Los Angeles Sheriff's deputies say gangs targeting "young Latinos" operate within department - CBS News

"There's been multiple occasions where … they say, 'Hey, we got a guy that has a gun and he's running from us.' In reality that person never had a gun," one deputy said. "And they would say, oh, it was a phantom gun. It was something that really wasn't there."

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