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BMC representative Patrick James told RM he could neither start his own three-piece patch motorcycle club or an offshoot of an existing one.

This is your only chance

“What you do is you start off with a one-piece patch. You’re a riding club. Then, maybe after a couple of years you gain respect in the area and people get to know you. Then we move you up, we give you permission to have possibly a two-piece patch,” he is said to have told RM.

“If it seems right that you want to have a three-piece patch, you come to us and we’ll decide if you have enough time in. … What you’re doing is disrespecting all these other clubs that have worked their way up.”

Thinking he was following James’ instructions, RM proceeded weeks later to start a Nova Scotia chapter of the Montreal-based Brotherhood Motorcycle Club after receiving approval from that club for his members to wear one-piece Brotherhood patches on the backs of their vests.

“Mr. James was furious” after seeing pictures on Facebook, according to court records. James showed up at RM’s workplace and demanded he immediately destroy all vests with Brotherhood patches and that the Brotherhood post on its Facebook page that it was not starting a chapter in Nova Scotia.

“I’m giving you a get-out-of-jail-free card here,” James is said to have told RM, according to records.

“Do you understand what I’m f***ing saying to you? … This is your only chance.”

James pointed at pictures of RM’s family and told him to “get this taken care of.”