Four L.A. County supervisors call for the resignation of probation chief Adolfo Gonzales after The Times publishes video of violent restraint of teen.
A majority of the L.A. County Board of Supervisors and members of an oversight panel called for the ouster of the head of the Probation Department this week aftershowing staff at a juvenile facility violently restraining a teenage boy.
The video, which The Times released earlier this month, depicts five probation officers piling on top of a 17-year-old and holding him by his neck after an argument inside Camp Kilpatrick in Malibu in October 2020. The teen, who said he was hungry and got into an argument with the officers about access to food, screamed in pain but did not appear to be resisting when a supervisor at the camp, Oscar Cross, grabbed his legs.
Mitchell said she also supports Gonzales resigning, according to her spokesperson Lenée Richards. Barger said she believes a shake-up is needed in the leadership of a department plagued by “chronic understaffing” and “abysmal conditions” for youth. “This incident makes me question and doubt whether Chief Gonzales and Chief Deputy Fletcher should continue leading this department,” she wrote in a statement.Gonzales, the former chief probation officer in San Diego County, has been in office for a little over two years in L.A. County.
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