Deputies say gangs exist within Los Angeles Sheriff's Department

[diehardblue]

Deputies say gangs exist within Los Angeles Sheriff's Department
The deputies, who do not want to be identified for fear of reprisal, claim the most prevalent are called the Banditos — comprised of mostly Latino deputies who serve predominantly African American and Latino neighborhoods.

"They operate as a gang. They commit crimes, they assault people," one deputy told CBS News' Maria Elena Salinas.

The deputy said the gang is based out of East L.A., and that members who have become Banditos there have been promoted and "they've spread all over the county."

Members of the gang identify themselves with a tattoo, another deputy claimed.

They said the "initiation" process could involve "getting a shooting," adding that potential members would "do anything for these guys."

"If you get in a shooting that's a definite brownie point," the deputy said.

According to the deputies, members would plant weapons on suspects to justify those shootings.

"There's been multiple occasions where … they say, 'Hey, we got a guy that has a gun and he's running from us.' In reality that person never had a gun," one deputy said. "And they would say, oh, it was a phantom gun. It was something that really wasn't there."

The same deputy said they had personally witnessed that occurring.

And despite the majority of deputies involved also being Latino, another deputy said the gangs "do racial profile."

"It's like Latino gangs. They target other young Latinos," the deputy said.

That targeting is what grieving mother Lisa Vargas has contended happened to her 21-year-old son Anthony Vargas, who aspired to be a chef. He was shot 13 times by sheriff's deputies while on his way home.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/deputies-say-gangs-exist-within-los-angeles-sheriffs-department/ar-BB1e0DeL?ocid=mailsignout&li=BBnb7Kz

[Oldem]

1. Sadly, this doesn't surprise me at all.

[Jim__]

2. I wish it was hard to believe this. - n/t

[zaj]

3. Minorities are "gangs", but white supremacists are "blue lives"

Got it.

[MenloParque]

7. They all recognize and fall under blue lives

However, different sectors have gangs within the big blue gang. Banditos operate mostly in E.L.A, Executioners are a primarily black cop gang who mostly out of Compton, the Vikings are a probably the biggest white boy cop gang in LA. There are many many more who operate in specialized ops that would benefit only them- robberies, prostitution, heists, etc. They are all in the Big Blue Gang of LAPD.


Source: cousin in LAPD

[LeftInTX]

12. Bandidos are a motorcycle gang. I'm sure they're right wingers and bikers for Trump.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandidos_Motorcycle_Club.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Waco_shootout

In 2014, the Texas Department of Public Safety listed the Bandidos Motorcycle Club as a "Tier 2" threat, the same rating as the Crips, Bloods, and Aryan Brotherhood, but it did not evaluate the Cossacks.[1] That assessment said that the Bandidos Motorcycle Club "conducts their illegal activities as covertly as possible, and avoids high-profile activities such as drive-by shootings that many street gangs tend to commit."[7]

Bandidos have been designated an outlaw motorcycle gang by the U.S. Department of Justice.[8] The club is involved in drug trafficking, weapons trafficking, prostitution, money laundering, explosives violations, motorcycle and motorcycle-parts theft, intimidation, insurance fraud, kidnapping, robbery, theft, stolen property, counterfeiting, contraband smuggling, murder, bombings, extortion, arson and assault.[4] The Bandidos partake in transporting and distributing cocaine and marijuana, and the production, transportation and distribution of methamphetamine.[366] Active primarily in the Pacific, Southeastern, Southwestern and the West Central regions, there are an estimated eight-hundred to one-thousand Bandidos members and ninety-three chapters in sixteen US states.[367][3] Club membership is predominantly white and Hispanic.[368] The Bandidos are supplied with drugs by Los Zetas,[369] and have also associated with the Outlaws in criminal ventures.[8] The Bandidos' rivals include the Hells Angels,[17] Mongols[18] and Vagos.[24]

[MenloParque]

16. Yes- Bandidos are a bikers gang

Banditos are a cop gang in East Los Angeles. Different group of guys but the same.

[JonLP24]

4. This isn't a surprise or anything new when it comes LA law enforcement

Reggie Wright Jr (used to be head of Death Row Records Security) & his father who used to be in the LA Sheriff's Department were arrested on drug trafficking charges a few years ago.

[greenjar_01]

5. Is the gang...the Sheriffs Department?

[Hekate]

6. LA Times has done several in-depth reports on this rot over years, & it persists

It goes deep.

[Fla Dem]

8. Where is the Mayor of LA, Eric Garcetti? Don't the police report to him?

Is this the city of Los Angeles or Los Angels County?

[OMGWTF]

10. Since 2015, LA has paid out over $200 million to settle police abuse lawsuits

[matt819]

11. And will they be investigated and arrested?

I don’t think I’d lose money if I bet no.

[FreepFryer]

13. "White supremacist cops threaten to drop a dime on Latino colleagues who aid purging of LE"

Fixed that headline for ya MSN

[LeftInTX]

14. What????

So are you saying it's all made up?

[FreepFryer]

15. Not at all. White supremacists are saying they will take others with them, extorting their support.

Or at least their non-participation with efforts to remove white supremacists from LE.