{"id":5815,"date":"2014-07-29T12:43:38","date_gmt":"2014-07-29T19:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=5815"},"modified":"2014-08-10T12:48:21","modified_gmt":"2014-08-10T19:48:21","slug":"no-more-ball-peen-hammers-no-more-batons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2014\/07\/29\/no-more-ball-peen-hammers-no-more-batons\/","title":{"rendered":"No More Ball-peen Hammers, No More Batons: BREAKING THE CODE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/entertainment\/ci_26227601\/former-hells-angel-and-cop-who-chased-him\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from Pioneer Press<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Former Hells Angel and cop who chased him share their unlikely friendship<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:Kbelcamino@pioneerpress.com?subject=TwinCities.com:\" target=\"_blank\">By Kristi Belcamino<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Former Hennepin County Sheriff&amp;#8217;s Captain Chris Omodt, left, collaborated with Pat Matter, former president of the Minneapolis Hells Angels, to write\" src=\"http:\/\/extras.mnginteractive.com\/live\/media\/site569\/2014\/0727\/20140727__140728BIKECOP.jpg\" alt=\"Former Hennepin County Sheriff&amp;#8217;s Captain Chris Omodt, left, collaborated with Pat Matter, former president of the Minneapolis Hells Angels, to write\" width=\"480\" height=\"auto\" border=\"0\" \/><em>Former Hennepin County Sheriff&#8217;s Captain Chris Omodt, left, collaborated with Pat Matter, former president of the Minneapolis Hells Angels, to write &#8220;Breaking the Code.&#8221; (Pioneer Press: Ginger Pinson)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Considered the &#8220;godfather&#8221; of the Minneapolis Hells Angels, Pat Matter knew three things in life were true:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When you love someone, you get hurt. &#8230; When you&#8217;re real, everyone hates you for it. And when you trust, you get killed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And yet, Matter found an unlikely man to trust: Chris Omodt &#8212; the Hennepin County cop who&#8217;d been after him for years.<\/p>\n<p>Two decades after the men first heard of each other, they&#8217;re telling the story of their unlikely alliance.<\/p>\n<p>Their co-written book, &#8220;Breaking the Code&#8221; (self-published and available Friday), tells the tale of how their lives intersected, giving a no-holds-barred glimpse into the world of biker gangs and the investigators who go after them.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/entertainment\/ci_26227601\/former-hells-angel-and-cop-who-chased-him\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at TwinCities.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Pioneer Press Former Hells Angel and cop who chased him share their unlikely friendship By Kristi Belcamino Former Hennepin County Sheriff&#8217;s Captain Chris Omodt, left, collaborated with Pat Matter, former president of the Minneapolis Hells Angels, to write &#8220;Breaking the Code.&#8221; (Pioneer Press: Ginger Pinson) Considered the &#8220;godfather&#8221; of the Minneapolis Hells Angels, Pat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}