Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Los Angeles, asked the U.S. Justice Department on Wednesday to investigate the reported existence of a gang of Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies at the Compton Sheriff’s Station who call themselves the “Executioners.”
Waters sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland requesting the action.
“I write to ask that the United States Department of Justice take immediate action to address the reported existence of a rogue, violent gang of law enforcement officials, who call themselves the ‘Executioners,’ operating within the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department, specifically the LASD Compton station,” she wrote.
The LASD disputed the claims made in Waters’ request and sought to shift the issue to the county’s homelessness crisis.
“The claims made by Congresswoman Maxine Waters are unproven allegations which she is portraying as facts,” the department said in a statement. “(A) ‘whistle blower’ lawsuit she cites was dismissed with prejudice for lack of evidence. What we do have evidence of is the explosion of homelessness in Maxine Waters’ district and throughout Los Angeles County. The peculiar timing of these allegations appear to be a distraction from the many failures, at all levels of government, to address this homelessness crisis.”
Waters wrote that a deputy acting as a whistleblower provided sworn testimony identifying more than a dozen deputies with matching tattoos to symbolize their association with the alleged gang.
“Deputies at the LASD Compton Station reportedly ‘chase ink’, a slang term for a deputy who attempts to win favor with the ‘Executioners’ by committing violent acts in hopes of receiving the group tattoo denoting gang membership,” Waters wrote.
“The gang allegedly sets illegal arrest quotas, threatens and harasses fellow deputies, and holds parties after shootings, called ‘998 parties,’ which are in part a celebration that a new deputy will be inked by the gang,” Waters said. “The tattoos worn by the police gang reportedly feature Nazi imagery in disturbing evidence of the violence perpetrated against the Los Angeles community by the LASD gang.”
The whistleblower reportedly identified two deputies involved in the death of 18-year-old Gardena resident Andres Guardado in June 2020 as members of the “Executioners.”
The shooting of Dijon Kizzee in South Los Angeles in August 2020 was also described by Waters as an ” example of the LASD’s excessive and brutal tactics in the Los Angeles community.”
The sheriff’s department has said Guardado was reaching for the gun when he was shot while working as what has been described as an informal security guard for a nearby auto body shop. Guardado’s family has filed a lawsuit against the county alleging wrongful death and civil rights violations.
Kizzee, 29, was killed after sheriff’s deputies allegedly tried to stop him for riding a bicycle in the wrong direction. The sheriff’s department contends Kizzee was fatally shot after he picked up a handgun he had dropped during a struggle with one of the deputies.
The LASD’s statement said the fatal shootings cited by Waters “have been thoroughly investigated and turned over to the Los Angeles County District Attorney, Justice System Integrity Division for further investigation and review, along with monitoring by The California Office of the Attorney General and The Federal Bureau of Investigation.”
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Yet another Dem investigation—or instigation. Do they do anything else?
“I write to ask that the United States Department of Justice take immediate action to address the reported existence of a rogue, violent gang of law enforcement officials, who call themselves the ‘Executioners,’ operating within the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department, specifically the LASD Compton station,” she wrote.” So, how much investigation do you do into MS-13, BLM, Antifa, and the gangs in Chicago? Are you as zealous at calling out the real criminals?
I suppose too, Mrs Waters, that since Dems are all for allowing rioters to do whatever they please, that that must be the the preferred method of operation. If outright lawbreakers are given free reign, then surely law officers would be allowed to mimic their style to enforce what laws are still being allowed to be enforced.
You created your little hell—enjoy it.
Muddy Waters indeed. The People of Los Angeles are like people out in the dessert for weeks without a drink of water and dying of thirst, only to come upon a beckoning water hole called Slapsy Maxine and her pool of political poison. Her policies have caused more deaths and destruction than any corps of rouge Cops could.
PERHAPS WE NEED a “Gang of executioners” out there..
Maxine Waters, the high and mighty, in her several million dollar mansion in a “white neighborhood”. Hey Maxine, why are you living in a “white neighborhood” since all of us “whites” are “racist”? Maxine, ask yourself who the racist is, when you stand in front of a mirror and look at yourself.
The mirrors shatter when she does that sending glass everywhere !
That’s something i always gripe at. HOW IS IT, she can live in ONE DISTRICT, but represent an ENTIRELY DIFFERENT ONE!?!
Yea, it’s amazing how they don’t want walls anywhere besides where they live!! Then you have the same coomucrats like Don Lemon who says the problem is old white men while his partner is an old white man!!! Lol you just can’t make this **** up
“Calling the cops is white privilege”.
Thedemkcrats, lkike mMaxine walters enjoy living the good life under a Capitalist System but they condemn it when the White Race while the White Capitalist lives next door to her.
Just like all those ANTI COP Mayors, Senators and Governors, ALL are spending, literally MILLIONS OF OUR TAX DOLLARS on their own private security…
The socialist, Democrat Party’s scheme: “Rule and Ruin”.
All one has to do is to observe the Cities and States Ruled by the dishonorable, dishonest, traitorous Democrat Party,
to see the insane mentality of hate and destruction.
Are Democrats mentally hateful deranged because they are Democrats?
Or are they Democrats because they are mentally hateful deranged?
Why would ANYONE want such hateful and dishonest people like the dishonorable Democrats Nasty Nancy Pelosi, the racist Maxine Waters or Adam Schiff to represent them in Congress??
We alway are left in amazemet that someone who has such loathinh and disdain for police, alway requests extra police protection for herself , I’m speaking of democrat, Maxine Walter, of course…
I think she was watching a “Dirty Harry” rerun and thought it was CNN reporting. If any person should be investigated it is her and Pelosi for insider trading!
WHAT! I thought all along that, since Hillary Clinton, ” Bill was reported to have said this about his wife, Hillary Clinton when she hit it big in the stock market, ” My bumb.old Wife, no inside trading for Hillar Clinton, No Sir just another case of a democrat telling, ” Do As I Say, not as I do… “
IMO We could DO with a few DOZEN Harry Calahans, in EVERY LEFTIST city. Dispensing PROPER ON THE SPOT justice…
Given all the vitriol and hate spewing from her mouth against anyone and everyone who disagrees with her one needs to step back and take a hard look. Joe McCarthy and Adam Schiff had loads of evidence and witnesses but none was ever seen or heard from, go figure!
Too bad what this creature spews from her mount isn’t declared an environmental crisis, much like Chernobyl!
MAXINE HAG WATERS, has a way, talent, of always taking the opportunity of showing us her LOW IQ!
Why is Maxine Waters and Nancy Pelosi not in prison for insider trading and inciting riots. Is this sane, no, they also should be tested for mental illness.
BECAUSE rules never apply to commucrats.. JUST we the people.
Hi dominic403. Maxine terd Waters has NO IQ – zero/nada/zilch. She is a waste of oxygen.
This colossal POS should be concerned about the number of gang members in the LA region – 140,000. What about that Maxine?????
LA and many other large cities are managed by competing corrupt gangs: corrupt cops, corrupt lawyers, corrupt elected officials, and corrupt judges. Justice, real justice, is rarely possible.
Maxine only wants to eliminate some of the gangs in competition against her gang. All a mafia turf battle.
Maxine . . yoo-hoo . . . .meet me tomorrow at Jack London square in Oakland . There’s one of your typical supporters I met the other day who has something for YOU! love and kisses . .. .Barbara Boxer