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Recruits are reportedly chosen for the gang based on their propensity for violence against members of the community. The tattoos are allegedly awarded for killing a civilian, and given out at parties. “The Executioners have the symbol, the Jump Out Boys have the symbol, and several other people have the symbol, which is a skeleton, a symbol of death.” The Executioner tattoos of Deputies Aldama and Orrego (Source: Court documents obtained by Knock LA) Sweeney says that an expert tattoo artist testified the design appears to come from a stencil. The skeleton holds a rifle marked with the Roman numeral for 28, surrounded by flames. Members each have a tattoo of a skeleton wearing a Nazi helmet emblazoned with the letters CPT. WitnessLA reports that the Executioners were founded by former 2000 Boy Andy Toone, who appears to no longer be working at the Compton Station. Since at least 2016, a gang of deputy sheriff’s called the Executioners have prowled the streets of the City of Compton. They are notorious for these gangs popping up, and they are notorious for violating citizens’ civil rights.” Especially in the South command district that is Compton Station, the Century Station, South LA Station, and the East LA Station. “There has been an uptick just in the last 15 years of these police shootings. John Sweeney, a civil rights attorney who has been practicing in the Los Angeles area for 40 years, says that the Department has continued to get worse. Although the names have changed, these groups all participate in the systematic terrorization of the communities they are sworn to serve and protect.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has embraced deputy gang culture for the past 50 years. Despite requests, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department did not provide comment to Knock LA for the series. whose members have engaged in a 'pattern of criminal gang activity'. has, as one of its primary activities, the commission of one of a long list of California criminal offenses, and 3. has a common name or identifying sign or symbol, 2.

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Under section 186.22 of the California Penal Code a criminal gang is described as any organization or group of three (3) or more people that 1. Litigation related to these cases has cost the County just over $100 million over the past 30 years. Los Angeles County keeps a list of lawsuits related to the deputy gangs. At least four of them had a mental illness. Deputy gangs have killed at least 19 people, all of whom were men of color. And yet, there have not been any internal investigations or significant policy changes to address the issue. Officials at various government agencies, including the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, the Los Angeles County District Attorney, the California Senate Senate Subcommittee on Police Officer Conduct, and the United States Commission on Civil Rights have heard testimony on the violence inflicted on communities at the hands of deputy gangs for decades. There are at least 18 gangs within the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. Please exercise self-care and check in with yourself before choosing to read.

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Part of A Tradition of Violence, an extensive investigation into more than five decades of abuse, terror, and murder carried out by gangs within the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.Ĭontent Warning: This series explicitly details acts of violence (including murder) carried out by law enforcement officials.