New LASD eyewitness Luana Haselrig speaks
Attorney Vincent Miller has just released the third in a series of civil rights lawsuits brought by whistleblowers who describe their personal knowledge of the cover-up by Sheriff Alex Villanueva regarding the now notorious case of Deputy Douglass Johnson.
Johnson, if readers will remember, is the deputy who knelt for more than three minutes on the neck and head of a jail inmate named Enzo Escalante.
In addition, all of the three whistleblowers tell how they were on the receiving end of career-wrecking retaliations by the sheriff when they declined to go along with Villanueva’s self-serving and provably false descriptions of when he first became aware of the alarming video showing Deputy Johnson’s kneeling on the handcuffed Escalante’s neck, and whether or not he initiated a cover-up to keep knowledge of the video from the press and the public.
Each of these complaints brings with it a raft of new details that directly contradict the elaborate story that the sheriff has been telling.
Early last week, attorney Miller filed a complaint on behalf of LASD Commander Allen Castellano who alleged, among other things, that Sheriff Villanueva blocked and stalled the investigation into the Deputy Johnson/Escalante incident to “avoid bad publicity for his re-election campaign.”
Next came the civil rights complaint of former LASD Assistant Sheriff Robin Limon who told how she had been retaliated against “because she has personal knowledge”...
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