Posted on 06/25/2015 7:45:01 AM PDT by redreno
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Three Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies were convicted Wednesday in federal court in the beating of a bloody, handcuffed jail visitor and an attempt to cover it up.
Sgt. Eric Gonzalez and deputies Sussie Ayala and Fernando Luviano were found guilty of deprivation of civil rights and falsification of records in the 2011 beating of Gabriel Carrillo. Gonzalez and Ayala were also convicted of conspiracy to violate constitutional rights.
The three face at least six years in prison when sentenced Nov. 2.
"An individual who carries a badge and a gun and who uses their authority and power to violate people's constitutional rights — as was the case here — is one of the worst kinds of criminals and should be brought to justice," said Assistant U.S. Attorney Lizabeth Rhodes, one of the three prosecutors on the case.
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I would rather eat a bullet than go to jail.
“Tran said he was also swayed by two other jail guards who turned on their colleagues.
Deputies Noel Womack and Pantamitr Zunggeemoge reached plea agreements with prosecutors just before trial and testified that Carrillo was handcuffed the entire beating. They said everyone agreed to tell the same lie about what happened.”
Well at least two of them they finally decided to come clean, when they realized they were facing jailtime.
If there hadn’t been enough evidence to convict, I have no doubt that everyone up and down the line would have kept their mouths shut to protect the “few bad apples”, as always.
He wasn’t even an inmate there. He was there to visit a family member when they decided to brutally assault him.
Yup. But I am saying if I was one of those deputies I would eat a bullet than go to jail.
I lived in California in the 1970’s and 1980’s.
Even back then, there were stories in the media frequently about deputy jailers forming their own gangs and beating inmates.
More evidence that LA is Mexico City del Norte. Everyone in this melee is Hispanic. Question: Isn’t it about time for a new Sheriff? Baca is caca!
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