Gangs in Police Departments operate just like street gangs. The 2000 Boys made assaulting incarcerated men part of recruitment, with the report noting that âa deputy reportedly fractured the orbital bone of a non-combative inmate to âearn his ink.ââ
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Cops chasing their initiation ink. https://twitter.com/el_tragon_de_LA/status/1300582905593303041?s=19
Remember this?? The 18 yr old security guard working at the auto body shop who was shot in LA? Well the truth has finally come out and it was that cop's initiation into the deputy gang "The Executioners". They call it "Chasing Ink". https://twitter.com/el_tragon_de_LA/status/1274118743661047808?s=19
Sporting tattoos featuring Nazi imagery & AK-47s, members become inked after executing members of the public.
Deputies would throw â998 parties,â after the code for an âofficer-involved shooting, to celebrate that theyâre going to be âinkingâ somebody. https://losangeleno.com/features/lasd-whistleblower-executioners/
Deputies would throw â998 parties,â after the code for an âofficer-involved shooting, to celebrate that theyâre going to be âinkingâ somebody. https://losangeleno.com/features/lasd-whistleblower-executioners/
In 2017 the Compton station captain at the time had turned to that deputy to boost arrest statistics after the captain was reprimanded for low numbers at the station. Monthly arrests per deputy more than doubled & that captain was eventually promoted. https://www.officer.com/investigations/news/21151307/los-angeles-county-deputy-sheriff-gang-lied-about-guns-hosted-drinking-parties
Executioners tattoo. Some of the other gangs running the LA Sheriffs Departments are the Grim Reapers, Banditos & Jump Out Boys. They target minorities & no one who is Black or Female can join. I have no doubt that there are similar gangs throughout departments across the country
The Banditos - another Police Gang https://laist.com/2019/09/18/east_la_sheriffs_deputies_lawsuit_harassment_violence_banditos_clique.php
A Baltimore City Police Gang
Fault Lines returns to Baltimore as new details emerge about an elite plain-clothes police unit that, for years, doubled as a criminal gang - robbing residents, planting evidence, and sending countless innocent people to jail https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/faultlines/2018/10/gang-baltimore-police-scandal-181003055735408.html
Fault Lines returns to Baltimore as new details emerge about an elite plain-clothes police unit that, for years, doubled as a criminal gang - robbing residents, planting evidence, and sending countless innocent people to jail https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/faultlines/2018/10/gang-baltimore-police-scandal-181003055735408.html
John Sweeney knew from his four decades as a civil rights lawyer that something about the police shooting of Donta Taylor was off. Taylor was shot more than a dozen times while walking home after buying a Sprite & a Cigarette. Turns out Sweeney was right.
Https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/05/police-violence-cliques-and-secret-tattoos-fears-rise-over-la-sheriff-gangs
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