as filed with the court.

The suit states that OKDHS placed baby Xander in the Nelson/Bedard home even after another foster child’s arm was broken by one or more of the caregivers. In her explanation, Bedard identifies Jessica Pitts as the OKDHS investigator who responded to the child’s broken arm and ruled the abuse as “unsubstantiated”. Nelson later, in the wake of baby Xander’s death, plead guilty to previously causing the other child’s broken arm.

Bedard’s further explanations show a pattern of OKDHS identifying signs of abuse in the Nelson/Bedard foster home yet allowing them to continue providing care.

Bedard’s explanations attribute a daycare provider’s reports of child abuse to homophobic bias. Was OKDHS-CPS investigator Jessica Pitts of the same mindset? And then a baby in the care of that foster home died.

Bedard took the required foster parenting classes and signed the papers with spouse Nelson, assuming responsibility for the safety of the children placed in the home, but then legally declared herself unresponsible for the abuse that occurred.

The suit was moved to United States District Court, Northern District of Oklahoma (Tulsa), where it was determined that “OKDHS as an arm of the State of Oklahoma or that OKDHS is immune from suit under the Eleventh Amendment.” Richter v. Nelson, 4:20-cv-00167-CRK-CDL, 3-4 (N.D. Okla. Aug. 4, 2022)”. It appears there will be no true justice for baby Xander.

Did Pitts’ involvement with LGBT activism affect her judgement when determining if children were safe in LGBT foster homes? Is this why Nelson was not immediately arrested upon abusively breaking a child’s arm? This publication does not have access to answer those questions, and it is unknown how many cases of abuse Pitts or any other OKDHS representative responded to at the Nelson/Bedard foster home prior to baby Xander’s death. It is evident that Bartlesville has recently experienced an activist push for more LGBT foster parents.

Another OKDHS Employee Leads Bartlesville’s Push for LGBT Fosters: Questions Linger About Conflicts of Interest in Foster Placement

Comfort Keidel is another recent departure from OKDHS-Child Welfare who used simultaneous titles and positions, one within the government agency and one with a non-profit, to push the placement of state custody children within the homes of LGBT fosters, particularly in NE Oklahoma.

Comfort Keidel worked with OKDHS as “Foster Care Recruiter/CPS Investigator/Chair of the DEI Council/Podcaster” from 2015 until 2022. During her time with OKDHS, Keidel “co-created” and served as Executive Director of The Village Fosters, an “open, affirming and inclusive” non-profit supporting foster families. The Village Fosters originally operated out of Tulsa and the Yale Avenue (Disciplines of Christ) Church.

The Village Fosters also established a chapter in Bartlesville that actively recruited foster families at OKEQ-Bartlesville’s September 2022 pride event.

To review, Keidel, a foster/adoptive parent of ten years, created a non-profit promoting the recruitment and support of LGBT foster parents while she worked as a foster care recruiter for OKDHS. The conflicts of interest represented by Keidel’s multiple titles, including within the government agency responsible for the most vulnerable children in the state, are evident.

As with nearly everything this publication is finding about the cross-agency efforts of the sex activists in Bartlesville, there is a polished, public front and a much different demeanor behind the scenes. This is Comfort Keidel on a very intentional podcast in December of 2019, complete with yoga voice:

And here is Comfort Keidel, with a child in her care, addressing those focused on the protection of innocence outside of the 2022 Bartlesville Pride event:

The same source who provided the footage proving the performances at OKEQ’s recent Bartlesville pride event were indeed adult and sexual in nature also provided the above video showing Keidel addressing protesters outside the 2022 pride event. The reader will be left to determine how well things are going for OKDHS placed children in Bartlesville, and why these activists are anxious to silence those exposing their efforts.

Keidel is now working for the Tulsa branch of Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA), the group providing advocates for children within the child welfare system with the least support. These volunteers have unsupervised access to the children assigned to them by the court and are to represent the child’s best interest within the case. In 2019, a Tulsa CASA was arrested for the sexual abuse of four children he met through the program.

CASA should be hiring only discerning advocates for protecting the innocent, not sex activists.

Police Involved Fatality: Family Sues After Son Shot by Officer Pitts

Astoundingly, just two months after the death of baby Xander and immediately following her exit from employment with OKDHS, Jessica Pitts was hired by the Bartlesville Police Department. The same police department that investigated the abusive death of infant Xander Cage Bruntmyer at the hands of foster parent Tracy Dawn Nelson beginning in June of 2017, and arrested Tracy Dawn Nelson in July of 2017 for previous child abuse OKDHS-CPS investigator Jessica Pitts ruled as “unsubstantiated”, then hired Pitts as an officer in August of 2017.

And less than two years later, on June 1, 2019, Officer Pitts was involved in the fatal shooting of an unarmed man named Thomas Gay (35).

Authorities were less than transparent about the shooting, never releasing the full OSBI report or Bartlesville PD documents. The OSBI confirmed that a male and a female officer were involved, and the female officer had fired the initial shots. Then Washington County District Attorney Kevin Buchanan released only a statement, six weeks after the shooting, clearing the two, unnamed officers involved and suggesting that Gay possessed weapons or objects as weapons on the night of his death. Other police documents stated that no guns or knives were found on Thomas Gay’s person. According to reporting from The Frontier:

The BPD later and inadvertently revealed the names of the officers involved by returning a small, wooden, unstrung bow to the family in a box still marked with the names of the officers involved and the OSBI case number. It was thus confirmed that Pitts was the female officer who had fired the initial shots from a closet and the reference to a weapon was unjustifiable. In 2020, Thomas Gay’s family filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the city and both officers. The community is left to wonder if policies of appeasement in BPD’s hiring process are leaving them at risk of harm.

Officer Pitts Placed on Leave: Accusation Against Fellow Officer Looks Like Lie

Bartlesville officer James Graham (second from right) receiving Life Saving award from city council: Pictured, from left, Police Chief Tracy Roles, Capt. Jay Hastings, Officer Ben Hollander, Capt. Rocky Bevard, Cpl. Denver Millard, Cpl. James Graham and Sgt. Daniel Mains.

James Graham joined the Bartlesville Police Department in 2012 and rose to the rank of corporal. During his tenure and given his earned rank, Graham supervised a number of other officers, including as a field training officer, until a very specific two-week period beginning in late 2019. At some time in 2020, two female officers under his supervision separately accused Graham of touching their inner thigh.

One of the alleged incidents was reported to have taken place within a patrol car on December 30, 2019, as the female officer was responding to a call with Graham as passenger. The other allegedly occurred on January 15, 2020, as the second accuser searched a vehicle. Dash and body cam footage was not able to corroborate either incident. There was also an accusation of indecent exposure, though it was unclear at the time who made that accusation.

Did this officer who had served for eight years suddenly lose his mind and begin a pattern of sexually abusive behavior, identical in two descriptions from separate female officers? Was this perhaps a MeToo hit job by two female officers unhappy with their male supervisor? It appears that things were not working quickly enough for someone, as information made its way to city leadership who, in early May of 2020, put both the police chief Tracy Roles and deputy chief Rocky Bevard on paid administrative leave related to complaints by two police department employees.

During the course of Graham’s criminal trial and subsequent acquittal on all remaining charges, it was revealed that at least one of his accusers had provided false testimony. That accuser was Jessica Pitts, who is now on administrative leave from BPD pending an investigation.

City officials (through a recent statement below) and the local paper, the Bartlesville Examiner, have both publicly claimed that Graham admitted to some of the allegations against him, despite his recent acquittal by a jury of his peers. Graham continues to maintain that this is untrue and that he never admitted to any inappropriate action.

Officer Graham’s legal representative recently spoke with this publication, stressing that his client has been consistent in his statements and never admitted to any inappropriate, non-consensual, sexual contact with either female officer. The charge against Graham related to Pitts was dropped based upon the discrepancy between Officer Pitts’ testimony and the video evidence.

Evidence presented during the course of Graham’s trial confirmed communication between the two female officers, now known through trial proceedings to be Jessica Pitts and Sierra Compton. A PR interview between BPD Chief Roles and Officer Compton from two years ago hints at more policies of appeasement, as much of the interview focuses on Compton’s status as a “female” officer rather than her individual qualifications for the position or job performance.

In addition, the timing of the accusations is under scrutiny given Graham’s acquittal, as communications between the accusing officers may suggest Pitts had other motives for making her accusation. The officers are reported to have waited between eight and nine months, reporting the concerning incidents to BPD’s HR representative during the week Officer Pitts, as a three-year veteran of BPD, would be eligible for a promotion to corporal, Graham’s rank at the time. Communications also allegedly suggest that Pitt’s may have obtained a copy of the required Corporal Promotion Test prior to testing.

In addition, it has been reported that Officer Pitts has been removed from the Fraternal Order of Police for an alleged sharing of internal information. This publication has not been able to verify this allegation.

Following his acquittal, in an interview with Fox 23 News, James Graham stated, “The allegations that they made to me takes away from true victims and that alone they should be ashamed of.”

Graham is considering legal action, given the damage done to his reputation and his livelihood, but is no longer speaking directly with the media.

OKEQ Orders Custom Police Report from Own Board Member/BPD Officer Jessica Pitts to Silence Opposition to Public Drag Shows

With Officer Pitts history established, the exploration of her involvement in the community’s battle to enforce its standards of decency becomes necessary. Pitts worked the Bartlesville Pride event (September 2022) as a BPD officer on duty, along with a Lt. Morrow, which may partially explain why no arrests were made related to the obscene drag performances. At the least, BPD should be revisiting the conflict-of-interest policies that allowed an OKEQ-Bartlesville board member to work the controversial event and determine the legality of the drag performances.

Far more interesting, is how Pitts was allowed to provide the police report necessary for OKEQ to silence its most vocal opposition concerning public drag performances with a protective order. Pitts’ direct involvement with OKEQ-Bartlesville represents a clear conflict of interest, yet BPD allowed her to create and file the report which this publication has confirmed to contain significant inaccuracies.

The next installment of this series will explore that report and detail how it was used to threaten both the free speech and religious rights of an entire community. Previous reporting brought concerns to light about the Washington County Court system, judicial conflicts of interest and OKEQ infiltration:

There is much more to learn about the Washington County District Court and its pattern of redefining law to suit OKEQ’s needs. Stay tuned.