A lawsuit was filed on behalf of a teenage girl who was allegedly body-slammed by a school resource sheriff's deputy at Lancaster High School in 2021 and later mocked by the deputy when she returned to school.
The plaintiff is identified only as Jane Doe 1 in the Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit brought Wednesday against Los Angeles County, the sheriff's department, Dep. Daniel Acquilano and the Antelope Valley Union High School District.
The complaint's allegations include civil rights violations, assault, battery, false arrest, aiding and abetting assault and battery, negligence, negligent hiring supervision, retention, training and education, intentional infliction of emotional distress and harassment based on race, sex and disability.
Doe seeks compensatory damages against all of the defendants and as well as punitive damages against Acquilano. The LASD previously released a statement explaining that Doe physically resisted the detention and so the deputy used force to take her into custody.The incident was recorded on video and occurred last Aug. 30 at Lancaster High when the girl, then 16, refused the deputy's request to hand over her cell phone and began walking away, the suit states.
"After slamming her down, he straddles her face down on the ground, while she is screaming to call her mom,'' the suit states."The video captures school personnel standing around watching the incident, failing to intervene.''
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