Imagine A Cop Threatening To Put A Bullet In Your Chest As You Sit In Your Car Unarmed…

Imagine sit­ting in your car in a strip mall on New Year’s eve, talk­ing to your fans and sub­scribers on social media. Imagine being glad that you end­ed the year and being excit­ed about the prospects for what the new year, mere hours away, will bring. When sud­den­ly, you have a gun point­ed dead in your chest and some­one threat­en­ing to put a bul­let dead in your chest if you as much as move.

If you have nev­er looked into the busi­ness end of a gun, it may be easy for you to shrug and move on. However, this was no sim­ple mat­ter for a young Los Angeles Rapper Darral Scott, also known as Feezy Lebron, on New Year’s at about 5:45 p.m. as he sat in his car on the 14900 block of Crenshaw Boulevard in Gardena.
The sad thing about what hap­pened to the young man is that civil­ian thugs did not approach him. He was approached by uni­formed thugs paid with [his] tax dol­lars. They threat­ened to end his life for absolute­ly no rea­son if he dared even to move.

“I was scared to death,” Scott said dur­ing a press con­fer­ence, “I did­n’t think I was going to make it home to see my kids. The L A Sheriff’s depart­ment is already a cesspool of crim­i­nal­i­ty, includ­ing the unlaw­ful mur­der of count­less inno­cent unarmed and even men­tal­ly inca­pac­i­tat­ed indi­vid­u­als. Additionally, the morass is report­ed to have crim­i­nal gangs of deputies who com­mit all kinds of crimes against cit­i­zens and then brag about them. Some reports indi­cate deputies wear tat­toos iden­ti­fy­ing them­selves as gang mem­bers with­in that sher­if­f’s department.

The depart­ment, in response to the inci­dent, said deputies had not­ed there was a miss­ing license plate on the vehi­cle, but body cam­era footage released by the depart­ment shows the inci­dent quick­ly esca­lat­ed, with one deputy point­ing his hand­gun into the car while Scott had his hands raised. Video shows one deputy reach­ing into the car to pull Scott out. The sec­ond deputy then approach­es the dri­ver’s side of the car and starts to shake a can of pep­per spray. “All right, I’m just gonna spray him, dude, watch out,” he tells his part­ner. “Get out or you’re get­ting sprayed.” “Get out for what?” Scott is heard ask­ing repeat­ed­ly. The deputy then pulls out his hand­gun and points it at Scott, accord­ing to the footage. “You take off in this car, I’m [gonna] shoot you,” the deputy said. “I’m going to make it super easy on you. You put this car on dri­ve; you’re get­ting one to the chest. I don’t care what you got, I don’t care if you got bull— on you but, guess what bro, now you got­ta deal with it.” Scott is hand­cuffed and detained. He was released with a tick­et for a miss­ing license plate.

Imagine approach­ing a car miss­ing a license plate, with no under­stand­ing of why the plate was miss­ing, and your first default is to draw your weapon and threat­en to shoot some­one you have nev­er seen and who has com­mit­ted no crime as far as you are aware.
The thug­gish ani­mals who threat­ened to kill the unarmed young man did so, know­ing full well that their body cams were on. Imagine the lev­el of con­fi­dence they must feel, know­ing that noth­ing will be done to them.
The way these depart­ments are run one would think L A res­i­dents are liv­ing in Mexico and not in the United States. This Sheriff’s depart­ment is a ver­i­ta­ble crim­i­nal enterprise.
According to the New Yorker, whis­tle-blow­ers say that a group called the Banditos func­tions as a shad­ow gov­ern­ment with­in local law enforce­ment. The for­mer sher­iff Alex Villanueva lied that there was no such gang in his department.
“According to a law­suit filed by eight East L.A. deputies and the A.C.L.U., the Banditos gang “con­trols the East Los Angeles sta­tion like inmates run­ning a prison yard.” Leaders, known as “shot-callers,” deter­mined deputies’ hours, pro­mo­tions, even days off. On patrol, they oper­at­ed in the gray areas of law enforce­ment. Gonzalez said that they per­pet­u­at­ed “the code of silence, the cul­ture of the ghet­to gun­slinger.” She added, “What makes East L.A. so unique is it’s embed­ded with­in the Hispanic machis­mo cul­ture and the Hispanic street gangs.”
That infor­ma­tion came from deputies who were shocked at what they saw there.

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Mike Beckles is a for­mer Police Detective, busi­ness­man, free­lance writer, black achiev­er hon­oree, and cre­ator of the blog mike​beck​les​.com.