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Angeles sheriff's deputies apparently desperate for a group
sadomasochistic, homosexual experience have been accused of pulling a
jail inmate out of his cell, yanking down his underwear to expose his
genitals and pepper-spraying the man's penis and anus, according to a
story by Robert Faturechi of the Times. Not surprised? Right,
well, sexually-demented deputies obviously is not the breaking news
here. Here's what is: Sheriff Lee Baca says he will no longer wait for a
district attorney's office probe into such complaints because the DA's
office is lazy or uninterested. Baca's says he's going to do his own internal affairs investigation. The deputies' union objects.
CNN-featured investigative reporter R. Scott Moxley has won Journalist of the Year honors at the Los Angeles Press Club; been named Distinguished Journalist of the Year by the LA Society of Professional Journalists; obtained one of the last exclusive prison interviews with Charles Manson disciple Susan Atkins; won inclusion in Jeffrey Toobin’s The Best American Crime Reporting for his coverage of a white supremacist’s senseless murder of a beloved Vietnamese refugee; launched multi-year probes that resulted in the FBI arrests and convictions of the top three ranking members of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department; and gained praise from New York Times Magazine writers for his “herculean job” exposing entrenched Southern California law enforcement corruption.