Joseph Iniguez, chief of staff to L.A. County Dist. Atty. George Gascón, filed a federal lawsuit accusing Azusa police of violating his civil rights when they arrested him last month.
Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. George Gascón’s chief of staff filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against the Azusa Police Department, accusing officers of violating his civil rights when they arrested him last month.
The arresting officer — who is identified in the documents only as “Cpl. R. Martinez” — approached the car and said he smelled alcohol, according to the report. He asked Iniguez’s fiancé if he had been drinking and Iniguez replied that he “was the cause of the odor and he had consumed several alcoholic beverages,” according to the report.“Iniguez began to question me and give legal advice.
Officers later determined Iniguez’s fiancé's blood-alcohol content was below the legal limit to drive, and he was released without incident, said Cpl. C.J. Wilkins, the president of Azusa’s police union. Wilkins, who said he spoke directly to the arresting officer, believed the incident would have amounted to little more than a traffic citation if not for what he described as Iniguez’s “belligerent” conduct.Iniguez claimed he had done nothing wrong and said the arrest was improper.
Asked why Iniguez would not release the video, Jonas said the recording “will be released in due course, we’re not going to litigate that in the press.” Wilkins, the police union president, has also accused Iniguez of threatening to put the arresting officer on the district attorney’s so-called “Brady List,” which contains officers with problematic disciplinary histories whose testimony might be challenged or impeached in a trial. The name is a reference to a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that requires prosecutors to turn over evidence favorable to a defendant, including evidence of police misconduct.
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