Sunday on Last Week Tonight, John Oliver tore into Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva, who is facing an election this year amid allegations of secret deputy gangs, abuse of power and cover …
, who is facing an election this year amid allegations of secret deputy gangs, abuse of power and cover ups in his department — all of which Villanueva denies.in the L.A. Times that he directed a cover-up of an incident where one of his deputies knelt on a detainee’s head for three minutes. It is a damning story about abuse of power and lack of transparency, and Villanueva took swift action against those responsible…for everyone finding out about it.
Today, Villanueva doubled down on his assessment when asked if he thought the leak was worse than the conduct on display in the video. After at first calling the comparison “apples and oranges,” the L.A. Sheriff said, “one’s at the deputy line level and the other is a higher level , and it’s probably more serious.” Villanueva called deputies kneeling on an inmate’s head “a split-second decision,” whereas he said, “The decision to do a leak, that’s a calculated, deliberate decision. That’s the difference between mistakes of the mind and mistakes of the heart.
Asked to clarify if he was saying the decision to kneel on a man’s neck was a “mistake of the heart,” Villanueva replied, “No…” before his communications team cut off Spectrum News SoCal reporter Kate Cagle’s line of questioning.“The decision to do a leak, that’s a calculated, deliberate decision. That’s the difference between mistakes of the mind and mistakes of the heart.”
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