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 an LAPD investigations into the race discrimination complaint of one of the officers.
Officers Derrick Boykins, who is Black, and Jonathan Pacheco are the plaintiffs in the Los Angeles Superior Court whistleblower lawsuit in which they seek unspecified damages. Both officers also want to obtain the complaint face sheet and the complete witness interviews in audio or transcript form the LAPD’s Internal Affairs conducted in response to their lawsuit.
A hearing on the plaintiffs’ motion is scheduled July 27 before Judge Teresa A. Beaudet. If the judge grants the motion, she will conduct an in-chambers inspection of the relevant records on a subsequent date and decide which, if any, should be turned over to the officers’ attorneys.
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...
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