LOS ANGELES—A judge dismissed on Nov. 5 a lawsuit originally filed by a deputy in September 2020 alleging the Compton Sheriff’s Station’s life-threatening retaliation against him when he reported the criminal activities of a deputy subgroup known as the Executioners. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge William F. Fahey had previously tossed Austreberto “Art” Gonzalez’s lawsuit on Feb. 9, on grounds of procedural and legal deficiencies in Gonzalez’s complaint filing. However, Gonzalez’s attorney, Alan Romero, revived the case, saying Fahey’s previous ruling had nothing to do with the substance of the case, which was then reinstated by Fahey in March. Lawyers for Los Angeles County subsequently filed a second motion to dismiss the case in July, arguing there were no triable issues. According to the original suit Gonzalez filed in September 2020, the Marine Corps combat veteran called an anonymous tip line in February 2020 to report the “criminal activities of a deputy gang at Compton …