On Thursday evening, April 7, Inspector General Max Huntsman and his office issued a new subpoena ordering Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva to appear at the Office of the Inspector General to be questioned regarding the now notorious March 10, 2021, incident involving LASD deputy Deputy Douglass Johnson who, in the course of attempting to subdue and handcuff a man named Enzo Escalante in the in the holding area of the San Fernando Courthouse, put his knee on Escalante’s head as the man lay on the floor, then reportedly kept his knee there for more than three minutes after the man had stopped struggling. All of this was captured on video, and months later the video was leaked to the LA Times.
The subpoena requires the sheriff to show up at 10 a.m., on Friday April 22, 2022. However, the subpoena also stipulates that Villanueva doesn’t have to actually appear if he instead sends over the stack of records listed in the subpoena having to do with the matter of the head-kneeling by Deputy Johnson, and the reported cover-up of the incident by the sheriff, and other department members.
The specific documents on the head-kneeling matter required by the subpoena are the following:
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