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Chief of staff to L.A. sheriff resigns over 'deeply troubling' emails
Los Angeles is the second major police department in California to be
rocked by scandal involving racist and offensive messages in recent
months.
Tom Angel, the chief of staff to Los Angeles County Sheriff
Jim McDonnell, has stepped down after public records revealed that he
forwarded emails mocking minorities, Muslims, and women when he was
second in command at the police department in Burbank, Calif.Sheriff McDonnell previously said he didn’t plan to discipline Mr. Angel, but in a statement Sunday the sheriff said he had accepted Ange's resignation and called his emails “deeply troubling."
