360 680 1107 | LASD 'Executioners': Compton mayor says deputies have 'terrorized the community for decades', August 5, 2020

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Mayor Brown's account came as city and community leaders called for a federal and state civil rights investigation into the Los Angeles County Sheriff Department's Compton patrol station.

The station's deputies have been in the spotlight since news surfaced last week of an alleged deputy gang with matching tattoos known as the "Executioners."

Deputy Art Gonzalez blew the whistle on the alleged gang of deputies in a newly filed government claim, the first step toward filing a lawsuit.

Deputy Gonzalez says that the "Executioner" deputies celebrate shootings of citizens with tattoo parties, set illegal arrest quotas and retaliated against him when he reported one alleged "Executioner" deputy for beating up a fellow deputy outside the patrol station earlier this year.

Compton city leaders say they will write to U.S. Attorney General William Barr and California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to request a civil rights investigation into the Compton patrol station.

They are also exploring options to terminate their contract with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. The city of Compton has a $22 million per year contract with the LASD to provide patrols and other law enforcement services.

"We demand justice from the Compton sheriffs and we will no longer continue to pay you $22 million to terrorize this community," said Mayor Brown, who takes issue with Sheriff Alex Villanueva's statement last week that "no gang of deputies is running any station right now."