tion classes.” Midnight Highway-
man grew up around Brawley and learned of the Xtreme Justice League from a newspaper. He’d been watching the group from afar for a year or two before hopping into his French highway robber’s coat to join the fight. “There’s already a high-
wayman here in San Diego who drives around and helps stranded motorists, so I became the Midnight Highwayman. I have a really strong anger against injustice. People who are out there stealing from people and beating people up, it absolutely infuriates me. I had a pretty normal upbringing. I got in fights and had stuff stolen from me, but nothing really sticks out as a defining moment. The world is just on a downward slide, and at some point you have to
ics are five or six minutes away and we can be there on scene with a full first aid kit. One time, a guy was going to bleed out. He had punched a window. His arm was torn open from his hand to his elbow. He was out in a parking lot and nobody was paying attention. I don’t know if that guy made it. He was in bad shape, but we were there first.” Back in the Gaslamp,
The patrol circles up on the corner of Park and Broadway
stand up and do some- thing about it.” The oldest in the group,
Midnight Highwayman drives the support vehicle, patrolling outlying parking lots and maintaining radio communication with the foot patrol. He is equipped with water, blankets, snack bars, first aid gear, hefty Maglites, binoculars, and
a dash cam. “My days of jumping in the middle of the fight are behind me,” says Midnight Highway- man, who has a back- ground in security and first aid. “I’m a little long in the tooth to be out tack- ling people, but I can patch up the wounded. There’s not a whole lot of medi- cal response Downtown.
They have medic scooters. They’re really good, really fast, but they can only be in one place at once. So having us moving around makes a difference. Many times we’ve saved a life because they were either going to bleed out or die of an overdose. No one else was paying attention or had the training. Paramed-
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bars are coming to a close and the League tightens their radius to circle the nightclub district. Pass- ersby howl and toss up high fives. A woman pukes in a garbage can. Bob still doesn’t know what hotel his friends are in, so the League keeps him in the ranks, marching and drinking water to sober up. “I have no idea where
I’m going,” he reiterates. “So that’s my issue.”
At Fourth and Broad-
way, we round a corner and there’s Mr. Xtreme leaning against a brick wall, an overhead light casting long shadows like a private eye film. After some deliberation, the group agrees the thing to do is #getbobhome2016, as it has come to light that his friends are lodging in Hotel Circle. So Bob and Mr. Xtreme disappear down Broadway and the rest of the League goes out for another lap. By now, Gaslamp is shuddering with idiotic delirium. A few bike cops nod as we enter the fray. “Xtreme Justice League,” one of them greets. Security guards in
reflective jackets eject howling patrons from bars. A man is arrested in the middle of the street, and The Grim remarks that he saw the same guy
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