Biff_Poindexter
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Whistleblower: Deputy Who Shot Andres Guardado Was Trying to Join Executioners
The whistleblower who called attention to the Compton station deputy gang also testified that the deputy who killed Andres Guardado was a prospective member.
losangeleno.com
"L.A. County Sheriff’s Department deputy Austreberto “Art” Gonzalez, the whistleblower who called attention to the Executioners, an allegedly violent clique of deputies at the Compton sheriff’s station, also testified that the deputy who killed 18-year-old Andres Guardado was a prospective member. In sworn testimony, Gonzalez said "members become inked as ‘Executioners’ after executing members of the public, or otherwise committing acts of violence in furtherance of the gang.”
It's easy to believe in South Central LA that there would be a gang connection to a police involved shooting; but not if that gang is part of the LA Sheriff's Department -- but that is exactly what a sheriff deputy testified under oath...
Now this is the case of a guy who was a security guard at an auto body shop -- deputies thought he looked suspicious, approached him and he ran after flashing them his gun...there were no body cameras being worn so you have to give the police a benefit of a doubt...but they shot him 5 times in the back - a ghost gun was recovered...which are basically 80% manufactured guns that you order online or at a gun show...and you complete the rest of it, so to make them untraceable...how that isn't illegal in and of itself, I don't know....
Whether or not this supposed gang within the sheriff's department did anything close to what is alleged is for courts to decide -- if this guy is lying, he is doing it under oath and should be charged...however, one thing is for sure -- members of these deputy gangs have been costing the city millions in lawsuit payouts.
