I'm Cerise Castle, and this is a tradition of violence. In the lead-up to the primary election on June 2nd,

I'm sitting down with all of the candidates for sheriff. The race hasn't really been covered,

and it's important that voters have a full picture of who's running. Today I'm going to be speaking

with Oscar Martinez, a lieutenant at the Palmdale station. Oscar is a proponent of the constitutional

sheriff's movement, which fals proponent of the constitutional sheriff's

movement, which falsely asserts that local sheriff's power supersedes that of local government,

state and federal legislatures, even the authority of the president of the United States.

Oscar is running on an extremely conservative platform. He promises to implement more

cooperation with federal immigration

authorities and introduce AI across the department. He wants to see the department cut down its use of force

policy in favor of something resembling what he used as a Marine in a war zone. He said he would

fight lawsuits brought against the department in spite of an elevated cost to taxpayers.

Oscar told me he has never seen any deputy gangs in that he doubts the validity of families who

have been harassed by deputies. And he even told me that deputies have the right to have swastika

tattoos. A conversation is an illuminating look at some of the ideas that are percolating

within the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.

We'll find out in June if they're taking route across the county.

I'm here in Santa Clarita Central Park with Oscar Martinez, candidate for sheriff.

Thank you so much for joining me this morning.

Thank you so much for being here. So to start off, I'd love to hear about your law enforcement career and what prompted you to run for sheriff?

So I started my adult career.

I left the seminary. I left the seminary, went to the United States Marine Corps, where I served for eight years in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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