Ex-Los Angeles Sheriff Alex Villanueva torches oversight report on alleged 'deputy gangs': 'Political hit job'
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Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva condemned the oversight commission's report on "deputy gangs" as a "political hit job" seeking to "delegitimize law enforcement."
"They're politically motivated. That's all. They don't care about the truth," Villanueva told Fox News Digital about the commission in a phone interview this week. "It’s not just defund. . . . [T]hey want to discredit and they want to delegitimize law enforcement. What better way than to say, 'Hey, they're all a bunch of crooks'? That's the implication when they're trying to accuse people of being deputy gang members without a shred of evidence. Real evidence." Danielle Wallace is a reporter for Fox News Digital covering politics, crime, police and more. Story tips can be sent to danielle.wallace@fox.com and on Twitter: @danimwallace.
Villanueva called on Special Counsel Bert Deixler, who led the county watchdog’s investigation, "to testify under oath about all the false information he provided."