Attorneys for two Los Angeles police officers who are suing the city, alleging they suffered a backlash for complaining that then-Police Chief Michel Moore sought Black officers to be part of newly elected Mayor Karen Bass’s protection detail in 2022, want a judge to order the release of any LAPD investigations into their internal complaints.
Officers Derrick Boykins and Jonathan Pacheco are the plaintiffs in the Los Angeles Superior Court whistleblower lawsuit in which they seek unspecified damages.
Boykins, like Bass, is Black. On Monday, their lawyers filed court papers with Judge Teresa Beaudet in advance of a Dec. 3 hearing asking that she order the release of the LAPD’s investigation into Boykins’ race discrimination complaint as well as any investigations into the officers’ internal retaliation allegations.
Boykins filed his internal race discrimination complaint in February 2023 and Pacheco was interviewed as part of the LAPD investigation, according to the officers’ attorneys’ court papers. Within months, both plaintiffs were subjected to retaliation by their supervisors, according to their lawyers’ pleadings.
In their previous court papers, lawyers for the City Attorney’s Office denied the officers’ allegations and cited multiple defenses, including violation of the statute of limitation and immunity of a public entity.
According to the suit, Pacheco was hired in 2006 and Boykins in 2010. Both are police officer 3s and are assigned to the Metropolitan Division....
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