marvin martian
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The entire LA DA's office is a group of pro-crime lefties, who have apparently spent years illegally persecuting cops while ignoring (and in some cases, even facilitating) the city's rampant violence, crime, homelessness, and human trafficking.
LA County Assistant DA Diana Teran, who oversaw George Gascón's efforts to prosecute law enforcement officers instead of criminals and to release thousands of felons from prison early, was arrested Saturday on 11 felony charges related to the "unauthorized use of data from confidential, statutorily-protected peace officer files." Like many alleged felons in Los Angeles County, Teran was out on bail less than an hour after her arrest.
LA County Assistant DA Diana Teran, who oversaw George Gascón's efforts to prosecute law enforcement officers instead of criminals and to release thousands of felons from prison early, was arrested Saturday on 11 felony charges related to the "unauthorized use of data from confidential, statutorily-protected peace officer files." Like many alleged felons in Los Angeles County, Teran was out on bail less than an hour after her arrest.
- Between 2014-18, as Constitutional Policing Advisor for LASD, Teran withheld exculpatory evidence from Internal Affairs Bureau (IAB) investigations and findings, leading to the discipline and termination of deputies who should have been exonerated.
- NOTE: Those deputies' personnel files would then contain inaccurate information about their actions, and could improperly taint cases they were involved in.
- Starting in June 2018 Teran improperly accessed and downloaded the personnel files of then-candidate Villanueva and other LASD employees who supported his campaign, allegedly at Huntsman's direction.
- The weekend before Villanueva was sworn in, according to sources, Huntsman sent Teran into the Sheriff's office with an external hard drive and instructions to gather additional personnel files.
- After leaving LASD when Villanueva took office in late 2018, Teran went to work with the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) and eventually the LA County Public Defender's office, and sources close to the current investigation have told RedState that Teran added information from the personnel files to the Public Defender's database. (She is not charged with doing so currently, and we do not have independent verification of that.)
- When Villanueva learned in early 2019 that personnel files had been improperly removed, he initiated an investigation into Teran and Huntsman; Huntsman aligned with anti-cop members of the LA County Board of Supervisors to shut it down.
- Teran allegedly used information within one deputy's personnel file to charge him with domestic violence once she was working at the DA's office, just a few days before the statute of limitations would have run.
- According to sources within Gascón's office, Teran uploaded the personnel file information into a database (likely the ORWITS database) at Gascón's office.
- Teran used the information in these files when she headed up Gascón's re-investigation of officer-involved shootings and use-of-force incidents that had already been cleared under former DA Jackie Lacey, according to sources within Gascón's office, and Gascón was in the room with her when she did so. At least a few of those deputies were criminally charged.
- In 2022 Huntsman allegedly tipped off LA County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl the night before a search warrant was to be executed by LASD and FBI related to a pay-for-play investigation. Kuehl was one of the loudest voices against Villanueva's investigation into Huntsman and Teran.
- As one of Gascón's most trusted assistants, Teran has overseen retaliatory actions against Deputy DA's who speak out against Gascón's directives or refuse to enforce his policies that they believe are against the law or against their oath. Millions of dollars in legal settlements have already been paid to Deputy DA's as a result, as the Deputy DA's union (LAADDA) points out here.
