Kizzee’s family attorney told the Washington Post that the 29-year-old man was the victim of an “execution” and said cops shot him in the back 15 times. There were no immediate reports that the officers shot Saturday night are associated with the cops or the police station in Gonzalez’s claims.Įarlier on Saturday, protesters converged on the South Los Angeles location where LASD deputies shot and killed Dijon Kizzee, a Black man who officers stopped while riding a bike for what was immediately described as a “bicycle code violation.” Witnesses to that shooting reportedly blamed the LASD for overreacting. One whistleblower LASD deputy recently brought attention to what the Los Angeles Times reported as “a band of deputies with matching tattoos that wields vast power at the Compton station” and “celebrates deputy shootings.” Austreberto Gonzalez, the LASD deputy who filed the claim against Los Angeles County, said the cops in the alleged gang - called The Executioners - each have “tattoos of a skull with Nazi imagery and an AK-47.” The claim also alleges that the Executioners’ “members were involved in setting illegal arrest quotas and threatening work slowdowns - which involve ignoring or responding slowly to calls - when they did not get preferred assignments.” That was especially true for the LASD’s police station in Compton, which is blocks away from the Metro Blue Line station at Willowbrook Avenue and Compton Boulevard where the deputies were ambushed Saturday around 7 p.m., according to ABC News. In fact, the LASD has been the subject of numerous recent reports of corruption in addition to alleged abuse of deadly force when it’s not warranted. However, the Los Angeles Times reported “that sheriff’s detectives on Thursday shot and killed a man in Compton who they said opened fire on them as they served a search warrant.” The circumstances surrounding the shooting were not immediately clear. In theory, competition would be the answer, for Compton to get its own police force, but they disbanded that because it was cheaper to go with the sheriffs department.LASD Sheriff Alex Villanueva said both deputies shot in the ambush - described as “a 31-year-old mother of a 6-year-old boy” and “a 24-year-old man” had been sworn in a little more than a year ago. Oversight and independent audits are probably our best bet. It’s juking the numbers to get a bigger budget. Although I suspect it is also not only endemic to police departments, I bet if one were to check the school district budget or the infrastructure budget, there would probably be something similar. I’m not condoning it, it’s clearly defrauding the taxpayers, I suspect this is pretty common in large police departments with a heavy bureaucracy. This almost sounds like what a lot of government entities do in order to ensure that they use up their full budget so that they don’t get their budget slashed next fiscal year. “Other stations generally engage in minutes fraud near the end of the month in order to exhaust unused city minutes by placing non-existent “ghost cars” in the file,” he wrote. The fraud allegations surfaced earlier this year when a lawyer representing an anonymous deputy assigned to the Sheriff’s Compton station contacted city officials.Ī sheriff’s spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment Wednesday, but said after the whistleblower’s claims first came to light that “an inquiry is being conducted” into the allegations. “For the Sheriff’s Department to be defrauding them of those dollars and essentially to steal money right out of the city coffers, that can’t go unaddressed.” “Taxpayers are footing the bill for law enforcement services and they’re expecting those services to be provided,” Compton City Atty. Compton pays the Sheriff’s Department more than $22 million a year to police the city and in exchange sheriff’s deputies are obligated to spend a certain amount of time each month patrolling Compton’s streets. In it, Compton officials said the alleged deception has led to “major understaffing” and “a lack of responsiveness” to calls for service in the city. The allegations were made in a legal claim filed with the county, which is a precursor to a lawsuit. The city of Compton accused the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department of “rampant” fraud on Wednesday, claiming the agency routinely charges for patrol work that is not done.
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