November 16, 2022 • 35 mins
Deputy gang members have risen to the top of the department. Employees are told to 'work in the grey', and killings become frequent.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Morning. This podcast contains explicit language in details acts of violence.
Listener discretion is advised. Paul Tanaka, who was a tattooed
member of the neo Nazi deputy gang the Vikings, went
on to be one of the most powerful people in
the Los Angeles County Sheriff's department. Tanaka has denied involvement
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with the gang. His ascension solidified the influence of deputy
gangs on department culture, and it all happened on a fluke.
Sheriff Peter Pichas's successor, Sheriff Sherman Block, served as the
sheriff of Los Angeles County for sixteen years. Block was
the first deputy in the department to work his way
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through every rank to the top. During his tenure, he
became the highest paid elected official in the United States.
In nineteen ninety eight, Block was running for l A
County sheriff for the fifth time. He was the front
runner and expected to win easily. Then the unexpected happen.
Sherman Block died at USC University Hospital after undergoing surgery
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for the removal of a blood clot just days before
the election. Blocksmantee Chief Deputy Lee Baca was also running
for the position. Bacca wasn't doing well in the polls,
but following election day, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department
found itself with a new leader, someone who was considered
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to be very friendly to deputy gang members. This is
a tradition of violence, a history of deputy gangs inside
the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. As the newly minted
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share of Bocca, who had been overseeing the Lennox station,
used his power to promote a then lieutenant to an aid.
It appeared that one of the most important and powerful
people in the County of Los Angeles was somebody that
nobody had ever heard of, and that was then under
Sheriff Paul Tanaka, who was pretty much a shadow sheriff
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running the place. That's the Less Freeman, founder of Witness
l A and an award winning journalist who has covered
deputy gangs. His background is in accounting in addition to
law enforcement. The first time that he came on my
radar was seeing where he was at Carson as a
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young deputy, and his partner in his patrol car was
Cecil Rambo, who remained as his sort of best friend
in the department, and he is lieutenant not in the
sense of rank, but his buddy who would do what
he asked him to do. Until Tanaka left the department
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earlier this year, Cecil Rambo, who has also been accused
of being a deputy gang member, ran for sheriff on
a platform of eradicating deputy gangs. In an interview with
me last year, Rambo told me he continued to support
Tanaka despite knowing he was a deputy gang member. Sheriff
Lee Bacca promoted Tanaka to under sheriff in second in
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command of the entire department. Paul always kept the bad
news away from Lee. Paul was good at it. He
was good at being the man behind the curtain. He
was seen as a leader to some and a noted
cancer for others. I'd have people in the department who
would come up to me and say, I never used
this word, but he's evil. After Tanaka's promotion, he implored
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deputies to quote work in the gray area or operate
outside the con finds of the law. Paul to Naka,
who would come and lecture at stations, saying things like
you've got to work the gray meaning you've got to
be willing to go over that line of legality to
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be an aggressive law enforcement officer. That also meant attacking
deputies who did not go along with a criminal style
of policing. Sergeant Mark Moffatt, who was Asian and Native American,
was repeatedly subjected to racial slurs and harassment after being
assigned to a gang investigations unit based out of the
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Century Station. Many Vikings moved into the new Century Station
when it replaced the Linwood Station in the late nineteen nineties.
One of Moffatt's tormentors was Sergeant Timothy Cooper. According to
witness l A. Cooper has quote double inc meaning he
is a tattooed member of two deputy gangs, the Vikings,
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for which his tattoo has the number, and the Regulators,
for which his tattoo is numbered eleven. Cooper is allegedly
one of the founders of the Regulators, a second generation
of the Vikings. The gang unit that Moffatt was assigned
to was made up of people who came from the
Century Station. Moffatt was from Lakewood. He said Cooper taunted
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him for not being a quote real deputy. Here's his
attorney Bradley Gauge. When I handled the case, the idea
of deputy gangs was just being explored, so it was
difficult to believe. The claim that there were deputies with
matching tattoos and numbers was something that was scoffed at.
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If I had them off itt case today, I'd have
a lot more evidence to support what he was saying.
Back then. What happens on these cases is that someone
reports wrongdoing and then they get retaliated against. The general
claim is that there was a group of deputies in
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a gang or a click, and that he then was
being targeted by them. Cooper and Moffatt's tensions continued until
they reached a boiling point. One day in two thousand
and nine, Cooper pointed a gun to Moffatt's head. He
pulled a gun on another sergeant, threatened to shoot him,
and virtually nothing happened to this guy who did that.
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This happened inside the Compton station. Cooper mouths quote, I'm
going to kill you as he did this. Moffatt reported Cooper,
and the case moved to the Sheriff's Department's Discipline Committee,
headed by Paul Tanaka Lee Baca. At some point, gave
him control of internal affairs and I C. I B,
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which is the criminal side of investigations in the Sheriff's department.
We send up a bunch of flags because that suggested
that based on his past and a lot of things
he'd said, that meant that a lot of people who
needed to be held appropriately to account for wrongdoing would
not be to Naka recommended a demotion for Cooper, but
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the committee opted for an even more lenient punishment, a
fifteen days suspension. When you have folks who are in
charge of investigating actions that are alleged to be by
members of a group that they're in, the result is foregone.
The conclusion is foregone. Moffatt filed a lawsuit with the
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Los Angeles Superior Court and eventually settled in two thousand
nine for over eighty seven thousand dollars, all funded by taxpayers.
It's unclear if Cooper was ever disciplined. By the early
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two thousand's, gang culture was normalized within the Los Angeles
County Sheriff's Department. Angel him Is, a self admitted regulator,
sued the department when he felt the gang was being
discriminated against. Arnaldo Casias angel Heims. His attorney told us
that he went from prosecuting cops to being friends with
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them him as his resume looks a lot like other
deputy gang members. He was investigated by the Internal Affairs
Bureau in June for a firefight he shot and killed
a man named Gustavo Roman. On January two thousand one.
He told the Los Angeles Times that the gang was
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quote like the all stars of a baseball team. You
get the best. He elaborated in court documents, describing gang
as a group of deputies who quote are very confident
in their abilities as deputies, those who know how to
do their job well, those who do the job to
ensure that they become an asset to the Sheriff's department,
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not a liability. Hims would not tell the paper how
many deputies were in the regulators, but said he was
the sixty third person to join by two thousand five.
The gang's membership wasn't limited to the Century station. They
were throughout the department. In a deposition, him Is indicated
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that similar quote social groups were present at every shaff
station in l A County. The l A Times also
reported that anonymous letters allegedly written by deputies outside of
the gang accused regulators of extorting money from other deputies
and heavily influencing shift scheduling and administration at Century Station.
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Members of the regulators claimed that the money went of
deputies in need, but denied pressuring fellow l a s
D members to contribute. Him has said that he received
performance reviews until a new sergeant, Arthur Scott, was assigned
to the Century Station in October of two thousand. Him
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Is alleges that Scott referred to Hims as the head
of the quote Mexican mafia within the station. Him as attorney,
later said that the regulators were singled out and likened
to the Mexican mafia because of Latino stereotypes. On June
two thousand four, the station's captain held a meeting to
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discuss the issue with Hyams and Scott. Hims was transferred
two weeks afterwards, and he was written up for insubordination.
Hims filed a lawsuit against LA County. After a trial,
a jury found in him's favor, and he was awarded
one point one million dollars funded by taxpayers. That doesn't
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include attorney's fews, which taxpayers are also on the hook
for for both sides. Heimas appears to have retired on
disability in seventeen and receives over one hundred and ten
thousand dollars in pension annually, which yes, taxpayers also pay for.
Heim's case seemingly caused a fisher within the Vikings. Some
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older Vikings appeared to dislike the regulators, while others lent
their support to the younger gang. Here' ce less Freeman,
the deputy gangs don't have to threaten you physically. They
can do ruinous things in terms of character assassination that
can ruin someone's career. Catherine Brown Voyer joined the l
a s D In nineteen eight seven, starting her career
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at Lynwood Station. She was named as an associate of
the Vikings in the civil class action suit filed by
Carol Watson and the lawyers at the Police Misconduct Lawyer's
Referral Service. In Brown Voyer was part of a boat
straid on the home of a Latina family of seven.
Several of the members of the family were beaten with
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batons and flashlights. By two thousand three, she was promoted
to lieutenant and as signs of the Century Station but
her career advancement stopped when she became an advocate for
regulator Angel Hymns. In June of two thousand four, a
captain asked brown Voyer if she heard him is called
Sergeant Scott a quote piece of ship during a briefing.
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She says that when she told him she didn't, she
was given a fifteen days suspension. When she complained, she
was transferred from her position and denied an assignment to
the homicide Bureau. Brown Voyer also claims she was investigated
and suspended for failing to respond to a deputy involved
traffic collision. While she was out of town. She filed
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a lawsuit against l A County for sexual harassment, discrimination,
and retaliation. In two thousand four, two captain testified that
brown Voyer damaged her reputation by backing Hymens. Captain Joaquin
had On set in a deposition. After brown Voyer filed
her lawsuit against l A County, she was not recommended
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for promotion to captain. The case was settled in two
thousand ten for seven hundred and ninety thousand dollars, paid
for with taxpayer money. Brown Voyer also sued l A
County with another lieutenant who testified for Hymens, who also
claims he was passed over for promotion. After providing testimony
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during the Baka and Tanaka administration, several l A s
D employees came forward to report racism and other forms
of discrimination. A retired commander, Joaquin had On testified in
a deposition that the prior under sheriff that Paul Tanaka replaced,
Larry Waldy, called him and another employee by a racial slur.
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He stated that Sheriff Lee Bacca would pass over his
Spanic deputies for advancement in favor of white captains who
falsified documents. He also said that Sheriff Lee Baca told
a racist joke at the Hispanic American Police Command Officers
Association meeting in the nineteen nineties. Paul Tanaka stated in
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a deposition that he heard Bocca say quote, Mexicans shouldn't
be put in charge of things. Bocca is Mexican American.
Sheriff Alex vien Aueva says the department racism affected him too.
He sued the department in two thousand five for racial
discrimination when he was passed over for a promotion. Multiple
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times in the process, stating that a black woman that
did get the job was quote lesser qualified. During litigation,
vienn Auevas said that Commander Ronnie Williams gave a speech
to department employees about l A. S D Using quotas
in the promotional process with preference given to white males.
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Vien Aueva's case was settled for seventy thousand taxpayer dollars.
Age is um was also a factor. Patrick Maxwell, who
was white and over forty, and Sam Dacis, who was
black and was then the oldest captain over forty, served
as captains and say they were constantly passed up for
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promotion and hounded about when they would retire. Ronnie Williams
said in a deposition that Lee Bacca referred to people
over seventy as quote dead. Joaquin had On also testified
that quote there was a list of all individuals in
the rank of captain or above. That list was referred
to as the quote hit list or quote death list
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because it listed the dates that an employee reached age
fifty five in each sixty. Bacca looked at the hit
list to decide whether or not to promote a person
from captain to Commander, Tanaka made a reference to the
hit list in a deposition himself, acknowledging its existence and
saying that there was no reason for it to exist.
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Maxwell found himself increasingly at odds with Tanaka, who did
not approve of Maxwell's reports of misconduct on fellow personnel.
He seemed to have a lot of peculiar prejudices. I mean,
his biggest prejudices to me seemed to be that anyone
who didn't support him and commit to him unquestionably was
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worthless and dead to him. In two thousand ten, Maxwell
complained to his station lieutenant about Tanaka. He alleged that
Tanaka was soliciting contributions to his campaign for mayor of
Guardina from department employees. In order to get promoted, you
pretty much had to give money to his political campaigns.
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Some donors to Tanaka's political campaign even got a personal
challenge coin from the mayoral hopeful. Challenge coins are small
medallions often exchanged by law enforcement members. They can honor
a person, commemory and event, and confirm membership to a group.
The select few with Tanaka's challenge coins were invited to
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participate in his exclusive cigar smoking club on a patio
at department headquarters. The expression was you're either in his
car or you're not in his car, in which case
you don't matter and you have nothing coming would would
be Chanaka's phrase. A commander said in a deposition that
a scared looking Maxwell told him he had to write
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a check for at least two hundred dollars to Tanaka's
campaign as to not quote get onto Naka's bad side
or seemed disloyal. Tanaka eventually got wind of Maxwell's complaints
and allegedly told a department chief that Maxwell was quote
fucking dead to him and could expect consequences. Then resources
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to Maxwell's unit were cut off. According to a lieutenant,
the department forced Maxwell to see a psychologist, which is
inconsistent with department policy. He eventually settled his case against
the department for one hundred and forty thousand dollars, all
funded by taxpayers. According to l A s D records,
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Century Station consistently had the highest number of shootings of
any station between leven, nearly double the number of incidents
at the second most violent L A s D station.
Patrick Maxwell testified that under Sheriff Paul Tanaka came to
speak at the station and encouraged deputies to work in
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the gray area. Tanaka said he would be quote checking
on them and would retaliate against any investigation of misconduct
by deputies. Tanaka also stated that having forty five internal
investigators was quote forty four to fucking many. According to
two commanders, he was very against over disciplined by internal affairs.
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Nineteen year old William Lusk was driving a Mitsubishi SUV
through the Willow Brick neighborhood of Los Angeles County. His friend,
who was under eighteen at the time, was in the
passenger seat. The Sheriff's Department claims that William's friend admitted
to stealing the car. Walter Wabi was the attorney for
William's mom. Virginia was his mother. He lived on and
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off with her when this incident occurred. William he had
a history of some drug use and he had a
prior criminal record. He had a ongoing confrontation with Oscar
Barrios on and off. They knew who he was because
he hung out on the streets and they had confronted
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him on other occasions trying to catch him selling drugs.
Being drunk, stolen good something. They would patrol the area
and William and his friends be hanging out on the street,
and that's what happened. On this particular day. William and
one or two of his friends were hanging out on
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the corner. Of that day, Oscar Barrios and his partner
came up harassed them to some degree. I wanted to
arrest him for drinking, but they weren't, gave him a
warning and left. Later that day, William and one of
the individuals that was there on the corner with them,
we're driving a stolen vehicle. They didn't steal it. Deputies
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Oscar Barrios and Antonio Garcia spotted the car, ran plates
and chased it into a col de Sac at One
and Robin Streets. Barrios and Garcia claimed that William pointed
a gun at them, but no gun was ever recovered.
His friend said he had no knowledge of a gun
being present. When the car reached the end of the street,
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both people jumped out. The deputies followed William into the
driveway of an apartment complex. Barrios had his gun out
and pointed it around as he searched for William. He
found him crouching under a tree. They had William pinned
down between fences. He was in about a two ft
three ft white gap between fences of two apartment buildings,
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and they had him pinned down in this gap between
the fence and Oscar Barrios admitted that he was behind
a tree that was large enough that gave him protection.
He claims that he told him to come out with
his hands up, and in response, William put his hand
in his belt and he thought was reaching for a gun.
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Oscar Barrios shot him nine times. He couldn't go anywhere,
so even if he was guilty of everything else, he
still didn't deserve to die. Barrios shot William several times.
Once William was down, Brios fired at him again. William
died at the scene. They did in a thorough search
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of the area where they alleged it happened, and they
never found a gun. Jason Zabela, a tattooed member of
the Regulators, is responsible for the deaths of at least
two people and cost the county four million dollars, according
to investigations from the l A District Attorney's office. His
tattoo is of a skeleton wearing a star shaped badge
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and a cowboy hat and holding a pistol. It's next
to a tombstone displaying the Century Station logo, which is
a diamond shaped crest with Nordic appearing letters spelling out
C E N. The Roman numeral for one is below.
He says he was the one and forty person to
get the design. On October eleven, Zabola ran a red
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light at the intersection of Long Beach Boulevard and Euclid
in Lynnwood, California, and drove into a woman in her car.
The impact gave her long term damage to her spine
and even required a fusion surgery. She sued the county,
who fought her hard. Attorneys even said the surgery wasn't necessary.
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The case eventually settled for eighty thousand dollars before trial,
paid for by taxpayers. Zabola continued to work on patrol,
and it's not clear if he was ever disciplined. The
following June, Deputy Norma Silva shot and killed unarmed twenty
seven year old Kenneth Rivera in Lynnwood. Documents from the
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Los Angeles District Attorney's Office suggest he was in the
midst of a ment health episode, possibly made worse by drugs.
A young girl allegedly witnessed Rivera grabbed a teenager sitting
nearby and promptly run away. A bystander called, who put
out a dispatch for a potential kidnapping. Silva drove past Rivera,
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made a U turn, and stopped just past where he
stood in front of the La Sista motel. Several witnesses
testified at trial that Rivera approached Silva with his hands up,
saying I'm the one you're looking for. She fired three
shots as he turned away, severing one of his vertebrae.
Rivera collapsed on the ground and bled profusely. His family
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alleges he was denied medical attention. He died shortly after
the shooting. Attorney Mark Pakowitz represented Rivera's family in a
civil lawsuit. I interviewed him about the shooting. In her
story was that he went at her, dove into her,
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laid on top of her, across the council in the
patrol car. Her head was on supposedly a lunchbox that
she had on the passenger seat that he was reaching
for her gun. I say, well, where's this lunch box?
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Because like wouldn't her hair be in anything on that
lunch box to prove that she was actually laying on
the lunch box? And they go, the lunch box isn't
part of the car? I know it's not in the pictures.
Where is it? Well we left her take the lunch box? Well,
why there was a shooting in the car? Was there
blood on it before you let her take it? Where
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their hair on it? Was there? Prince? Was there anything? Like?
You guys know better? You have to know better. That's
where you start to go. Why The Rivera families lawsuit
accuses several l a s D members of participating in
a cover up of the shooting by seizing and destroying
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video camera footage. Part of their job, as it's described
to them, is to protect the department. The bottom line
is I view a lot of civil rights cases this way.
There is the deputy who made the decision, whatever that
decision was, But then there's the people who follow up
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and deal with the investigation of that decision. And I
probably have more patience for the poor decision that was
made in a very short period of time than I
have for the countless decisions that get made during what
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should be a systematic gathering of facts that then determine
whether something was done right or wrong. Part of the
concern that people should have is why when I believe
nine civilian witnesses walked into a federal courtroom and testified
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they saw him outside the vehicle when the shots went out,
the Sheriff's department concluded that they were all wrong. The
case settled for one and a half million dollars during trial,
which was funded by taxpayers. The county also paid for
attorney's fees on both sides. In May, deputies Oscar Barrios
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and Jason Zabola were working together that month they stopped
forty nine year old Terry Lafitte as he rode his
bicycle through the Florence Firestone area. Barrios and Zabola said
they initiated the stop because they did not see a
safety light on Terry's bike. They followed him to his
house and chased him into his backyard. His sisters, nieces,
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and nephews were inside the house at the time and
came outside when they heard the commotion. Lafitte's nephew testified
he saw the deputies tackle his uncle to a prone
position on the ground without saying a word to Terry.
Terry's sister, who was pregnant at the time, came outside
and began filming. One of the deputies kicked her in
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the stomach and told her he would quote blow her
fucking face off. Terry's nephew said that the deputies forced
him to the ground at gunpoint and one beat him.
The other placed Terry in a headlock. The two deputies
began to beat Terry with their flashlights, then shot him
execution style in the back of the head. Terry left
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behind three daughters. Here's Walter Wabi, who represented the family
of the first man, Oscar Barrios killed. Oscar Barrios, I
remember I thought he had a problem. I thought he
had an ego problem with the badge. In my opinion,
he should have been let go from the force after that.
You should have been let go after the Lusk shooting.
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That's what happens when the police don't police themselves. They
let a bad apple stay on the street and it
happens again. Several other deputies immediately arrived at the home
and confiscated the witness cell phones. Neighbors told family members
the deputies hung around in the backyard with Terry's body
laughing after the shooting. Barrios and Zabola claim that Terry
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had a gun, but Zabola said in his deposition he
never saw a weapon. A gun was recovered at the scene,
but it tested negative for Terry's DNA. The testing did find, however,
that at least two other individuals handled the gun. Those
individuals were never identified. After the incident, Terry's sister said
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in a press conference quote, I want revenge from my
brother's death. There will be no justice in Los Angeles
until my brother's murderers go to prison. I want them
jailed for killing my brother and brutalizing my family. But
that didn't happen. The Lafitte family settled the case for
one and a half million dollars before it went to trial. Taxpayers,
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of course, paid for that, but Barrios and Zabola were
never charged, and it does not appear they were ever disciplined.
Even worse, Zabola went on to kill another person in
front of their family. Twenty eight year old Johnny Martinez
moved in with his parents into their Florence Firestone area
home shortly after being diagnosed with schizophrenia. Here's Martinez family
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attorney Ryan Casey, Johnny was for the most part in
good spirits. His parents loved him deeply. He's very close
with his mother. Given his mental illness, he would have
episodes and could be difficult, so that was why sometimes
officers have been called. And Johnny was a big boy,
but he loved his parents. He was very affectionate. When
he wasn't having uh you know, an issue or an episode,
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sometimes he would think and get paranoid that people were
coming after him. Johnny also had a daughter living out
of state with her mother. He got along well with
his neighbors, but did get into a verbal argument with
one on October four, two thousand fourteen. Casey told me
in that Johnny was eating right before the argument started.
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As things got tense, Johnny bear hugged his neighbor, cutting
his face with a fork in the process. The man's
thirteen year old son called one and was connected to
several dispatchers who incorrectly reported the man as being stabbed.
The last dispatcher the boy spoke to called Johnny quote
slow when the kid tried to correct her and tell
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her Johnny was calmly sitting on the porch with his
parents The dispatcher also told the child to approach deputies
and clarify dispatch mistakes himself. Attorney Ryan Casey says that
when Deputy Jason Zabola and four others arrived, they ignored
neighbors who tried to explain what was happening. Johnny remained
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seated on his parents steps as the deputies approached. He
had a small stake knife in his hands and laid
it on the ground when asked. Even though Johnny complied,
the deputies stated that they shot a taser at him,
then pepper spray. Next, all four shot at him, firing
at least thirty six times. One of the bullets also
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struck Johnny's neighbor standing nearby. Johnny died on the steps
in front of his family and neighbors. The deputies who
shot Johnny were found to have acted in self defense
and no charges were filed. Zabola was promoted, ironically, to
a gang detective unit, Operation Safe Streets. The Martinez family
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and the family of the neighbor who was shot filed
civil suits against l A County and were awarded two
and a half million dollars and two million dollars, respectively,
paid for by taxpayers. It was very interesting because they
were very very resistance on letting us get into any
of the evidence regarding tattoos, regarding gang affiliation. We had
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to file many motions to compel production of that information
with the court because they were instructing their clients not
to answer. And it was only once the judges granted
and provided us access to get this information. And we're
gearing up I believe for another deposition of the deputy
that we're focused here on deputy as a ball when
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the case actually resolved. So I don't know if there
was anything that they didn't want to come out or
didn't want to be dug deeper on, but the case
did resolve. The further we dug into those areas, members
of the regulators were beginning to move up in the department.
They now had security power and nothing stopping them. The
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time had come for the regulators to train the latest
set of recruits fresh out of the academy in a
place where no one would be looking. The jails that's
coming up next week. I used to alone did the
whole hood moment. Fuck the police, I'm a fucking trophy.
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Morning. This podcast contains explicit language in details acts of violence.
Listener discretion is advised. Paul Tanaka, who was a tattooed
member of the neo Nazi deputy gang the Vikings, went
on to be one of the most powerful people in
the Los Angeles County Sheriff's department. Tanaka has denied involvement
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with the gang. His ascension solidified the influence of deputy
gangs on department culture, and it all happened on a fluke.
Sheriff Peter Pichas's successor, Sheriff Sherman Block, served as the
sheriff of Los Angeles County for sixteen years. Block was
the first deputy in the department to work his way
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through every rank to the top. During his tenure, he
became the highest paid elected official in the United States.
In nineteen ninety eight, Block was running for l A
County sheriff for the fifth time. He was the front
runner and expected to win easily. Then the unexpected happen.
Sherman Block died at USC University Hospital after undergoing surgery
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for the removal of a blood clot just days before
the election. Blocksmantee Chief Deputy Lee Baca was also running
for the position. Bacca wasn't doing well in the polls,
but following election day, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department
found itself with a new leader, someone who was considered
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to be very friendly to deputy gang members. This is
a tradition of violence, a history of deputy gangs inside
the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. As the newly minted
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share of Bocca, who had been overseeing the Lennox station,
used his power to promote a then lieutenant to an aid.
It appeared that one of the most important and powerful
people in the County of Los Angeles was somebody that
nobody had ever heard of, and that was then under
Sheriff Paul Tanaka, who was pretty much a shadow sheriff
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running the place. That's the Less Freeman, founder of Witness
l A and an award winning journalist who has covered
deputy gangs. His background is in accounting in addition to
law enforcement. The first time that he came on my
radar was seeing where he was at Carson as a
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young deputy, and his partner in his patrol car was
Cecil Rambo, who remained as his sort of best friend
in the department, and he is lieutenant not in the
sense of rank, but his buddy who would do what
he asked him to do. Until Tanaka left the department
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earlier this year, Cecil Rambo, who has also been accused
of being a deputy gang member, ran for sheriff on
a platform of eradicating deputy gangs. In an interview with
me last year, Rambo told me he continued to support
Tanaka despite knowing he was a deputy gang member. Sheriff
Lee Bacca promoted Tanaka to under sheriff in second in
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command of the entire department. Paul always kept the bad
news away from Lee. Paul was good at it. He
was good at being the man behind the curtain. He
was seen as a leader to some and a noted
cancer for others. I'd have people in the department who
would come up to me and say, I never used
this word, but he's evil. After Tanaka's promotion, he implored
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deputies to quote work in the gray area or operate
outside the con finds of the law. Paul to Naka,
who would come and lecture at stations, saying things like
you've got to work the gray meaning you've got to
be willing to go over that line of legality to
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be an aggressive law enforcement officer. That also meant attacking
deputies who did not go along with a criminal style
of policing. Sergeant Mark Moffatt, who was Asian and Native American,
was repeatedly subjected to racial slurs and harassment after being
assigned to a gang investigations unit based out of the
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Century Station. Many Vikings moved into the new Century Station
when it replaced the Linwood Station in the late nineteen nineties.
One of Moffatt's tormentors was Sergeant Timothy Cooper. According to
witness l A. Cooper has quote double inc meaning he
is a tattooed member of two deputy gangs, the Vikings,
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for which his tattoo has the number, and the Regulators,
for which his tattoo is numbered eleven. Cooper is allegedly
one of the founders of the Regulators, a second generation
of the Vikings. The gang unit that Moffatt was assigned
to was made up of people who came from the
Century Station. Moffatt was from Lakewood. He said Cooper taunted
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him for not being a quote real deputy. Here's his
attorney Bradley Gauge. When I handled the case, the idea
of deputy gangs was just being explored, so it was
difficult to believe. The claim that there were deputies with
matching tattoos and numbers was something that was scoffed at.
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If I had them off itt case today, I'd have
a lot more evidence to support what he was saying.
Back then. What happens on these cases is that someone
reports wrongdoing and then they get retaliated against. The general
claim is that there was a group of deputies in
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a gang or a click, and that he then was
being targeted by them. Cooper and Moffatt's tensions continued until
they reached a boiling point. One day in two thousand
and nine, Cooper pointed a gun to Moffatt's head. He
pulled a gun on another sergeant, threatened to shoot him,
and virtually nothing happened to this guy who did that.
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This happened inside the Compton station. Cooper mouths quote, I'm
going to kill you as he did this. Moffatt reported Cooper,
and the case moved to the Sheriff's Department's Discipline Committee,
headed by Paul Tanaka Lee Baca. At some point, gave
him control of internal affairs and I C. I B,
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which is the criminal side of investigations in the Sheriff's department.
We send up a bunch of flags because that suggested
that based on his past and a lot of things
he'd said, that meant that a lot of people who
needed to be held appropriately to account for wrongdoing would
not be to Naka recommended a demotion for Cooper, but
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the committee opted for an even more lenient punishment, a
fifteen days suspension. When you have folks who are in
charge of investigating actions that are alleged to be by
members of a group that they're in, the result is foregone.
The conclusion is foregone. Moffatt filed a lawsuit with the
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Los Angeles Superior Court and eventually settled in two thousand
nine for over eighty seven thousand dollars, all funded by taxpayers.
It's unclear if Cooper was ever disciplined. By the early
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two thousand's, gang culture was normalized within the Los Angeles
County Sheriff's Department. Angel him Is, a self admitted regulator,
sued the department when he felt the gang was being
discriminated against. Arnaldo Casias angel Heims. His attorney told us
that he went from prosecuting cops to being friends with
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them him as his resume looks a lot like other
deputy gang members. He was investigated by the Internal Affairs
Bureau in June for a firefight he shot and killed
a man named Gustavo Roman. On January two thousand one.
He told the Los Angeles Times that the gang was
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quote like the all stars of a baseball team. You
get the best. He elaborated in court documents, describing gang
as a group of deputies who quote are very confident
in their abilities as deputies, those who know how to
do their job well, those who do the job to
ensure that they become an asset to the Sheriff's department,
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not a liability. Hims would not tell the paper how
many deputies were in the regulators, but said he was
the sixty third person to join by two thousand five.
The gang's membership wasn't limited to the Century station. They
were throughout the department. In a deposition, him Is indicated
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that similar quote social groups were present at every shaff
station in l A County. The l A Times also
reported that anonymous letters allegedly written by deputies outside of
the gang accused regulators of extorting money from other deputies
and heavily influencing shift scheduling and administration at Century Station.
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Members of the regulators claimed that the money went of
deputies in need, but denied pressuring fellow l a s
D members to contribute. Him has said that he received
performance reviews until a new sergeant, Arthur Scott, was assigned
to the Century Station in October of two thousand. Him
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Is alleges that Scott referred to Hims as the head
of the quote Mexican mafia within the station. Him as attorney,
later said that the regulators were singled out and likened
to the Mexican mafia because of Latino stereotypes. On June
two thousand four, the station's captain held a meeting to
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discuss the issue with Hyams and Scott. Hims was transferred
two weeks afterwards, and he was written up for insubordination.
Hims filed a lawsuit against LA County. After a trial,
a jury found in him's favor, and he was awarded
one point one million dollars funded by taxpayers. That doesn't
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include attorney's fews, which taxpayers are also on the hook
for for both sides. Heimas appears to have retired on
disability in seventeen and receives over one hundred and ten
thousand dollars in pension annually, which yes, taxpayers also pay for.
Heim's case seemingly caused a fisher within the Vikings. Some
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older Vikings appeared to dislike the regulators, while others lent
their support to the younger gang. Here' ce less Freeman,
the deputy gangs don't have to threaten you physically. They
can do ruinous things in terms of character assassination that
can ruin someone's career. Catherine Brown Voyer joined the l
a s D In nineteen eight seven, starting her career
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at Lynwood Station. She was named as an associate of
the Vikings in the civil class action suit filed by
Carol Watson and the lawyers at the Police Misconduct Lawyer's
Referral Service. In Brown Voyer was part of a boat
straid on the home of a Latina family of seven.
Several of the members of the family were beaten with
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batons and flashlights. By two thousand three, she was promoted
to lieutenant and as signs of the Century Station but
her career advancement stopped when she became an advocate for
regulator Angel Hymns. In June of two thousand four, a
captain asked brown Voyer if she heard him is called
Sergeant Scott a quote piece of ship during a briefing.
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She says that when she told him she didn't, she
was given a fifteen days suspension. When she complained, she
was transferred from her position and denied an assignment to
the homicide Bureau. Brown Voyer also claims she was investigated
and suspended for failing to respond to a deputy involved
traffic collision. While she was out of town. She filed
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a lawsuit against l A County for sexual harassment, discrimination,
and retaliation. In two thousand four, two captain testified that
brown Voyer damaged her reputation by backing Hymens. Captain Joaquin
had On set in a deposition. After brown Voyer filed
her lawsuit against l A County, she was not recommended
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for promotion to captain. The case was settled in two
thousand ten for seven hundred and ninety thousand dollars, paid
for with taxpayer money. Brown Voyer also sued l A
County with another lieutenant who testified for Hymens, who also
claims he was passed over for promotion. After providing testimony
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during the Baka and Tanaka administration, several l A s
D employees came forward to report racism and other forms
of discrimination. A retired commander, Joaquin had On testified in
a deposition that the prior under sheriff that Paul Tanaka replaced,
Larry Waldy, called him and another employee by a racial slur.
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He stated that Sheriff Lee Bacca would pass over his
Spanic deputies for advancement in favor of white captains who
falsified documents. He also said that Sheriff Lee Baca told
a racist joke at the Hispanic American Police Command Officers
Association meeting in the nineteen nineties. Paul Tanaka stated in
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a deposition that he heard Bocca say quote, Mexicans shouldn't
be put in charge of things. Bocca is Mexican American.
Sheriff Alex vien Aueva says the department racism affected him too.
He sued the department in two thousand five for racial
discrimination when he was passed over for a promotion. Multiple
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times in the process, stating that a black woman that
did get the job was quote lesser qualified. During litigation,
vienn Auevas said that Commander Ronnie Williams gave a speech
to department employees about l A. S D Using quotas
in the promotional process with preference given to white males.
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Vien Aueva's case was settled for seventy thousand taxpayer dollars.
Age is um was also a factor. Patrick Maxwell, who
was white and over forty, and Sam Dacis, who was
black and was then the oldest captain over forty, served
as captains and say they were constantly passed up for
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promotion and hounded about when they would retire. Ronnie Williams
said in a deposition that Lee Bacca referred to people
over seventy as quote dead. Joaquin had On also testified
that quote there was a list of all individuals in
the rank of captain or above. That list was referred
to as the quote hit list or quote death list
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because it listed the dates that an employee reached age
fifty five in each sixty. Bacca looked at the hit
list to decide whether or not to promote a person
from captain to Commander, Tanaka made a reference to the
hit list in a deposition himself, acknowledging its existence and
saying that there was no reason for it to exist.
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Maxwell found himself increasingly at odds with Tanaka, who did
not approve of Maxwell's reports of misconduct on fellow personnel.
He seemed to have a lot of peculiar prejudices. I mean,
his biggest prejudices to me seemed to be that anyone
who didn't support him and commit to him unquestionably was
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worthless and dead to him. In two thousand ten, Maxwell
complained to his station lieutenant about Tanaka. He alleged that
Tanaka was soliciting contributions to his campaign for mayor of
Guardina from department employees. In order to get promoted, you
pretty much had to give money to his political campaigns.
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Some donors to Tanaka's political campaign even got a personal
challenge coin from the mayoral hopeful. Challenge coins are small
medallions often exchanged by law enforcement members. They can honor
a person, commemory and event, and confirm membership to a group.
The select few with Tanaka's challenge coins were invited to
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participate in his exclusive cigar smoking club on a patio
at department headquarters. The expression was you're either in his
car or you're not in his car, in which case
you don't matter and you have nothing coming would would
be Chanaka's phrase. A commander said in a deposition that
a scared looking Maxwell told him he had to write
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a check for at least two hundred dollars to Tanaka's
campaign as to not quote get onto Naka's bad side
or seemed disloyal. Tanaka eventually got wind of Maxwell's complaints
and allegedly told a department chief that Maxwell was quote
fucking dead to him and could expect consequences. Then resources
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to Maxwell's unit were cut off. According to a lieutenant,
the department forced Maxwell to see a psychologist, which is
inconsistent with department policy. He eventually settled his case against
the department for one hundred and forty thousand dollars, all
funded by taxpayers. According to l A s D records,
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Century Station consistently had the highest number of shootings of
any station between leven, nearly double the number of incidents
at the second most violent L A s D station.
Patrick Maxwell testified that under Sheriff Paul Tanaka came to
speak at the station and encouraged deputies to work in
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the gray area. Tanaka said he would be quote checking
on them and would retaliate against any investigation of misconduct
by deputies. Tanaka also stated that having forty five internal
investigators was quote forty four to fucking many. According to
two commanders, he was very against over disciplined by internal affairs.
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Nineteen year old William Lusk was driving a Mitsubishi SUV
through the Willow Brick neighborhood of Los Angeles County. His friend,
who was under eighteen at the time, was in the
passenger seat. The Sheriff's Department claims that William's friend admitted
to stealing the car. Walter Wabi was the attorney for
William's mom. Virginia was his mother. He lived on and
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off with her when this incident occurred. William he had
a history of some drug use and he had a
prior criminal record. He had a ongoing confrontation with Oscar
Barrios on and off. They knew who he was because
he hung out on the streets and they had confronted
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him on other occasions trying to catch him selling drugs.
Being drunk, stolen good something. They would patrol the area
and William and his friends be hanging out on the street,
and that's what happened. On this particular day. William and
one or two of his friends were hanging out on
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the corner. Of that day, Oscar Barrios and his partner
came up harassed them to some degree. I wanted to
arrest him for drinking, but they weren't, gave him a
warning and left. Later that day, William and one of
the individuals that was there on the corner with them,
we're driving a stolen vehicle. They didn't steal it. Deputies
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Oscar Barrios and Antonio Garcia spotted the car, ran plates
and chased it into a col de Sac at One
and Robin Streets. Barrios and Garcia claimed that William pointed
a gun at them, but no gun was ever recovered.
His friend said he had no knowledge of a gun
being present. When the car reached the end of the street,
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both people jumped out. The deputies followed William into the
driveway of an apartment complex. Barrios had his gun out
and pointed it around as he searched for William. He
found him crouching under a tree. They had William pinned
down between fences. He was in about a two ft
three ft white gap between fences of two apartment buildings,
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and they had him pinned down in this gap between
the fence and Oscar Barrios admitted that he was behind
a tree that was large enough that gave him protection.
He claims that he told him to come out with
his hands up, and in response, William put his hand
in his belt and he thought was reaching for a gun.
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Oscar Barrios shot him nine times. He couldn't go anywhere,
so even if he was guilty of everything else, he
still didn't deserve to die. Barrios shot William several times.
Once William was down, Brios fired at him again. William
died at the scene. They did in a thorough search
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of the area where they alleged it happened, and they
never found a gun. Jason Zabela, a tattooed member of
the Regulators, is responsible for the deaths of at least
two people and cost the county four million dollars, according
to investigations from the l A District Attorney's office. His
tattoo is of a skeleton wearing a star shaped badge
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and a cowboy hat and holding a pistol. It's next
to a tombstone displaying the Century Station logo, which is
a diamond shaped crest with Nordic appearing letters spelling out
C E N. The Roman numeral for one is below.
He says he was the one and forty person to
get the design. On October eleven, Zabola ran a red
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light at the intersection of Long Beach Boulevard and Euclid
in Lynnwood, California, and drove into a woman in her car.
The impact gave her long term damage to her spine
and even required a fusion surgery. She sued the county,
who fought her hard. Attorneys even said the surgery wasn't necessary.
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The case eventually settled for eighty thousand dollars before trial,
paid for by taxpayers. Zabola continued to work on patrol,
and it's not clear if he was ever disciplined. The
following June, Deputy Norma Silva shot and killed unarmed twenty
seven year old Kenneth Rivera in Lynnwood. Documents from the
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Los Angeles District Attorney's Office suggest he was in the
midst of a ment health episode, possibly made worse by drugs.
A young girl allegedly witnessed Rivera grabbed a teenager sitting
nearby and promptly run away. A bystander called, who put
out a dispatch for a potential kidnapping. Silva drove past Rivera,
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made a U turn, and stopped just past where he
stood in front of the La Sista motel. Several witnesses
testified at trial that Rivera approached Silva with his hands up,
saying I'm the one you're looking for. She fired three
shots as he turned away, severing one of his vertebrae.
Rivera collapsed on the ground and bled profusely. His family
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alleges he was denied medical attention. He died shortly after
the shooting. Attorney Mark Pakowitz represented Rivera's family in a
civil lawsuit. I interviewed him about the shooting. In her
story was that he went at her, dove into her,
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laid on top of her, across the council in the
patrol car. Her head was on supposedly a lunchbox that
she had on the passenger seat that he was reaching
for her gun. I say, well, where's this lunch box?
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Because like wouldn't her hair be in anything on that
lunch box to prove that she was actually laying on
the lunch box? And they go, the lunch box isn't
part of the car? I know it's not in the pictures.
Where is it? Well we left her take the lunch box? Well,
why there was a shooting in the car? Was there
blood on it before you let her take it? Where
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their hair on it? Was there? Prince? Was there anything? Like?
You guys know better? You have to know better. That's
where you start to go. Why The Rivera families lawsuit
accuses several l a s D members of participating in
a cover up of the shooting by seizing and destroying
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video camera footage. Part of their job, as it's described
to them, is to protect the department. The bottom line
is I view a lot of civil rights cases this way.
There is the deputy who made the decision, whatever that
decision was, But then there's the people who follow up
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and deal with the investigation of that decision. And I
probably have more patience for the poor decision that was
made in a very short period of time than I
have for the countless decisions that get made during what
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should be a systematic gathering of facts that then determine
whether something was done right or wrong. Part of the
concern that people should have is why when I believe
nine civilian witnesses walked into a federal courtroom and testified
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they saw him outside the vehicle when the shots went out,
the Sheriff's department concluded that they were all wrong. The
case settled for one and a half million dollars during trial,
which was funded by taxpayers. The county also paid for
attorney's fees on both sides. In May, deputies Oscar Barrios
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and Jason Zabola were working together that month they stopped
forty nine year old Terry Lafitte as he rode his
bicycle through the Florence Firestone area. Barrios and Zabola said
they initiated the stop because they did not see a
safety light on Terry's bike. They followed him to his
house and chased him into his backyard. His sisters, nieces,
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and nephews were inside the house at the time and
came outside when they heard the commotion. Lafitte's nephew testified
he saw the deputies tackle his uncle to a prone
position on the ground without saying a word to Terry.
Terry's sister, who was pregnant at the time, came outside
and began filming. One of the deputies kicked her in
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the stomach and told her he would quote blow her
fucking face off. Terry's nephew said that the deputies forced
him to the ground at gunpoint and one beat him.
The other placed Terry in a headlock. The two deputies
began to beat Terry with their flashlights, then shot him
execution style in the back of the head. Terry left
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behind three daughters. Here's Walter Wabi, who represented the family
of the first man, Oscar Barrios killed. Oscar Barrios, I
remember I thought he had a problem. I thought he
had an ego problem with the badge. In my opinion,
he should have been let go from the force after that.
You should have been let go after the Lusk shooting.
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That's what happens when the police don't police themselves. They
let a bad apple stay on the street and it
happens again. Several other deputies immediately arrived at the home
and confiscated the witness cell phones. Neighbors told family members
the deputies hung around in the backyard with Terry's body
laughing after the shooting. Barrios and Zabola claim that Terry
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had a gun, but Zabola said in his deposition he
never saw a weapon. A gun was recovered at the scene,
but it tested negative for Terry's DNA. The testing did find, however,
that at least two other individuals handled the gun. Those
individuals were never identified. After the incident, Terry's sister said
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in a press conference quote, I want revenge from my
brother's death. There will be no justice in Los Angeles
until my brother's murderers go to prison. I want them
jailed for killing my brother and brutalizing my family. But
that didn't happen. The Lafitte family settled the case for
one and a half million dollars before it went to trial. Taxpayers,
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of course, paid for that, but Barrios and Zabola were
never charged, and it does not appear they were ever disciplined.
Even worse, Zabola went on to kill another person in
front of their family. Twenty eight year old Johnny Martinez
moved in with his parents into their Florence Firestone area
home shortly after being diagnosed with schizophrenia. Here's Martinez family
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attorney Ryan Casey, Johnny was for the most part in
good spirits. His parents loved him deeply. He's very close
with his mother. Given his mental illness, he would have
episodes and could be difficult, so that was why sometimes
officers have been called. And Johnny was a big boy,
but he loved his parents. He was very affectionate. When
he wasn't having uh you know, an issue or an episode,
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sometimes he would think and get paranoid that people were
coming after him. Johnny also had a daughter living out
of state with her mother. He got along well with
his neighbors, but did get into a verbal argument with
one on October four, two thousand fourteen. Casey told me
in that Johnny was eating right before the argument started.
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As things got tense, Johnny bear hugged his neighbor, cutting
his face with a fork in the process. The man's
thirteen year old son called one and was connected to
several dispatchers who incorrectly reported the man as being stabbed.
The last dispatcher the boy spoke to called Johnny quote
slow when the kid tried to correct her and tell
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her Johnny was calmly sitting on the porch with his
parents The dispatcher also told the child to approach deputies
and clarify dispatch mistakes himself. Attorney Ryan Casey says that
when Deputy Jason Zabola and four others arrived, they ignored
neighbors who tried to explain what was happening. Johnny remained
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seated on his parents steps as the deputies approached. He
had a small stake knife in his hands and laid
it on the ground when asked. Even though Johnny complied,
the deputies stated that they shot a taser at him,
then pepper spray. Next, all four shot at him, firing
at least thirty six times. One of the bullets also
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struck Johnny's neighbor standing nearby. Johnny died on the steps
in front of his family and neighbors. The deputies who
shot Johnny were found to have acted in self defense
and no charges were filed. Zabola was promoted, ironically, to
a gang detective unit, Operation Safe Streets. The Martinez family
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and the family of the neighbor who was shot filed
civil suits against l A County and were awarded two
and a half million dollars and two million dollars, respectively,
paid for by taxpayers. It was very interesting because they
were very very resistance on letting us get into any
of the evidence regarding tattoos, regarding gang affiliation. We had
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to file many motions to compel production of that information
with the court because they were instructing their clients not
to answer. And it was only once the judges granted
and provided us access to get this information. And we're
gearing up I believe for another deposition of the deputy
that we're focused here on deputy as a ball when
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the case actually resolved. So I don't know if there
was anything that they didn't want to come out or
didn't want to be dug deeper on, but the case
did resolve. The further we dug into those areas, members
of the regulators were beginning to move up in the department.
They now had security power and nothing stopping them. The
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time had come for the regulators to train the latest
set of recruits fresh out of the academy in a
place where no one would be looking. The jails that's
coming up next week. I used to alone did the
whole hood moment. Fuck the police, I'm a fucking trophy.
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