The "Few Bad Apples" Epidemic: the LA County Sheriff is in the news for lying. In police jargon, he might recall charging people throughout his career for false official testimony, or lying to police. When he does it, somehow, he's trying to convince the public, he just doesn't recall lying about it

these are the people in uniform that the Sheriff is the manager, supervisor, and commander of. 

Except he doesn't want to know when they kneel on people's heads.

More, when informed, he retaliated against the whistleblower (those with a legal right, and responsibility, to inform the public and the govt of the facts that are being covered up, and a legal protection against retaliation) by demoting her from assistant Sheriff to Lt. 

What a fucking asshole this Sheriff Villanueva is. But then, most sheriffs are. 

https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/29/us/los-angeles-county-sheriff-alex-villanueva-coverup-allegations-second-official/index.html

Assistant Sheriff Limon reported on the same incident of Villanueva lying, as another official earlier this week, according to Los Angeles Times reporting. 

Limon alleged in a legal claim filed Thursday that Villanueva retaliated against her "for being a whistleblower on several instances of illegal and other wrongful conduct and to further his cover up of an excessive use of force incident." 

Limon has been demoted to lieutenant, 4 ranks down. 

That incident occurred March 10, 2021, at the San Fernando Courthouse. An inmate struck a deputy who then kneeled on the inmate's head and "restricted his breathing long after" the inmate had stopped resisting, Limon's claim alleges.

That's how cops killed George Floyd. 

Cops do not learn, do not care, and get away with this assault and abuse of people. 

Limon's claim alleges she brought a DVD with video of the courthouse incident to Villanueva around March 15, 2021, after learning of it from other officers.

After they watched the video, Villanueva told her the sheriff's department did not "need bad media at this time," and said he would "handle the matter," the claim states.

The sheriff then blocked an internal investigation and the filing of assault charges against the inmate involved in the incident because "Villanueva knew that if assault charges were filed against the inmate, his defense attorney would have gotten access to the video and the public could see it," the claim alleges.