LOS ANGELES — A third high-ranking Los Angeles County sheriff’s official has filed a legal claim contradicting Sheriff Alex Villanueva’s account of how he handled an incident in which a deputy kneeled on the head of a handcuffed inmate for three minutes.
Former Chief LaJuana Haselrig said in the filing, which is a precursor to a lawsuit, that she gave a DVD containing a video of the incident to Assistant Sheriff Robin Limon and Limon told her she was “heading immediately from there to Villanueva’s office to show him the video.”
Limon, who was a close adviser to Villanueva until he demoted her over the incident, filed her own claim last week alleging she showed the video to Villanueva and two other people five days after the incident happened.
