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Why Don’t Police Officers Keep Each Other Accountable?
Terrorism and brotherhood under the banner of twisted justice
The message you see on the police car above is a fraud.
The Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department has taught me a lot about the police all across this country.
In parts of Los Angeles, the police terrorize the very communities they are meant to protect. Fathers like George Floyd are murdered most days, all under the pseudo-semblance of the law.
There is a senior fraternity group among the deputy sheriffs, they’re called the “Banditos”. They’re known to harass civilians and other officers. They beat up the mentally-ill, they pick on minority groups, they even intimidate the non-affiliated.
This group shares a common tattoo. It looks like this:
The deputies in the fraternity are protected. Deputies that commit illegal acts of aggression or make things up in reports are defended by other officers who vouch for their version of the truth.
It’s a fairly well-documented but mostly unknown gang clique within the sheriff’s department here…
