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Sign up for the Morning Brief, delivered weekdays. Subscribe Calling Sheriff Alex Villanueva “the Donald Trump of L.A. County,” LAX Police Chief Cecil Rhambo Monday announced he will challenge the incumbent in next year’s election. Before becoming airport chief in 2019, Rhambo spent 33 years with the Sheriff’s Department, rising to assistant sheriff. Rhambo, 62, may be Villanueva’s toughest challenger yet, given his resume. He’s hired a veteran Democratic strategy firm to run his campaign. Four other people have registered as candidates in what is expected to be a crowded field against the embattled Villanueva. If elected, Rhambo would become L.A.’s first Black and first Korean American sheriff. He clearly intends to use his race and ethnicity during the campaign. “I’ve been a Black and Asian man long before I was a cop, so I know what it’s like to walk down the street as a person of color,” Rhambo said in his ....
The sight of an officer holding his knee on George Floyd s neck for more than nine minutes until he died from asphyxiation triggered nationwide protests in 2020. It wasn t the first time there was national outrage about a Black American being killed by police (see: Stephon Clark, Philando Castile, Freddie Gray, the list goes on). But it was the first time that the talk of police reform moved beyond incremental steps to include widespread, mainstreamdiscussions about foundational change. Support for LAist comes from Suddenly, officials were talking about ideas once considered beyond the pale like defunding police departments and ending qualified immunity for officers. ....
(AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File) Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon wants to hire a special prosecutor to review and re-evaluate police shootings with questionable use of force. On Friday, he sent an official letter to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors requesting approval to hire former Federal Prosecutor Lawrence Middleton. Things have progressed in the hiring process to the point that Gascón sent an official letter to the members of the county’s Board of Supervisors, asking for their authorization to hire Middleton for a four year contract, with options to extend. “To promote public confidence in the decision-making process and the outcome of any such investigations,” he wrote to the board members, “the DA has determined the need for a Special Prosecutor to reevaluate, and if the facts support it, to criminally prosecute any officers whose actions unlawfully caused the death of the victims in those cases.” ....
The Jump Out Boys’ creed hailed their members as a brotherhood of Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies who were foremost loyal to one another. The typed manifesto, found in the trunk of a patrol car, said members understood “when the line needs to be crossed and crossed back.” They branded themselves with matching skull tattoos, with a special detail reserved for those deputies who had been in a shooting: smoke curling up from a revolver. In 2013, seven members of the clandestine fraternity were fired, with top sheriff’s brass describing the initiation rites, symbolic tattoos and secret black book of shootings as “elements similar to those used to establish membership in a criminal gang.” Their tattoo “suggests street justice, and is associated with a rogue subculture,” the firing letters said. ....