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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLASD has been 'permeated' by a violent deputy gang with matching tattoos called the 'executioners'
https://www.foxnews.com/us/lasd-has-been-permeated-by-a-violent-deputy-gang-with-matching-tattoos-called-the-executioners?fbclid=IwAR0hyT3OlUWK1vxMlFuA5fVs-kQgjaKJVe3WD4ohp1xDltGPe-thniJbbycA gang of sheriff's deputies called the "Executioners, has "permeated" a Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department patrol station and has engaged in civil rights abuses against the public, according to a claim filed with county officials last week.
Austreberto Gonzalez, a sheriff's deputy and a Marine Corps veteran, worked at the Compton patrol station for five years where the gang wielded outsized influence, according to the claim obtained by Fox News. He claims the members ink themselves with tattoos featuring Nazi imagery, a laughing skeleton and an AK-47. The gang celebrates deputy shootings and threatens work slowdowns when given unpreferred assignments, according to the claim.
"The gang controlled the scheduling, and therefore even having a sick child that needed nonstop medical care was secondary to making sure the gang members got their preferred shifts," Alan Romero, an attorney representing Gonzalez in his claim against the county, told Fox News in a statement. "This was a practice that punished all patrol Deputies that either refused to join the gang or otherwise resisted the gangs far-reaching influence at the Station."
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CaliforniaPeggy
(149,791 posts)The LA Times has been following this story too, and it gives me chills.
I'm not sure what should be, or can be done, but obviously this culture must be eradicated.
They are not serving the public.
Beaverhausen
(24,475 posts)... of two deputies. She wondered if this is payback for this rogue group of cops.
ProfessorGAC
(65,381 posts)...it was the rogue cops hitting a couple fellow cops who weren't cooperating and talking about filing a complaint.
Given the article, it doesn't seem impossible.
live love laugh
(13,204 posts)robbob
(3,540 posts)That represents a significant sea change from the tRump rough them up a little law and order mentality they usually support. Doesnt make them any more reliable, but its an interesting shift...
LAS14
(13,791 posts)WhiskeyGrinder
(22,512 posts)sarisataka
(18,895 posts)is 6 weeks old
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,512 posts)The LA Times did.
stillcool
(32,626 posts)here's something from 1991
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-10-12-me-107-story.html
By HECTOR TOBAR
OCT. 12, 1991 12 AM
TIMES STAFF WRITER
A federal judge has concluded that many Los Angeles County sheriffs deputies at the Lynwood station routinely violate civil rights, are motivated by racial hostility and use terrorist-type tactics with the knowledge of their superiors.
U. S. District Judge Terry J. Hatter Jr. issued the written finding this week in support of his Sept. 23 order that the Sheriffs Department abide by its own use-of-force policies. The order was temporarily blocked by the U. S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which will decide whether Hatter has the power to supersede Sheriff Sherman Blocks authority over the Lynwood station.
In unusually strong language, Hatter found that a neo-Nazi, white supremacist gang of deputies--the Vikings--exists at the Lynwood station with the knowledge of department officials. Policy makers in the department, Hatter said, tacitly authorize deputies unconstitutional behavior.
The judges findings are directly at odds with how department officials have characterized the Vikings, which they say is a harmless social group.
czarjak
(11,326 posts)XanaDUer2
(10,836 posts)Hal Holbrook.
Ferryboat
(926 posts)are they tied to the group of rogue cops?
tblue37
(65,528 posts)Hekate
(91,005 posts)duhneece
(4,125 posts)Hekate
(91,005 posts)sarisataka
(18,895 posts)Maybe they are part of the group but if they aren't, well FTP and ACAB so fire away?
Is the solution to the injustices done by police simply to start shooting cops?
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Mr.Bill
(24,365 posts)Or the shooter was working for the cops.
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tenderfoot
(8,438 posts)eom
oasis
(49,480 posts)JI7
(89,287 posts)hatrack
(59,602 posts)Remember the Zetas? They had been members of Mexico's special forces.
Then they figured out that they could make one hell of a lot more money working for the cartels, and then they became a cartel.
And, well, it's not like we don't have a lot of mercenaries and other Blackwater-style organizations sloshing around in the mix . . .
jmowreader
(50,589 posts)There's only one way to solve this: after Biden is elected and has gotten rid of the Trump sycophants in the US Marshals Service, call all the deputies into two high school gymnasiums (one for men and one for women) at the same time and have them remove their uniforms. Anyone who has the "Executioners" tattoo gets arrested for federal civil rights violations.