This morning, attorney Vincent Miller released the second complaint in a series of civil rights lawsuits brought by a string of department whistleblowers who allege they were retaliated against by Sheriff Alex Villanueva when they declined to go along with Villanueva’s self-serving and false descriptions of his actions regarding the now notorious case of Deputy Douglass Johnson, who knelt for more than three minutes on the head of jail inmate Enzo.
Each of these complaints brings with a raft of new details that directly contradict the elaborate story that the sheriff has been telling.
On Monday of this week, Miller filed a complaint in behalf of LASD Commander Allen Castellano that alleged, among other things, that Sheriff Villanueva blocked and stalled the investigation into the excessive use of force by Deputy Johnson to “avoid bad publicity for his re-election campaign.”
Yet, the plaintiff in today’s civil rights lawsuit is former LASD Assistant Sheriff Robin Limon who, according to the new lawsuit, has been retaliated against “because she has personal knowledge” of Villanueva covering up the highly problematic use of force incident by Deputy Johnson.
By “personal knowledge,” she means that, to quote Lin-Manuel Miranda, she was “in the room where it happened.”
Limon is an eyewitness. And what she saw goes far beyond the issue of the head-kneeling deputy.
We’ll get to her other personal knowledge in a minute. But first it’s important to know that, according to the...
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