According to LAPD spokesman, Josh Rubenstein, four officers were involved in an arrest for curfew violation on June 1 in Van Nuys, CA. This comes amid a city-wide curfew in order to combat a series of protests against police brutality. A further investigation is also ongoing in search of the reason the officers were told to remove their body cameras.
Formal charges have yet to be filed and the case is being reviewed by internal affairs.
No charges had been filed as of Tuesday, but staff in L.A. County Dist. Atty. Jackie Lacey’s Justice System Integrity Division are reviewing the four officers’ actions after being forwarded their names by LAPD internal affairs detectives, officials said Tuesday. The division investigates police misconduct.
LAPD Deputy Chief Robert Marino, who oversees internal affairs, told the Police Commission that his office had received hundreds of complaints about officers’ protest conduct via calls and emails, and that nearly 100 individual officers stood accused of some violation in total — including 55 instances of alleged excessive force.
Out of all those complaints, the LAPD has only investigated 1.
That is terrible.
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