Two Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies put a person in a headlock and repeatedly punched him within the head outdoors his dwelling in East Los Angeles, in line with his household.
Deputies wrestled 34-year-old Alejandro Hernandez to the bottom Monday, simply earlier than 4 p.m., and positioned him in a headlock, in line with his mom, Gabriela Ortega.
Hernandez’s household stated he was washing his automobile outdoors his dwelling when the confrontation started, however the Sheriff’s Division stated he was strolling on the street within the 3500 block of Floral Drive on the time. The deputies watched him transfer his palms towards his waistband just like “somebody who was probably making an attempt to hide one thing,” in line with a Sheriff’s Division assertion.
The deputies alleged they acknowledged Hernandez due to his prior historical past as a gang member and once they approached and searched him they “felt a firearm in his waistband,” in line with the Sheriff’s Division.
Hernandez refused to be handcuffed, the Sheriff’s Division stated, and that’s when the deputies pressured him to the bottom. The violent arrest was first reported by Fox 11 Information.
Within the cellphone video recorded by Ortega’s youthful son, one deputy positioned Hernandez in a headlock and pulled again his arm. Hernandez tried to tug the deputy’s arm off his neck, however the different deputy repeatedly punched and elbowed him within the head. Blood pooled on Hernandez’s face because the deputy continued to punch him and tried to get handcuffs on Hernandez’s wrist, in line with the video. At one level in the course of the encounter, a deputy pulled out a handgun from his holster and pointed it at a neighbor who approached Hernandez and the deputies, the video confirmed.
The deputies stated they discovered a loaded 9-millimeter firearm inside Hernandez’s pants. He was arrested on suspicion of being an ex-felon in possession of a firearm and battery on a police officer. The division stated Hernandez and the deputies have been handled at a neighborhood hospital for his or her accidents.
“They’re saying {that a} police officer had blood. But it surely was my son’s blood,” Ortega stated when reached by telephone on Tuesday. “You can see within the video how he’s punching him so laborious along with his fist and elbow going forwards and backwards. After all he’s going to have blood.”
The division stated the arrest and the deputies’ actions are underneath investigation.
“As with all use-of-force incident a complete evaluate can be carried out to find out if division insurance policies and procedures have been adopted,” the Sheriff’s Division stated in a information launch.
Hernandez is an amputee, lacking a part of his leg, and spends most of his time at dwelling, in line with his mom. However she feels that due to his legal file, regulation enforcement officers proceed to harass him and her household. In a separate incident, sheriff’s deputies pulled over her husband as a result of he didn’t have a license plate on the entrance of his car. She stated a deputy pointed a gun at her husband throughout that incident.
She feels the deputies who beat her son have been going out of their method to goal him.
“I need folks to be held accountable for his or her actions. As a mom, that’s what I need and that’s what I’m going to combat for,” stated Ortega, who was at work in the course of the incident however noticed the video footage later. “Simply because you’ve gotten a badge, you suppose that offers you the best and that you just’re above the regulation?”
Hernandez stays in police custody, in line with jail information, with no bail set.