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FBI opens criminal investigations into violent Los Angeles County deputy encounters

The FBI has opened criminal investigations into violent encounters involving Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies

The Independent UK

FBI investigating violent incidents by LA County deputies in Palmdale and Lancaster

LOS ANGELES — The FBI has opened two criminal investigations into violent incidents involving Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies in Palmdale and Lancaster, both of which sparked criticism after video footage came to light in recent weeks.

Los Angeles Times

Three gang members plead guilty to racketeering in killing of off-duty LAPD officer

Three gang members pleaded guilty Thursday to federal racketeering for their roles in the robbery and fatal shooting of off-duty Los Angeles Police Department Officer Fernando Arroyos while he was looking for a new home to buy last year, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

Los Angeles Times

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LA sheriff’s office under scrutiny after deputy punches mother holding baby

Officer is seen hitting woman twice in face as she holds her baby in video released by LA county sheriff Robert Luna

The Guardian - US

An LA deputy punched a woman in the face as she held her 3-week-old baby, video shows

Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna released video of the July 2022 incident this week, saying he'd only just learned of it. He said the deputy has been disciplined and the FBI is looking into it.

WEKU

Video shows LA deputy punching mother holding baby during traffic stop for headlights

LA County sheriff Robert Luna called the deputy’s actions ‘completely unacceptable’

The Independent UK

LA County sheriff says deputy punching baby-holding mother in the face was 'completely unacceptable'

The Los Angeles County sheriff has decried the use of force by deputies in the Antelope Valley for the second time in a week

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After deputy throws woman to ground, LA County Sheriff says probe will go beyond viral video

Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna on Wednesday provided new details about an investigation into an altercation in Lancaster in which a deputy threw a woman to the ground.

Los Angeles Times

LA County sheriff's department calls video of deputy tackling woman 'disturbing,' opens inquiry

The Los Angeles County sheriff says video footage of a deputy violently throwing a woman to the ground while she filmed her husband being handcuffed in a grocery store parking lot is “disturbing."

The Independent UK

Deputies outlined veiled threat to county watchdog on defaced poster. Nothing happened

LOS ANGELES — Last fall, investigators with the Office of Inspector General — the county's watchdog — paid a visit to the troubled East Los Angeles sheriff's station, home of the notorious Banditos deputy gang.

Los Angeles Times

Sheriff orders deputies to obey watchdog request to reveal gang tattoos

LOS ANGELES — Less than a week after the county watchdog ordered dozens of deputies to show their gang tattoos and answer questions about violent cliques within the department, Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna on Thursday sent a department-wide email commanding his staff to comply with the inspector general's…

Los Angeles Times

Nicholas Goldberg: It's essential to ban LA Sheriff's Department gangs. But is it constitutional?

For at least 50 years, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department has been plagued by secretive "deputy gangs" — organized subgroups of deputy sheriffs who allegedly engage in violence, corruption and illegal activity. And for almost as many years, reformers have hoped to eradicate those gangs, going back to the…

Los Angeles Times

Sheriff says gun permit fraud investigation turned over to California attorney general

LOS ANGELES — Six months after his predecessor announced a criminal investigation into an alleged fraud scheme involving some of the deputies responsible for issuing concealed carry licenses, Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna confirmed this week that he has turned the matter over to state prosecutors.

Los Angeles Times

L.A. undersheriff tied to "deputy gang"

April Tardy says her ankle imprint shows allegiance to her former station. Deputies say it represents a deputy gang

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Capital & Main

Los Angeles Sheriff’s Second-In-Command Has Alleged Gang Tattoo

Undersheriff April Tardy says her ankle imprint shows allegiance to her former station. Deputies say it represents a deputy gang.

Los Angeles Times

Special counsel urges LA sheriff to ban the 'cancer' of deputy gangs

LOS ANGELES — After dozens of interviews and seven public hearings, the Civilian Oversight Commission's special counsel has released a 70-page report condemning the "cancer" of violent deputy gangs and urging Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna to create a policy officially banning the secretive groups.

Los Angeles Times

ACLU asks judge to hold LA sheriff and county supervisors in contempt over jail conditions

LOS ANGELES — The American Civil Liberties Union asked a federal judge Monday to find Los Angeles County, the Board of Supervisors and Sheriff Robert Luna in contempt of court for failing to fix "appalling" conditions in the local lockups.

Los Angeles Times

Handyman confesses to killing LA Bishop David G. O'Connell, district attorney says

LOS ANGELES — A 61-year-old man who prosecutors said has admitted that he killed Bishop David G. O'Connell was charged Wednesday with one count of murder in the shooting death of the much lauded religious leader.

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Handyman charged with murder in the killing of LA Bishop David G. O'Connell

LOS ANGELES — A 61-year-old man whose wife worked as Los Angeles Bishop David O'Connell’s housekeeper was charged Wednesday with one count of murder in the shooting death of the much lauded religious leader, who was known for his humor and work helping immigrant children.

Los Angeles Times

‘He was hunting Jews’: LA officials decry antisemitism in wake of shootings

LOS ANGELES — In a school gymnasium painted yellow and black to symbolize the star that Jewish people were forced to wear in Nazi Germany, Mayor Karen Bass addressed a crowd of 400 who had gathered for a town hall on antisemitic violence after the shootings of two Jewish men…

Los Angeles Times

An arrest, but still unanswered questions in LA bishop’s slaying

LOS ANGELES — Two days after one of the region’s most beloved clerics was shot to death inside his home, authorities arrested the husband of a housekeeper to Auxiliary Bishop David G. O’Connell following an hours-long standoff Monday at the suspect’s Torrance home.

The Independent UK

Housekeeper’s husband arrested in connection with murder of Irish bishop in LA

The bishop, described as a ‘peacemaker’, was found dead in his home in Torrance city at the weekend.

Chicago Sun-Times

Man arrested in Los Angeles-area Catholic bishop’s slaying had worked for the cleric

The L.A. County sheriff’s office says the husband of a housekeeper who worked for Bishop David O’Connell has been arrested in the priest’s shooting death.

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A housekeeper's husband is arrested in the killing of Bishop David O'Connell

Los Angeles Archdiocese Auxiliary Bishop David O'Connell was found dead with a gunshot wound at his home. Authorities have arrested the husband of his housekeeper in his killing.

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