Friday, March 29, 2019

226 322 407 502 1429 | After decades of problems, new allegations surface of a secret clique within L.A. County Sheriff's Department, July 10, 2018


For decades, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has struggled to combat secretive cliques of deputies who bonded over aggressive, often violent police work and branded themselves with matching tattoos.


Now, despite past attempts by sheriff’s officials to discourage internal cliques, fresh allegations have arisen of deputies in the department’s Compton station adorned with matching skull tattoos.

One deputy acknowledged in a recent deposition that he and 10 to 20 of his colleagues at the station had the tattoos but denied there was a formal clique.


Attorneys representing the family of a black man shot by deputies during a 2016 foot pursuit have used the existence of the tattoos to argue there is a clique tied to the killing, which they allege was racially motivated.

It’s unclear whether the tattoos signal a return of a secret deputy group that celebrates violence or something more benign. But some law enforcement experts said it’s important for the Sheriff’s Department to understand what’s going on and make sure the clique mind-set has not returned.

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“In addition to investigating the police shooting, the department should also look at the culture,” said Alex Busansky, a former prosecutor who served on a county commission that in 2012 found that the department’s tolerance of cliques contributed to excessive force in the jails. “A place where 20 police officers receive matching tattoos is a place where there is a mentality of us-versus-them, and that on its face is concerning.”

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Matching tattoos have long been part of a fraternity subculture in the Sheriff’s Department, dating at least to 1971 with the Little Devils at the East Los Angeles station.


Seven deputies were fired in 2013 after an investigation into the Jump Out Boys, a group of gang enforcement officers who were accused of glorifying shootings by deputies. Their signature tattoo was a skeleton holding a revolver. Whenever a deputy in the group was involved in a shooting, he would earn extra ink of smoke coming out of the gun.

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A federal judge called out the problem nearly 30 years ago, accusing deputies of running a "neo-Nazi, white supremacist gang" named the Vikings within the Lynwood station. Others followed with names such as the Regulators, Grim Reapers, Rattlesnakes and the Jump Out Boys. Inside the county’s central jail, the 2000 Boys and 3000 Boys ran roughshod over the lockup’s toughest floors.
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52 61 328 348 | Deputy reinstated by Sheriff Villanueva admitted to having tattoo linked to secret society, March 28, 2019


Investigators reviewing the case of Caren Carl Mandoyan, the Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy fired for misconduct only to be reinstated recently by Sheriff Alex Villanueva, learned that he was a member of a secret society of deputies known as the Reapers, according to documents reviewed by The Times.

A woman who accused Mandoyan of abuse told investigators she saw the group’s tattoo on Mandoyan’s inner left ankle: a Grim Reaper holding a scythe next to the name of his Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department station, branded with the number 98.

She said he warned her that because of his membership with the Reapers, he had influential friends who could ruin careers in the department.

Mandoyan has become the focus of an intense legal battle between the county Board of Supervisors and Villanueva, who recently reinstated Mandoyan two years after the deputy was fired in connection with the woman’s claims of domestic abuse, stalking and harassment.


The new details of Mandoyan’s Reaper tattoo have merged two of the Sheriff’s Department’s most heated controversies: Watchdogs and members of the county’s governing board have lambasted Villanueva over reinstating Mandoyan while heightening calls to root out the agency’s subculture of tattooed deputy cliques that have long been accused of severe hazing, fights and violence against the communities they serve.

Mandoyan admitted to having a Reaper tattoo associated with the South L.A. station, according to his July 14, 2016, internal affairs interview contained in 2,000 pages of documents that were released Wednesday by the county Civil Service Commission.

The revelation comes days after Villanueva was grilled by members of the Sheriff Civilian Oversight Commission over his handling of members of tattooed deputy groups who engage in misconduct.


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L.A. County Sheriff's Deputy Caren Carl Mandoyan

 
Sheriff Tim Murakami


L.A. County Sheriff Alex Villanueva

 
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 Villanueva told commissioners on Tuesday that he replaced the captain of the East Los Angeles station and transferred several others in response to an off-duty fight that broke out involving members of the Banditos deputy clique in September.

Sean Kennedy, a Loyola Law School professor and member of the oversight commission, said Mandoyan’s reported comments that being a Reaper made him influential suggest a link between deputy gang tattoos and threats of violence or other inappropriate conduct.

 But when commissioners pressed Villanueva about whether he is investigating tattoos and clique affiliation among members of his own command staff, he said it would be “entirely inappropriate” to do so because it’s a private matter.
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Wednesday, March 20, 2019

154 354 714 | Daphne murder masterminds will be charged when there is all the evidence - PM, March 20, 2019

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 Prime Minister Joseph Muscat on Wednesday morning insisted that the masterminds behind the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia will be charged once there is all the evidence in hand.

Dr Muscat took questions from journalists following the inauguration of a Crane Currency centre designed to showcase the company’s work to its clients.


Asked whether the police were close to charging the masterminds who ordered the car bomb that killed Ms Caruana Galizia following reports in November that the investigation was “at a very advanced stage”, Dr Muscat insisted that he would not comment on specific details. This, he said, “was of no good to anyone” and reiterated that the investigations needed to take their course.

“This is for the simple reason that to prosecute there has to be all the evidence in place and I do not think that it is in anyone’s interest to take action and then a year or two down the line, when the processes get underway, it emerges that there isn’t enough evidence against those being charged in court.

“I am not saying that there isn’t, I am just saying that we need to let the prosecutors do their work,” Dr Muscat insisted. He then went on to “appeal to the media” to not give criminals an advantage when they came to phrase certain issues.


The Sunday Times of Malta reported last month that the police needed to gather more “rock solid evidence” before interrogating and proceeding against other suspects believed to be closely connected with the journalist’s murder.

In November, sources had told The Sunday Times of Malta that the investigation into those behind the car bomb was at a “very advanced stage”. 


Here is a list of the previous coverage regarding the Daphne Caruana Galizia murder: 

https://ltvfye.blogspot.com/2019/03/341-460-caruana-galizia-family-rejects.html 
https://ltvfye.blogspot.com/2019/03/213-320-274-580-797-contested-witness.html  
https://ltvfye.blogspot.com/2018/10/367-disciplinary-action-against.html 
https://ltvfye.blogspot.com/2018/10/90-113-463-617-more-witnesses-testify.html
https://ltvfye.blogspot.com/2017/10/36-63-52-73-121-car-bomb-kills.html
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