As of Wednesday, May 11, a fourth whistleblower from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has come forward to file a civil rights claim that disputes major parts of the story Sheriff Alex Villanueva has repeatedly told regarding the cover up of the now notorious case involving a deputy who knelt for an extended period of time on the neck and head of a handcuffed man who was in jail awaiting trial.
The claim, filed by attorney Alan Romero for LASD Captain Angela Walton, not only describes her knowledge and experience of events surrounding the handling of the case of Deputy Douglass Johnson kneeling on the neck and head of Enzo Escalante, Walton also has a string of emails and other documented communication that backs up her statements, many of which directly contradict those of the sheriff.
Here’s the deal.
It was on August 16, 2021, when Captain Angela Walton first learned of the existence of a video of a deputy under her command leaning on the head and neck of inmate Enzo Escalante, a use of force incident that occurred on March 10, 2021.
Walton didn’t learn of the matter until last August 16, as that was Walton’s first day on the job after being transferred to Court Services Division, which meant that Deputy Douglass was under her command.
Prior to the transfer to Court Services, Captain Walton had been the commanding officer of LA County’s trouble-haunted women’s jail, Century Regional Detention Center or CRDF, where she had been praised for cleaning up some of...
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