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A Tradition of Violence
A Tradition of Violence
4.7 • 540 Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2022
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Currently, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department is headed by Alex Villanueva. He’s billed himself as a progressive democrat, but his administration has denied the existence of deputy gangs existence, defied subpoenas and met with right wing extremists.
A Tradition of Violence is hosted and executive produced by Cerise Castle. She's an award winning journalist who wrote the first ever history of deputy gangs for Knock LA, available at lasdgangs.com
Music by Yelohill and Steelz.
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| 0:00.0 | Warning, this podcast contains explicit language and details acts of violence. |
| 0:05.2 | Listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:08.0 | The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is currently run by a guy named Alex Villanueva. |
| 0:13.9 | The overwhelming majority of deputy-involved shootings, office-involved shootings nationwide are justified. Remember, the L.A. Metro Board, |
| 0:23.5 | and the board of supervise and city council are one and the same. This sentence is just |
| 0:29.1 | really summarizes the entire problem with this woke political establishment, who happens to |
| 0:34.8 | have the reins of county and city government right now. You know, I'm a lifelong Democrat, but what I'm looking at now is a shambles of a party |
| 0:43.3 | that's a party of excuses, of nepotism, cronyism, of I guess we should call it a white privilege, |
| 0:51.3 | but it's not a party that represents the interests of the Latino community. |
| 0:55.6 | Sir, why don't you arrest the clown Newsom? Well, no, we don't arrest anybody that has not |
| 1:00.2 | committed a crime. Now, voters can hold people accountable if they don't do their job. That's |
| 1:05.2 | very different. Villanueva is known for voicing support for violence, threatening journalists like me, |
| 1:11.6 | and degrading the victims and families of police violence. |
| 1:15.6 | He's been accused of being racist and met with white supremacists. |
| 1:20.6 | He's brought back deputies fired from misconduct and promoted deputy gang members to senior leadership. |
| 1:26.6 | He's used his office to carry out his own political agenda, and promoted deputy gang members to senior leadership. |
| 1:31.0 | He's used his office to carry out his own political agenda and used the criminal justice system to go after his enemies |
| 1:34.9 | while defying subpoenas. |
| 1:37.0 | He's up for re-election next week, |
| 1:39.2 | and somehow, despite all of this, |
| 1:41.7 | finished first in the primary. |
| 1:48.0 | LA is not safe. This is a tradition of violence, a history of deputy gangs inside the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. To understand what's at stake in this upcoming election, it's important to look into |
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