Detective alleges sexual hazing on LAPD’s Centurions football team

He was a former Pac-10 football player, one of the best recruits on the LAPD’s amateur team, the Centurions. But as he walked off the field at his first all-weekend practice, that veteran supervisor and others on the team began to yell: “Rookies to the locker room.” What followed, according to court documents, was an alleged hazing, a group sexual assault that the young linebacker said he didn’t dare report: Who would he tell, anyway? Morrison said his client is haunted daily, and that “he had guilt and shame and humiliation.” According to the legal claim, after the assault the rookie officer felt “like he was in a gang that he could not leave without putting himself in danger.” California Recent controversies test LAPD Chief Michel Moore in the final years of his tenure A string of recent controversies have put to a test LAPD Chief Michel Moore’s quest to get his department into shape before stepping down in the next year or two. “You one of us now,” one officer told him after pulling him to another area following the hazing, seeing his visible distress, according to the legal claim. “We took care of him; we take care of you.” Fearing retribution, the rookie officer said nothing at the time, according to the legal claim.