The man can be heard telling deputies that the woman has cancer. The deputy then appeared to pepper spray the woman. "I can't breathe,” she says at one point, followed by, “you threw me down to the ground.” The woman called out that she can’t breathe as the deputy appeared to place his knee near her neck. (Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department) PHOTO: Bodycam footage released by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department of a June 24 2023, incident outside a WinCo grocery store in Lancaster, Calif. “As deputies attempted to detain the individuals described by store security personnel, the encounter escalated into a use of force incident that was captured by a community member with a cell phone camera. “Upon arrival, deputies approached a man and a woman, matching the description given by store security personnel in calls placed to 911,” the LASD said. While the Department does not make statements related to ongoing investigations, Sheriff Luna has made it clear that he expects Department personnel to treat all members of the public with dignity and respect, and that personnel who do not uphold our training standards will be held accountable,” the statement said.Īccording to the LASD, two deputies responded to the scene after a report of an in-progress robbery at the WinCo Foods store at the 700 block of West Avenue K-4 in Lancaster. “The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has opened an investigation into this incident.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department released the body camera footage of the incident on Monday, saying in a statement that they did so “in the interest of transparency” with the community. There's no ifs ands, buts about it,” Luna said, adding that the investigation will include interviews with witnesses and a review of the body camera, cell phone and surveillance videos from the store.
The sheriff said that he has viewed both the body camera video and video recorded by a bystander and found the footage “disturbing.” As deputies attempted to detain the individuals, the encounter escalated into a use of force incident that was captured by a community member with a cell phone camera,” Luna said. “Upon arrival, a deputy approached a man matching the description given by store security personnel. Luna said that the sheriff’s department received a call from an employee who said that two customers “were assaulting loss prevention employees.” Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna spoke out on Wednesday afternoon about his department’s internal affairs investigation into a June 24 incident outside a WinCo Foods grocery store in Lancaster, California, where a sheriff’s deputy slammed a woman to the ground during a confrontation about an alleged robbery in progress.
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