the officers claimed they were victims of the gangs with mishaps department known as the banditos and the sheriff department routinely hired gang members targeted and terrorized young latino deputies. the gangs members brand themselves with matching tattoos of a skeleton wearing a sombrero and bandolier and carrying a pistol as seen here in a picture provided to fox news by a source familiar with the legal claim. unsuitable 20th last year according to that claim a group of deputies, all members of the banditos surrounded and beat several other non-gang member deputies including one who was, quote, nearly strangled to death as he was choked out more than once and punched in the face by the gang and another who was, quote, savagely attacked by the gang and assaulted, sucker punched and knocked unconscious, then jumped on while he was unconscious on the ground. the claim also alleges that the banditos gained deliberately