Whistleblower loses $26 million lawsuit over LA's ‘Executioners’ deputy gang
LOS ANGELES — The testimony was alarming. For more than two weeks, jurors heard about deputy gangs, saw their tattoos and logos, learned about their inking parties and listened to witnesses talk about members’ alleged control over the sheriff’s station in Compton.
At one point, a deputy pulled up a pant leg to reveal a tattoo of a flaming skeleton gripping a rifle.
But ultimately, none of that mattered: The lawsuit itself — a $26 million whistleblower retaliation claim — was not about whether deputy gangs exist within the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, but whether one man’s opposition to the so-called Executioners was the reason he couldn’t get a coveted promotion.
In the end, the jury said it wasn’t.
On Friday morning,
