I don't always admire our L.A. County Sheriff but he has impressed the schit out of me this time. We had a tragic murder this week of a young, off-duty LAPD officer during the course of a street robbery. It happened in an unincorporated area of south LA patrolled by the LASD, (County Sheriff Dept).
First off, they very quickly apprehended suspects who turned out to be the robbers. Then, they somehow got them to basically confess...I don't know how to explain that one. Huge leverage, I guess...security video captured the entire crime, etc. No way out and they all started ratting on each other(?)
The best part by far was what the Sheriff did. We have a worthless, POS elected DA in Los Angeles right now who is the epitome of no bail/no enhancement charges/etc., so the Sheriff somehow bypassed him and got the U.S. Attorney to file on these mutts. Federal charges mean that at the best, (for them), they will spend the rest of their lives in a Supermax prison but hopefully get the death penalty. Unlike CA., where a death sentence means sitting on death row until you die of old age, the Feds will kill them and relatively quickly. This is justice.
Any plea agreement would be to spare their lives and be locked in a concrete room for 23 hours a day for the next 60 years. They are all young, two are around 20.
Bravo, Sheriff Villanueva!!
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-01-13/federal-prosecutors-charge-four-with-killing-off-duty-lapd-officer