The L.A. County Board of Supervisors agreed to pay $47.6 million to settle several lawsuits over allegations of misconduct by sheriff’s deputies. The payouts include $8 million for the family of Andres Guardado, whose killing prompted large protests.
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors agreed Tuesday to pay $47.6 million to settle several lawsuits alleging misconduct by sheriff’s deputies. The payouts include $8 million for the family of Andres Guardado, whose killing prompted large protests.
Typically members of the Board of Supervisors do not publicly discuss proposed settlements before voting to approve or reject them. And it is unusual for the board to deal with several multimillion-dollar settlements in one meeting. “I would hope that the department head would take a long, hard look at actions and policies of his department and the costly actions of his department before continuing to complain that this board is defunding said department,” Mitchell said.raided her home“I realized that it was a very small taste of what communities go through every day in our more impoverished communities and communities of color,” Kuehl said. “I feel like they are so deserving of these settlements.
Prosecutors declined to file charges against the deputies, concluding that they acted in self-defense. A similar settlement amount — over $16.2 million — was approved for the family of Eric Briceno, who died in 2020 after being beaten and Tasered in his family’s Maywood home. “They had a privilege of being out on the streets, going home seeing their families — they deprived me of all of that,” Blanca Briceno said Tuesday, referring to the deputies who killed her son. “These deputies didn’t just take my son’s life. ... They took a life of peace and tranquility of my family and mine.
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