I sometimes have trouble posting because I’m never sure if the story is over. As the collapse unfolds, one thing just keeps leading to another. Here’s the story of Los Angeles Sheriff Alex Villanueva’s election defeat and its implications.
‘The sheriff who went rogue’: Alex Villanueva’s scandal-plagued tenure ends in LA
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By Sam Levine for Los Angeles Magazine, 16 November 2022
For only the second time in more than a century, Los Angeles residents have voted out an incumbent sheriff, ending the reign of Alex Villanueva, a scandal-plagued official who civil rights leaders say had become a “danger to the people”.
And we know who’s meant by “civil rights leaders”.
The downfall of the cowboy hat-wearing sheriff comes at the end of a four-year term marked by a dizzying pace of misconduct, abuse and corruption scandals. As the race heated up in the last year, Villanueva faced increasing national scrutiny for his frequent, at times weekly, lashing out at politicians, community leaders, journalists, whistleblowers, watchdogs and other law enforcement officials who tried exposing problems at the department.
Left unmentioned is that Villanueva refused to mandate the vaxx for his deputies and refused to enforce the criminal medical mandates. Thus began the rift between him and the Cultural Marxists who thought a Spanish-speaking Puerto Rican would be a safe bet for replacing Heritage Americans.
We’ll discuss that boldfaced “other law enforcement officials” in a moment.
“He’ll be remembered as the sheriff who went rogue, who operated as if he was above and outside of the law, who acted with impunity,” said Mark-Anthony Clayton-Johnson, executive director of Dignity and Power Now, a group that advocates for people in LA county jails, which are run by the LA sheriff’s department (LASD).
A registered Democrat who had become a favorite of far-right pundits for his “tough on crime” talk and opposition to criminal justice reform, Villanueva has derided his critics as people who “worship at the altar of woke-ism”.
We dissidents are as surprised as the Bolsheviks and Pelosis that Alex V turned out to be a white hat.
Villanueva was a lieutenant when he was elected in 2018 on a platform to clean up an agency that had repeatedly been the subject of investigations. More than a dozen LASD deputies had faced charges five years prior surrounding the beatings of incarcerated people; the top sheriff and his undersheriff were eventually imprisoned following federal obstruction and corruption cases. At trial, the undersheriff admitted he had a tattoo associated with a gang of officers that a judge said was a “neo-Nazi, white supremacist” group.
Villanueva has been accused of engaging in the same kind of cover-ups as his predecessors; while the county’s inspector general has recently identified dozens of current deputies believed to be members of officer “cliques” and gangs, which are known for encouraging brutality, Villanueva has defied subpoenas to testify on the issue and issued legal threats aiming to prevent officials from using the term “deputy gang”. He told the Guardian this year that the gangs were “a problem of perception, not reality”, and that he didn’t want to comply with “political subpoenas”.
I believe the accusations that Latino gangs are infiltrating the Sheriff’s Department. That’s what Latinos do in their home countries and they sure ain’t assimilating now that they’re here. Who could honestly expect different?
In September, armed sheriff’s deputies raided the home of the county supervisor Sheila Kuehl, who serves on a sheriff’s oversight committee and has been a vocal critic. LASD said it was investigating a county contract and potential bribery, and seized Kuehl’s phone and personal computer, but the LA district attorney’s office said it was not involved in the search and had also investigated the claims last year and found no cause for charges.
I first took notice of Villanueva when he refused to vaxx his men. Then I realized he was playing hardball with this Kuehl incident.
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California Attorney General Seizes Control of Los Angeles Sheriff’s Investigation of Local Officials
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21 September 2022
California Attorney General Rob Bonta has taken control of an investigation originally carried out by Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva, which quickly stirred accusations that the sheriff was attempting to intimidate local officials with oversight over his department.
Quite the hypocritical complaint, as you’ll soon see.
Bonta said in a statement on September 20 2022 that the state Department of Justice would assume all responsibility for the probe into the nonprofit group Peace Over Violence.
That investigation led to a search warrant being executed against County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl and the group’s head, Patti Giggans, on September 14 2022 by a “public corruption” unit. Giggans is also part of the Sheriff Civilian Oversight Commission, which is investigating long-standing allegations that several gangs have been allowed to foment within the Sheriff’s Department.
They constantly accused the Sheriff of gang activity. While I don’t doubt it as mentioned above, the possibility of projection here… specifically, gangs in the Los Angeles Police Department… is also credible.
The department also executed a search warrant against the office of local Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s Inspector General Max Huntsman, prompting a legal challenge.
That, in turn, led Villanueva’s department to announce that County Counsel Rod Castro-Silva’s office, which typically represents LASD in legal affairs, had “terminated” that relationship; the department reportedly sought pro bono legal representation at that time.
Sheriff Alex kicked over a hornet’s nest! Finally, a Sheriff fighting back… and in a city that can’t be ignored!
“In recent days, the public unfolding of an unprecedented investigation has raised serious questions for residents of Southern California and beyond,” Bonta said in a statement regarding his office’s assuming responsibility for the “corruption” investigation. “I recognize the deep uncertainty this has engendered and, given the unique circumstances, my team has committed to taking over this investigative process. Make no mistake: We are committed to a thorough, fair, and independent investigation that will help restore confidence for the people of our state. If there is wrongdoing by any party, we will bring it to light.”
The Los Angeles Times also reported that Bonta announced his intentions to the department in a letter responding to [Los Angeles Mayor] Villanueva’s demand that the state Department of Justice investigate whether Giggans and Kuehl had been “tipped off” about the raids.
“Your department should cease its investigative activity and refrain from any actions in furtherance of these investigations, including public statements or court filings related to the investigations,” Bonta said in his response, sent to Undersheriff Tim Murakami, while saying he would indeed accede to Villanueva’s request.
A meaningless snub! The bad guys were on the ropes!
As LAist reported in February 2022, Castro-Silva had sent his own letter to Bonta’s office in late 2021 asking him to take over Villanueva’s investigation of Huntsman, which he said was politically motivated and part of an effort on the sheriff’s part to “discourage legitimate oversight” of his department.
“The only way to put an end to the Sheriff’s abuse of power is to have the California Department of Justice supervise these investigations (including any future investigations the Sheriff may announce against oversight officials), determine whether they have merit, and end them if they do not,” Castro-Silva wrote to Bonta.
Either the Sheriff committed a crime by launching raids with the appropriate warrants, or the rot was so thick that the Sheriff’s own counsel was involved.
A spokesperson for the Sheriff’s Department told us, “No response will be provided. AG has taken over the investigation.”
The Sheriff didn’t do any of this until Covid happened and he stood up for his men. The Marxists retaliated by pressing him on the deputy gang issue. The Sheriff started asking the questions that should have been asked back in the 90s. Tensions escalated until Villanueva was ranting like Andrew Torba on a bender and Los Angeles City was staging a color revolution.
It popped when Villanueva’s raids got the dirt. Rod Castro-Silva sounded the alarm and California’s infamously corrupt state government tried to protect their side by cutting Villanueva out of his own investigation.
Even that was not enough! Villanueva didn’t back down.
California Attorney General’s Office Denies It Wants Kuehl Raid Evidence Destroyed
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By Eric Leonard, 26 October 2022
Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva said the California Attorney General’s office will ask a judge to order the Sheriff’s Department to destroy any remaining copies of items seized or obtained during its investigation into alleged political corruption involving an LA County Supervisor.
Villanueva claimed in a live streamed speech Wednesday that a motion filed by the Attorney General’s office in LA Superior Court demanding the destruction would be addressed at a hearing Thursday on Supervisor Sheila Kuehl’s challenge to the legality of the warrant and the underlying investigation.
“We did not ask the LA County Sheriff’s Department, or anyone else, to destroy evidence,” a spokesperson for the Attorney General’s Office told NBC4.
Villanueva said that destroying the items, including body worn video recordings, would be illegal, could be considered an obstruction of justice, and would impede his ability to defend against a possible future lawsuit over the investigation of Kuehl and repeated raids on her home and office.
Whether or not a deletion order was given, the implication here… that Villanueva was retaining the dirt on the investigation… was as subtle as a fart in a Taco Bell bathroom. And then he made threats that touching it would be a crime.
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“His legacy will be that he was the Donald Trump 2.0,” said Chiquita Twyman, an activist whose brother Ryan Twyman was killed by deputies in 2019, leading to criminal charges against an officer.
Dem po’ joggers.
Villanueva – who is Puerto Rican and the first Spanish speaker to be sheriff of LA, a county that is roughly 50% Latino – has spread racist tropes about crime, questioning why the media wasn’t doing more to cover “Black people killing Black people”.
“Us Black and brown people were making progress coming together and building bridges, but Villanueva came in and made it worse,” Twyman said.
Let me say here that 1. Latinos and blacks hate each other and 2. Latinos got away with ethnic cleansing entire neighborhoods of blacks in Los Angeles.
Alas, that accusation that the Sheriff wanted to be Trump 2.0 turned out to be correct. Like Orange Man, Villanueva faced the necessity of Crossing the Rubicon… and gave up.
LA Sheriff Villanueva concedes race for reelection
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Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva accepted defeat in his pursuit for a second four-year term in the top law enforcement spot to Robert Luna on Tuesday.
Villanueva, who had a reputation for defying police defunders and vaccine mandates, conceded to his opponent during a press conference where he faulted the county for its negotiation methodology before thanking his staff.
The LA County Registrar-Recorder website posted live results from the election, and as of Tuesday, Luna had received 60 percent of the vote and Villanueva had 40 percent.
Most reports say he lost by 70-30. A final number will never be had. Because Villanueva conceded, it doesn’t even matter if vote fraud occurred. There’s nothing to investigate when one side voluntarily gives up. He needed to call the election fraudulent… California’s elections are less secure than North Korea’s… but he decided to “respect the will of the people”.
But that’s not the half of it:
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Los Angeles County Measure A was on the ballot as a referral in Los Angeles County on November 8, 2022. It was approved [70%-30%].
The early pattern of Commiefornia vote fraud, now that it’s 100% mail-in ballot with no independent observation possible, is to target a statistically comfortable 55-45 margin in most cases, but with a 70-30 margin when sending a message. Such as Newsom surviving the recall election despite hostility from his own Secretary of State.
A “yes” vote supported allowing the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, by a four-fifths vote, to remove the sheriff from office for cause, which is defined to include: violation of laws related to the sheriff’s duties; repeated neglect of the sheriff’s duties; misuse of public funds or properties; willful falsification of documents; or obstruction of an investigation into the department’s conduct.
They didn’t just get rid of an off-the-plantation Sheriff. They changed the law so they can get rid of him unilaterally if he investigates County officials for corruption. Or even defends himself from their accusations.
What a discouraging, ignominious end to a surprisingly honorable Sheriff. Making it worse was the fact that Satan’s victory lap had bodies on it:
25 Los Angeles County sheriff’s recruits hit by vehicle during run, critically injuring 5
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WHITTIER, Calif. — An SUV traveling on the wrong side of the road struck 25 Los Angeles County sheriff’s academy recruits on a training run around dawn Wednesday, critically injuring five of them, authorities said.
Sheriff Alex Villanueva said the range of the most serious injuries included head trauma, broken bones and “loss of limb.” The trainees included recruits for the Sheriff’s Department and several local police agencies.
This conflict started when Villanueva tried to protect his men from the vaxxes, police defundings and staged race riots. This is how it ended. Because he accepted defeat.
The crash investigation is being handled by the California Highway Patrol and “so far, it looks like it’s an accident, a horrific accident,” Villanueva said.
CHP Assistant Chief Charlie Sampson said about 75 recruits were running in formation northbound in the street when the southbound vehicle veered into the opposing lane and struck the victims.
Sampson said all possibilities, ranging from an intentional act to impaired driving, will be investigated.
The driver was only identified as a 22-year-old man from suburban Diamond Bar. The sheriff said a field sobriety test on the driver was negative. County Fire Department spokesperson Capt. Sheila Kelliher said the driver also had a minor injury.
One week after Villanueva conceded, a car driving on the wrong side of the road takes out half a platoon of his recruits. That’s not a DUI. That’s a message.
How do I know this was an intentional hit?
Wrong-way driver released after crashing into 25 police recruits out for a run
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By Emily Shapiro, Alex Stone, and Meredith Deliso, 18 November 2022
A man who was arrested after plowing his car into dozens of police recruits who were out for a run in Los Angeles County early Wednesday has now been released as an investigation into the incident continues, officials said.
The driver, 22-year-old Nicholas Gutierrez, was arrested for suspicion of attempted murder on a peace officer, the sheriff’s department said on Thursday. He was later released from the LA County jail “due to the extreme complexity of the investigation, which includes ongoing interviews, video surveillance review, and additional evidence needed to be analyzed,” the LA County Sheriff’s Department said Friday.
The driver was released without bail the day after being charged with the attempted murder of 25 Sheriff deputies. That might be unprecedented. More than that, he was charged with intentional harm but then released because nobody could prove intent. Why not just charge him with causing negligent harm? If I run over one single person, I don’t get to skate jail because “oops I didn’t mean to”.
And if he doesn’t face at least a civil suit for damages over this, then I’ll be proven right.
I don’t have a link but I watched the video. As you might expect from one car hitting no fewer than 25 people, Gutierrez plowed into the column head-on from a parallel lane. That’s TWO turns of the wheel. Had he fallen asleep and drifted across lanes as claimed, he would have gone through them at an angle.
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One of the 25 Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department recruits struck by a wrong-way driver in Whittier last week “has suffered setbacks that have left him in grave condition,” the agency announced late Sunday. Four of the injured LASD recruits remain in critical condition at a local hospital, while the remaining victims have been released.
Fortunately, no fatalities yet.
Alexandra Kazarian, Gutierrez’s attorney, described her client as an electrical engineer who comes from a “proud law enforcement family.” She said her client leaves for work at 5 a.m.
This ‘accident’ happening so quickly after Villanueva agreed to give up was already stretching credulity. But now, the perp turns out to be LAPD family. It would have been too much had the perp been an actual police officer… so their cousin did it, knowing his blue buddies would protect him.
Remember how Villanueva’s accusers constantly accused him of deputy gangs? THIS is what a police gang would do.
Los Angeles police were the first law enforcement agency to be compromised. It happened with the Rodney King incident and the following consent decree, and now they’re so corrupt, the person selected to replace Villanueva is a retired Long Beach police chief. Long Beach being part of Los Angeles and definitely in the circle of corruption. LASD not yet being converged, there is clear potential for rivalry here, and it would be “by any means necessary”-level rivalry on LAPD’s side. They can’t afford to live next to an honest Sheriff.
Gotta send a message, y’know?
The attorney denied claims that her client was ever interested in a career in law enforcement, but said his father is a retired corrections officer, and his relatives work for the Los Angeles Police Department, California Highway Patrol and Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department.
Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva said Wednesday that 75 recruits from Sheriff’s Academy Class 464 had been running near the intersection of Mills Avenue and Telegraph Road in Whittier, just before 6:30 a.m., when they were struck. The group was tailed by a pair of police vehicles, and some runners were wearing reflective vests.
The SUV then plowed into a light pole before coming to a stop.
Scripture tells us “resist the devil and he will flee from you.” Scripture doesn’t tell us “if you give up then the devil will be emboldened to do worse.” But it’s just as true.
One last comment regarding those “deputy gangs”. Specifically, how high of a priority it truly is with Villanueva’s critics:
L.A. County sheriff’s deputy charged with assaulting handcuffed shoplifting suspect
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By Summer Lin, 2 December 2022
A Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy was charged with assaulting a shoplifting suspect with a Taser stun gun nearly two years ago, prosecutors announced this week.
“Those who are sworn to protect our communities are required to make ethical decisions within the confines of the law,” Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. George Gascón said in a news release. “But when they resort to using unreasonable and excessive force to exact revenge rather than in self-defense, their actions break the law that they are supposed to uphold. My office will hold them accountable for their actions.”
Deputy Hiraudi Lopez-Romero, 29, was responding on Dec. 14, 2020, to a shoplifting call in the area of the Blue Line train station in Compton, according to the news release. A male suspect resisted going into the police car and was pepper-sprayed.
The man started kicking inside the car as he was being taken to a hospital to be treated and broke one of the windows, officials said.
Lopez-Romero allegedly stopped the car, got out of the vehicle and used a Taser on the man, who was handcuffed, while he was in the car, officials said.
I tried to find an article about that incident but nothing. Tasering a psycho breaking out of a police cruiser could go either way, justified restraint or yet another female officer running out of adrenaline, resulting in panicked fight-or-flight behavior.
She was charged with a felony count of assault under color of authority and is scheduled to be arraigned Jan. 31, according to the news release.
The case is being investigated by the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department’s Internal Criminal Investigations Bureau.
The perp’s name and race not being revealed, combined with the timing of the event for the later part of 2020’s BLM riots, combined with the event being Soros toady Gascon’s choice of victory lap, is convincing enough for me: she was (plausibly) in the right, blacktivists wanted to use her for a “this is why cops must be defunded” photo op and Villanueva refused to throw his deputy to the media wolves.
But but but what about those deputy gangs? After all those complaints about deputy gangs, they’re going after a female officer trying to control a violent man? Whether Lopez was right or wrong, her incident was not an example of gang activity. And isn’t there a more recent incident than two years ago?
It was never about Sheriff gangs. It was about the Sheriff unmasking the Los Angeles gov’t gang. Now that Villanueva conceded, it’s open season on the deputies that he protected.
I never knew it was this bad in LA. And how did they get the authority to remove an elected sheriff?