In the 1990's, I was married to a Los Angeles Sheriff's deputy who worked in these areas. Within months of graduating from the academy, he had these types of tattoos - one on his calf and one on his bicep. Additionally, he was written up for "excessive use of force" multiple times and FINALLY was relieved of duty (with pay!) after years of excessive force. At home, he was out of control too. Our marriage ended in divorce.

That sheriff deputy is absolutely 100% lying saying he doesn’t know about any gangs within their department.

His smug grin when asked "are there gangs in the sheriff department?" Made me sick to my stomach.

Shame on that sheriff! He’s part of the problem…. Did he just say the largest law enforcement agency in the county “has no bad cops, doing bad things”? Come on sheriff. Truly shameful

The woman who broke the story is a hero and needs to be protected. She has said that those deputy gangs have been threatening her, following her, and scaring her family.

I grew up across the street from the East LA Station. For me & my friends this is a huge “we told you so” - now finally the world will know the truth ✊

My mother worked for the LA sheriff's department, and I know a lot of what used to go on, and now she is deceased under strange circumstances.

Growing up in El Paso Texas, I learned by age 15 that you do NOT want to get the attention of the wrong cop on the wrong day, as that could be your last day or mean years imprisoned as they could choose to plant something on you

I'm 48, but ever since growing up as a teenager in Los Angeles, I always felt something sinister about my encounters with the Sheriffs. Couldn't explain it then, but now I see.

Can anyone tell why police are aloud to turn off and on their body cameras when convenient for them????? Biggest sham ever! Crazy part is people are dumb enough to let them do it. They should get fired if it turns off for one second.

Saddest thing is it’s probably harder to become a gang member of a sheriff group than it is to simply gain the power to become a police officer.

As a former deputy, this is on point (i spoke out and got retaliated against). The special units are the graduate schools of these cliques.

Remember Sheriff Baca and his second in command, Tanaka were Vikings. One of the most racist gangs in the sheriff department. I remember not to long ago I was driving down Vermont Ave in South Los Angeles when a sheriff car pull in front of me and slowed down dramatically to where I had to brake hard to avoid hitting them. They then proceeded to slow down almost to a crawl. I stayed behind them for a while they drove 10 mph I was too scared to switch lanes. After a while of driving in that manner I switch lanes. They then jumped back in front of me and slammed on their brakes again and repeated the same thing. So I just stayed behind them all the way to my destination. I have no doubt they were trying to provoke me into something that would have left me beaten to a pulp, Dead or in jail on some bogus charges. We use to have a FBI that take down these criminals but nothing have been done.

13 gun shots on someone running away, what threat is someone running away, and 13 gun shots overkill is a understatement.

Growing up in San pedro, cops would arrest us and take us to an alley and beat us up. Thats why we always made sure we weren't walking alone. And if we seen them we would run from them

Just like the suspects they arrest, deputies should have all tattoos photographed and catalogued by administration and/or IAD. Gang membership should cause them to be fired immediately. Eliminate qualified immunity now.

Born & raised in L.A. , the Sheriff's Dept. Gangs were whispered about for MANY years. Most of us knew they were not idle rumors. Hope it all comes out in the open now.

That situation is not only in LA,,,it has been that way for years and it is all over the country,,,,some are smarter that others and do a good job covering their fingerprints…they are simply put A STATE SPONSORED GANGS pure and simple.

How come we cant get a committee of our friends together to 'investigate' ourselves when we're accused of a crime?

Lol that officer in the car is clearly part of a gang himself. His response was calculated and thought out he knew what he was saying wasn’t true. Look at the smile on his face the second she says OH

The cop that said "show me" That's like asking a Freemason for evidence of thier evil deeds. Or a street gang member to show you evidence of his gang. What a joke. America is screwed.

Thank you for your time and hard work on this issue.

a justified shooting with 13 bullets in him. come on. this is a disgusting use of power. my heart goes out to anthonys family and friends. i hope they do get justice against these monsters

End qualified immunity, that’s how we can stop this type of abuse!

This is a nationwide problem in the United States, even though the police agencies are local.

I still have a lot of family living in L.A. I grew up in the North County of San Diego. Before I left for Arizona, around 1979, my cousins would talk about gangs such as this among the Sheriffs. I dismissed it as a myth. We moved back to CA, in 2000 (not to L.A.) and my cousins still tell me about gangs in law enforcement, but now with personal experience added. What a mess that is. Whenever I watch those Cop Watcher videos, those auditors actually tell the aggressive Sheriffs if they are gang members. Since they have cameras, they get the same smirk as the ones in this video. Out here in Riverside County, we have offered to buy coffee for the local Sheriffs (we have a cafe, four doors down from us) and what we get is disrespectful laughing and words like "No way" "Yeah sure" but no "No Thanks". To be fair, there are plenty of good guys around here, but these officers with the attitudes, are still a small group, and stick out like a sore thumb. I really hope that is not the case in Riverside County.

Here in the south we call that the good ol boy system. I was a firefighter for 14 years and was forced to resign because I refused to conform and be corrupt. I gave 14 years to South Carolina and was slapped in the face for doing the right thing. They even tried to sabotage my marriage

Tattoo artist I knew did a bunch of those Jump Out Boys tattoos. It started with just one, but he did such a fantastic job that the 1st deputy sent referrals, a LOT of referrals! He got a business card from every officer he tattooed, & whenever he found himself on "questionable ground," legally, he'd whip out that stack of business cards & all his troubles would disappear, kinda like a "Get Out of Jail Free" card. It empowered him, making him think he could, I dunno, get away with murder... He's doing 25 to life at Pelican Bay. 😔

“We investigated ourselves and we have found no wrongdoing” :-)

It’s crazy to see that no country is actually free of violence and discrimination

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I went to Long Beach city college taking criminal justice before I was going to the Army to become a cop, It was these college courses with actual police officers who were the professors, and me being from the most hardest hoods in Long Beach, insane crips and West side longos the information taught was very conflicting... These classes made me ultimately decide not to become law enforcement because they we're nothing more than the gangs I grew up around and the messed up streets that took my mother in front of me as a child which gave me a desire to find him... My choice was made way back in 1995, we're just now showing this problem 20 plus years later, that's insane... Note people like Suge Knight and Keefe D are products of Compton police corruption, look what madness they were involved in... Crazy.

Love this channel cuz it’s unfiltered

Amazing reporting y’all! Keep it going

What a great mother standing and getting her voice and message out!

“He broke up the Bandits uh by sending them into different departments”, didn’t he deny any gangs in his department? He’s bugging the office of the inspector, come on, he’s guilty as charge.

Staggering how such a country allows this to happen.

I’m glad this is still going wide as a video and real story

Shame on that Sheriff... I can't even address the nonsense that came out of his gob 😡😠🤬 The community should go on "self defence" mode and identify and target the Banditos... that's not violence on cops but on a criminal gang...

"why did you run?" is the most ridiculous question to ask residents in these types of communities.

Badge-cams should be compulsory for every officer out there! No exceptions. The camera does not lie.

Wow! This video was an eye opener for sure! It leaves one with a sick sense of disgust hearing that law enforcement in East LA is corrupted with gangs within.

Why am I not surprised... I'd guess that this type of thing is going on in all cities of any size

With that mustache Deputy Rojas looks like he’s a prospect for the Mexican Mafia!

It's a fraternity. Which gets to police itself with a outrageous budget that has allowed it to militarized itself. Not to mention a powerful union with political ties that reach all the way to the top. So if u have a fraternity that's rotten to the core. How can u ever reform or defund it?

Watching more than 1.500 cop watch (1.485 from USA) videos, I'm very pleased to see my favorite news channel, Aljazeera posting this very sober & always objective reportage. Absolutely great & very needed!👍👌

I bet Quatar has even worse issues like this but they will never make a documentary about that huh? Interesting

Who Hired this man he should be fired he should not be representing any law enforcement agency in this country.. this is exactly the problem in this country.

That's like transferring inmates to another location as a form of punishment 🤦🤦🤦

If you read the manifesto of that lapd officer who went on that shooting spree a while ago he talked about this . He tried to speak out about it but kept getting reprimanded for it until he snapped .

At some point, which has passed, people will not wait on Justice. They will seek it themselves.

These gang bangin sheriffs will mess with the wrong one. Might be Cartel, Ex military, just simply the wrong one. I will feel no sympathy for them and thier families. This is going to literally come back to them in the worst of ways. People will tire of it and take matters into thier own hands..

Are you part of the banditos? Officer with an official bandito looking mustache: no

Thank you for exposing this again

Thank for this. I was just recently showing this to my sister because we lived in la at one time. About half way into this video she broke down crying. She was finally able to tell me that two la county sheriff's passed my sister several times as she walked home from school when she was 13. They took her a half hour away and 2 miles into some woods, raped her and left her. They told her they would kill her family if she talked. She wandered in the woods for two days before some teen agers camping found her. They got here help and did a rape kit on her. We have a letter from the testing lab that said there was a good dna print in the results of the dna test and the results were turned over to the la sheriff. The la sheriff said the test was negative. and nothing ever happened

Mom: We need to take our streets back and away from these criminals. To think she's not speaking of street gangs, but the people who wear badges and a uniform, you can see the guilt in the Sheriff's eyes and his body movements show that outright lying to the reporter, he probably has one of them gang tattoos.

They live next to a state highway and the police vehicle wasn’t even a sheriffs vehicle… it was a California Highway Patrol patrol car

My dad met Anthony at a memorial spot for someone else who passed, a week before the cops killed him. It hurt my pops because he grew up in the same area he did and he’s had friends that been in the same situations, smh when he was 13 yrs old the cops tried making my dad admitting to a crime of burning a car in the middle of the street just because he was walking by and they had him in the investigation room for like 6 hours. and this was in 1993 like this shits need to stop. Condolences to the family. R.I.P Anthony

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That sheriff that was ask About bandistas Is one of them. Look how he answer “ show me” read his face expressions

I was locked up in Harris county jail once. Upon release, one of the biggest no neck cops in the place told us he was a member of the biggest gang in Harris county...HPD.

"WHY DID HE RUN"???? He ran because he knew he was targeted by an execution squad of heavily armed, legally sanctioned psychopathic killers. The fact that he was brutally murdered proves this. The fact that the goon squad who murdered him already had a gun to plant on their victim shows premedation. This should have been a clear cut case of premeditated gang murder. Why didn't The DA's office criminally charge those murderers?

Anyone is gonna run? Yeah, right! Every "Fast" Station has a clique. ELA, Lennox, Carson, Compton and the first Sheriff Station, Firestone. I spent 10 years at Lennox and though the clique was "The Grim Reapers", I never saw any wrong doing by them. All the Deputies in the cliques hide their tattoos on their ankle. All of these "Fast" Stations are generally in high crime areas which are Hispanic and Black. In 10 years at Lennox, we only had 1 fatal shooting when a Black Muslim tried to take a Deputy's gun. To get promoted to a coveted position like SEB (SWAT), Homicide, ESD (Emergency Service Detail, etc...You have to come from a "Fast" Station. Slower Stations like Marina Del Rey and Lomita get no respect but I understand why. I transferred to Lomita to be closer to home. The Deputies and Training officers had no clue on how to handle serious incidents, but it was uncommon for anything serious to happen. It was so bad, I requested a 1 man car because I didn't want to work with them.

True story My car was in the mechanic shop for a short period of time. I used Uber to get around. I had a driver a black fit heavy set looking guy. During the drive. He had told me he was a cop from Chicago for a certain amount of year. He did become a cop in LA but said and I quote “there’s too much politics here” In Chicago and the amount of years he has of experience. He eventually got the right to not need a partner to ride with him. Apparently that wasn’t the case in LA. He didn’t wanna tell me more into it but I can see why.

There isn't a more fearful & dangerous gang than one with "the law" on their side/control of it, at their fingertips. Essentially Untouchable.

Can tell KZfaq is not letting people see this, more people need to know bout this

Man that's messed up when you can't depend on the law to protect you. May young bood rest in peace.

I love how hard y'all go for Anthony, my heart goes out to the family

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When I was a police officer in Chicago, we had “officers” throwing down gang signs at one another right in the roll call room! The watch commander had to keep certain officers a Way from one another out on the street.

This video needs to get out there . They should show this on the news channels in Los Angeles

Thank you for covering this

The simple fact is if the city made a payout there was wrongdoing if it was a justified shooting there's no lawsuit

I don't have no regrets for busting the same deputy up for sending me to prison as a juvenile twice and the 3rd time I hit him so hard off duty he was out cold they took him to Lynnwood St francis

Ive known Banditos. They are just like any infamous gang/motorcycle club. In fact, I hooked up with one of their daughters. He treated me like family until we started hanging out with different groups of friends. Before that, he offered us beer and weed starting at 14-15yrs old…was always invited to barbecues, etc. Once his daughter & I went our separate ways, I was beaten when being searched at 16…Cop’s reason? He “thought he smelt weed”…so he punched me in the face, while my hands were up. I was a skater in a small town, so the only trouble I had ever been in was little things, like “skating where I wasn’t supposed to”…to this day, never arrested for violence, or any such things. No felonies. At 17, I was strip searched by two officers with a friend of mine on the side of the road at 3am. They desperately wanted to find “cocaine” on us, because my friend had a little baggie that originally had a button in it, in his jacket pocket. They were acting like dope fiends. “Wheres the coke? Where’s the coke? C’mon guys, we know you have it, where is jt?” They made us expose ourselves, and shone their flashlights on our genitals, and tried to demean us by “comparing our size” to each other. I had guns pulled on me twice, and had an officer threaten to charge me with “felonious assault on an officer”, “ruin my life”, and “no-one would know the difference…but [he] would…and [he’d] smile doing it”. This was all the same police department. I left that town when I turned 20.

*REMINDS YOU OF "TRAINING DAY" - Alonzo's group had their own ink .. "Death is certain, life is not"*

I wish that a channels like this would take time to create a playlist of Police gangs. Starting in Los Angeles surrounding areas, these gangs are in the jails too. One gang each episode. Because their are multiple Police gangs even just within the LASD. Imagine the ones in other areas, States etc. To this day I wish someone had asked this ex Sheriff to show the public his tattoo.

There can only be ONE reason that body cams would be turned off while on a “call”.

As a kid we saw cops and ran. Cops scared us so bad it's like ptsd just having them come around. It's like your body goes cold and hair stands up like you saw a ghost.

Growing up in the small city of Maywood I always heard these stories as a child. Everyone would tell me how the sheriffs would plant guns on them, illegal arrests, etc.

In hope that it helps all who read this and who can get this message to you and your family 🙏

It's ironic,to her a cop calling someone else a rat!

If it hasn't already been mentioned, you can imagine such law enforcement gangs are definitely working with upper tier street and or biker gangs to generate that illicit income. It's a no brainer that one revolves around the other. The victim's family needs to keep in mind of a possible hit or perceived threat a gang or individual entity had and put these cops to work. It's just a possibility that has to be considered if not already.

And our government officials work hard everyday to increase their power and decrease their liability. All at the cost of already marjonlized communities. Leo's gain power and income as they erode what is left of the legal system. Policies enforced only quiet the rage in the streets. As those with all the power pass the buck to redirect blame and focus is shameful.

Man that first E LA sheriff had the cat that ate the canary smirk saying ,” show me a gang in she sheriffs dept.”. That smirk gave him away !

I am SO glad that the Sheriff is on his way out!! They now give the city council the power to fire the sheriff.

I remember it as if it were yesterday, the Firestone Sheriffs pulled my family over after coming from the drive in. They (sheriffs) pulled my dad from the car and beat him for asking them, "why did you pull me over" They beat my father, the Firestone Sheriffs, 50 years ago. They have been a gang for a long time. I am so sorry this young man had his life taken. I pray they get justice. Justice for Anthony (and others) will be justice for my father, also.

If you know their gang members in a specific unit and you continue to let them be Sheriff's don't you think there's something wrong with that because if there's corruption Within and you allow the corruption to continue you're part of the corruption

That kid wasn't no gang banger... lock those scumbag officers up

"All arrests made by criminal cops are final" 🤣 absolutely everyone arrested by them should sue the county

I REMEMBER WHEN HAVING TATTOOS WOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN ALLOWED... THAT WAS HOW YOU ABLE TO DISTINGUISH BETWEEN THUG AN GOOD HARD WORKING CITIZENS.... WHATEVER HAPPENED

Thank you for sharing this story. One more reason why people working in law enforcement should be required to have insurance. The burden to pay for killing an innocent person should not be placed on the tax payers. Also all law enforcement workers need to registered;Perhaps this would make it easier to trace any misconduct of any type.

Thank you for sharing this!

This type of activity is way more common than I think anyone truly realizes. You dont have to sport tattoos or have certain symbols ....especially when you're law enforcement . Those things are ALREADY PROVIDED with your Badge, your uniform, your gun, and the INTENT to perpetuate, and protect others in activity that is quite extremely comparable to the very definition of what a "Gang" is known to be. Until a much more of a majority of people start holding them a bit more aggressively accountable, the running rough shot over citizens and their inalienable rights will continue like business as usual.

What a devastating loss to that institution's legitimacy.

Respect to the families that are going through this mess with the LASD. Nothing is going to change unless the people stand up to these thugs!

This is some solid as updated info n data! 🤯 💯

That deputy laughed in her face .They shot some kid 13 times claiming he had a gun and yet the kids fingerprints were not on the gun .By the way 10 of those shots were in his back ,1 in the shoulder and 2 finally in his head ,the kill shot .That alone should raise red flags immediately ,throw in no fingerprints and you have a murder by the police .

Is there any updates to this case?

The problem I have with investigative pieces like this, the team swoops into town does their story, then they are out. No follow through. I challenge you to revisit this story every year. Make them uncomfortable. Stress leads to mistakes. Hopefully one caught on camera.