In tomorrow's edition of LewRockwell.com, Steven Greenhut writes a column, “Breaking the Code of Silence,” that ridicules what the senior Orange County Register editorial writer sees as a continued lack of ethics and decency at the sheriff's department.
At issue, according to Greenhut, is that Sheriff Sandra Hutchens and deputy union boss Wayne Quint were peeved that prosecutors told the public of documented evidence that
deputies lied under oath to protect another deputy who'd twice fired a Taser into a handcuffed, already restrained suspect sitting in the back of a patrol car.
But, says Greenhut, Hutchens and Quint didn't seem nearly as outraged by the deputies' alleged lying–even after both
received multi-hour, detailed briefings by District Attorney Tony Rackauckas and his senior staff.
Greenhut suggests that “bad behavior” by OC deputies might be more the norm than Hutchens and Quint want us to know and he praises prosecutors, especially DA spokeswoman Susan Kang Schroeder, for refusing to cover up the situation.
Read his opinion piece
HERE.
Hutchens told me and the Register's Larry Welborn that she is concerned by the DA's allegations and will, after her internal affairs unit conducts its own probe, punish any wrongdoing if she thinks it's appropriate.
–R. Scott Moxley / OC Weekly
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.
