On August 4, according to Sheriff Alex Villanueva, the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department got a subpoena, or multiple subpoenas, asking for the LASD to turn over records pertaining to the now notorious case of Deputy Douglass Johnson, who knelt for more than three minutes on the head and neck of jail resident Enzo Escalante, when Escalante was handcuffed and no longer resisting.
According to WitnessLA’s sources, in recent days, a list of whistleblowers plus other members of the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department—working and retired— also received subpoenas to testify before an investigative grand jury, which is probing the issue of the head-kneeling deputy cover-up scandal.
The grand jury reportedly began hearing testimony on Thursday.
Meanwhile, on Tuesday of this week one of those whistleblowers, former Assistant Chief Robin Limon, filed a new and damning civil rights claim, which describes in detail much of the sequence of events that the grand jury is reportedly exploring.
The 49-page legal filing, written by Limon’s attorney, Vincent Miller, is a handy document to have right now, as it walks the reader step-by-step through the alleged cover-up of the Deputy Johnson/Enzo Escalante case.
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