The testimony was alarming. “Both the Office of Inspector General and the Civilian Oversight Commission have active investigations into deputy gangs that are intended to help eradicate them, and we look forward to their findings.” During the trial, lawyers for the county repeatedly pointed out that Waldie bore the tattoo of another deputy group — the Gladiators — and painted …
April Tardy, then a chief in the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, testified in a public hearing in the Civilian Oversight Commission’s investigation of deputy gangs in July 2022. In an apparent shift from her sworn statements to the Civilian Oversight Commission last year, Undersheriff April Tardy testified during a civil trial Tuesday there was no confirmed work slowdown led …
A Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy associated with the gang-like group of deputies with matching tattoos from Compton station testified that he has attended about seven so-called inking parties since he first saw the image on a shirt more than a decade ago. Juarez said patrol deputies discuss who can get the tattoo, but he refused to call the process …
Protesters drive around the Compton Civic Center on Thursday to demand answers in the deputy killing of Gardena man Andres Guardado, 18. Adam Marangell, an attorney representing Vega in the Guardado shooting, said it would be a “disservice for all concerned” to comment on a pending investigation. “At the appropriate time, we hope all will realize Deputy Vega’s actions were …