LA Sheriff's Deputies for men's jail part of a gang called "3000 Boys"
Investigators documented the broken tooth, nose, bruises, contusions and muscle damage that former inmate Evans Tutt says he received at the hands of several Sheriff's deputies.
"I complied with everything
KTLA Investigation Reveals Details of Gang-Like Clique Within Men's Central Jail
Investigators documented the broken tooth, nose, bruises, contusions and muscle damage that former inmate Evans Tutt says he received at the hands of several Sheriff's deputies.
"I complied with everything the deputy said. I don't want any problems because I know how the deputies get down in their module," Tutt said in an interview with Sheriff's investigators obtained exclusively by KTLA.
"I got repeatedly kicked, and hit, with flashlights, and whatever deputies could hit me with," Tutt recounted.
They're entrusted with upholding the law, but cases like Tutt's serve as proof that the infamous "3,000 Boys," a group of rogue Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies, have been exhibiting the same gang-like behavior and criminal activity as the jailed inmates they're guarding.
Tutt spent 11 days in the hospital after deputies charged him with resisting an officer. His attorney, Public Defender Daryne Nicole, said the department wanted to make an example of him.
"My client had been complaining about conditions in the jail, and they wanted to show him that it's their house, and they run it," Nicole told KTLA.
The case against Tutt was eventually dismissed. He's now embroiled in a civil rights suit against the department.
At least three of the deputies involved in Tutt's case are part of a group who call themselves the "3,000 Boys."
The group, assigned to the third level of Men's Central Jail, are identified by a gang-like hand sign holding up three fingers and tattoos of barcodes and the number "3,000" on the back of their necks.
Attorney Michael Gennaco, whose L.A. County Office of Independent Review oversees Sheriff misconduct issues, told KTLA that the group clearly exhibits signs of the gangs they preside over.
"The emulation or adoption of some of the signals of gang members is unsettling." Gennaco said. "I think it suggests that a group of individuals within the jail... have lost their way."
The group was thrust into the media spotlight after several of their members became involved in a violent fight during a department Christmas party last December.
About 100 guests, including sheriff's supervisors, had attended the party at the Quiet Cannon Restaurant.
As the night was winding down near midnight, Montebello police received an anonymous 911 call reporting violence in the parking lot.
"They're sheriffs?" the dispatcher asks.
"Yeah," the caller responds. "And they're fighting downstairs."
"Three of them held one guy down while another one beat him," the calls further recount.
When Montebello officers arrived, they were told the combatants were deputies. No one was arrested that night.
Deputies beaten up that night filed a criminal complaint against the group, launching an internal investigation that has landed 6 still unidentified officers in the hot seat.
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The LA sheriff's Department has been wild for years They're much worse than the LAPD ever was. I forgot dudes SN but we have a LSA member who's a LA county Sheriff's Deputy
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The LA county Sheriffs dept needs an overhaul & investigation from top to bottom. This "3000 gang" plus the whole situation that went down in the Mitrice Richardson case are clear examples of why.
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our city police are known to not get along with the county sheriff... wonder if this is a nationwide trend..
Proboly Since sheriff's are elected officals they're way more political than City cops so there's an automatic beef with especially over jurisdiction and the like besides in most cities Sheriff's deputy's are seen municipal officals in the since of them handling evictions serving court orders writting tickets and running the county lock ups.
The old Roscoe P. Coltrane deputy dog sterotype dies hard.
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LA Sheriff's Deputies for men's jail part of a gang called "3000 Boys"
Like I've been said, LA is a freaking trip!
KTLA Investigation Reveals Details of Gang-Like Clique Within Men's Central Jail
The group was thrust into the media spotlight after several of their members became involved in a violent fight during a department Christmas party last December
LOS ANGELES (KTLA) -- Investigators documented the broken tooth, nose, bruises, contusions and muscle damage that former inmate Evans Tutt says he received at the hands of several Sheriff's deputies.
"I complied with everything the deputy said. I don't want any problems because I know how the deputies get down in their module," Tutt said in an interview with Sheriff's investigators obtained exclusively by KTLA.
"I got repeatedly kicked, and hit, with flashlights, and whatever deputies could hit me with," Tutt recounted.
They're entrusted with upholding the law, but cases like Tutt's serve as proof that the infamous "3,000 Boys," a group of rogue Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies, have been exhibiting the same gang-like behavior and criminal activity as the jailed inmates they're guarding.
Tutt spent 11 days in the hospital after deputies charged him with resisting an officer. His attorney, Public Defender Daryne Nicole, said the department wanted to make an example of him.
"My client had been complaining about conditions in the jail, and they wanted to show him that it's their house, and they run it," Nicole told KTLA.
The case against Tutt was eventually dismissed. He's now embroiled in a civil rights suit against the department.
At least three of the deputies involved in Tutt's case are part of a group who call themselves the "3,000 Boys."
The group, assigned to the third level of Men's Central Jail, are identified by a gang-like hand sign holding up three fingers and tattoos of barcodes and the number "3,000" on the back of their necks.
Attorney Michael Gennaco, whose L.A. County Office of Independent Review oversees Sheriff misconduct issues, told KTLA that the group clearly exhibits signs of the gangs they preside over.
"The emulation or adoption of some of the signals of gang members is unsettling." Gennaco said. "I think it suggests that a group of individuals within the jail... have lost their way."
The group was thrust into the media spotlight after several of their members became involved in a violent fight during a department Christmas party last December.
About 100 guests, including sheriff's supervisors, had attended the party at the Quiet Cannon Restaurant.
As the night was winding down near midnight, Montebello police received an anonymous 911 call reporting violence in the parking lot.
"They're sheriffs?" the dispatcher asks.
"Yeah," the caller responds. "And they're fighting downstairs."
"Three of them held one guy down while another one beat him," the calls further recount.
When Montebello officers arrived, they were told the combatants were deputies. No one was arrested that night.
Deputies beaten up that night filed a criminal complaint against the group, launching an internal investigation that has landed 6 still unidentified officers in the hot seat.
Attorney Peter Eliasberg's of the American Civil Liberties Union has represented scores of inmates in abuse cases at Men's Central Jail and hopes that the recent incident will shed light on a problem of violence he's been working to expose for years.
"The highest level of use of force incidents in Men's Central Jail over the past four years occurred on the 3rd floor," Eliasberg said, referring to the floor the group is assigned to.
"The fact that they are beating up their friends and colleagues... is a pretty strong indicator that... in the jails, they have a tremendous amount of power [and] are highly likely to be beating up the prisoners."
County Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore conceded that the incident at the Quiet Cannon Restaurant in Montebello was a black mark against the department.
"This, by any measure, was unacceptable," Whitmore told KTLA of the department's response to the incident.
"Do we sometimes make mistakes [and] respond in a way that is not appropriate? The answer is regrettably yes," Whitmore said.
"Do we immediately rectify, investigate [and] take appropriate action? Absolutely."
As a result of an internal probe consisting of more than 150 interviews, the six deputies involved in the fight have been suspended without pay. The pending terminations marks one of the largest disciplinary actions in the department's history.
In response to the incident, the department has also increased rotations for deputies in the jail to deter deputies from forming gang-like allegiances.
The incident has now be transferred to the District Attorney's office for possible criminal prosecution.
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KTLA Special Report: 'The Gang Behind the Badge?' Part Two
An investigation into the LA County Sheriff's Department secret subgroup who call themselves "The 3000 Boys."
KTLA News
10:59 p.m. PDT, May 4, 2011
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FULLERTON (KTLA) -- On a busy party night at the popular 'Slidebar' nightspot in Fullerton, the bar's surveillance cameras record bouncer Chris Barton, trying to clear the bar at closing time, just before 2 a.m.
Most of the bar patrons file out willingly. But a few...do not.
Barton identifies them in the surveillance video, obtained exclusively by KTLA News. He says three customers who refuse to leave are LA County Sheriff's deputies.
One of them in particular resists Barton's requests to leave. Barton says he is deputy David Ortega, and he is becoming belligerent.
"He tells us he's an LA County Sheriff's deputy," Barton says, referring to the images on the surveillance tape. "He says he has right to be here, he's a cop, and it doesn't matter what we say or what laws are. He's a police officer, and if he wants to do something, he can do it."
Barton says Ortega quickly becomes combative with him. "He tells me he wants to fight me," Barton says. "He's like, 'I want you to throw the first punch, throw the first punch.' I said no, go home. He's like, 'What happens if I spit on you?"
Then Barton shows the moment on the surveillance tape when, he says, Ortega spits in his face. Barton says Ortega spits on him a total of three times. Then, Barton says, Ortega threatens him in the name of his "3000 Boys," a group of close-knit sheriff's deputies who, some say, function like a street gang themselves. They sport similar tattoos, they flash gang-like signs, and they've been linked to violence both inside and outside the Men's Central Jail where they work.
"He said that him and his boys, the 3000 Boys, or the 3000 Block, are going to take care of me," Barton recalls. "He said he was going to beat the crap out of me, and leave me in a pool of my own blood, leave me there to die."
Barton and his staff manage to get Ortega outside the bar, but Barton says Ortega's threats continue.
"At that time he decides to say he's going to shoot us," Barton says. "So he reaches behind his back, like he's going for a gun. That's when myself and another bouncer tackle him."
Liuckily, Ortega does not have a gun. Barton says he was bluffing.
Fullerton police arrested the sheriff's deputy, and charged him with four counts: assualt, battery, fighting, and making a terrorist threat.
As a result of the Fullerton incident, Ortega was demoted in the Sheriff's Department. He pled no contest to one of the charges, and served probation. Today he is still working in the Men's Central Jail. (Yeah, that's how you "punish" rogue cops. Let's hear it for the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department!! )
And more than a year after the Fullerton arrest, Ortega was among a group of "3000 Boys" deputies who allegedly beat inmate Evans Tutt on the third floor of Men's Central Jail. Tutt's injuries at the hands of Ortega and the other deputies put him in the hospital for 11 days. The deputies said Tutt was resisting. Tutt said the attack was unprovoked.
Chris Barton says he is shocked that Ortega still has a job with the L.A. County Sheriff's Department. Barton concedes he has concerns about retaliation by the "3000 Boys" since he came forward with his story. But Barton says it's worth it, if his story can help bring change to the Sheriff's Department.
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"He tells us he's an LA County Sheriff's deputy," Barton says, referring to the images on the surveillance tape. "He says he has right to be here, he's a cop, and it doesn't matter what we say or what laws are. He's a police officer, and if he wants to do something, he can do it."
Typical, cops love to abuse their power. Someone remind these pigs they were hired to enforce the laws; no one lives above the law.
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This just speaks to a larger problem within the United States regarding the police. The general culture of the 'boys in blue' (sounds like a gang, right?) is the they do feel and that they are above the law and really they are. They do what they want when they want, to whomever they want, with little or no punishment when caught.
I'm not naive for one second to believe that this 'gang within a gang' syndrome is only contained only within the state of California. If it's happening there know that it's happening elsewhere.
Now, they are out of hand, beating on each other? Were they 'jumping' someone into their gang or something? The time will come when just abusing their power in certain places on certain people 'read minorities', will not be enough and they'll start persecuting the whites widespread, then they'll pay attention to police abuse, but it'll be too little too late. Should have listened before, but oh, we minorities were just 'whining'.
I forsee a time when that gang and racist culture will turn inward and you'll see gangs of white police vs. minority police. That's when the whole system will implode and lawlessness will abound.
This is what happens when you continually put a band aid on a festering cancerous wound. It ends up devouring itself until the host (system) dies.
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Bet not one of them will go to jail.
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