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jls4561

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5. Thank you for the information. It helped, but left me with more questions.

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Sat Jun 14, 2025, 10:23 PM

Jun 2025

Who deploys the LA County Sheriff’s Department? Do they just wake up one morning, watch Fox and say to themselves “Well boys, them brown people and hippies are making trouble again. Let’s go.” Someone in the county must have authorized them.

And then there’s the larger question - who’s coordinating all the different groups?

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Question: who's in charge in LA? Specifically, what person or group is coordinating [View all] jls4561 Jun 2025 OP

Sheriff's department is not LAPD. It's county, not city. haele Jun 2025 #1

Historically, the LA County Sheriff's were brutal racist arses Bread and Circuses Jun 2025 #2

The Sheriff department is headed by an elected sheriff drray23 Jun 2025 #3

Newsom needs to deputize ACLU and other cop watching attorneys as law enforcement. Hassin Bin Sober Jun 2025 #4

Thank you for the information. It helped, but left me with more questions. jls4561 Jun 2025 #5

The LA sheriff who is an elected leader decides that.nt. drray23 Jun 2025 #6

glad you asked the question stillcool Jun 2025 #7