The off-duty Los Angeles police officer who was detained Saturday night alongside a man suspected of possessing drugs and a gun has accused the officers who detained him of racial profiling.
The officer has accused members of a Los Angeles Police Department gang enforcement unit of confronting him because he is Black and not having a legal justification to detain him, according to three department sources.
Sometime on Saturday night, gang officers assigned to the LAPD’s 77th Street Division spotted two men standing next to a parked vehicle, said two sources within the department who were not authorized to discuss an ongoing investigation. When the officers approached, one of the men tossed a bag into the car, according to the sources. Their suspicions aroused, the gang officers started to question the men, the sources said.
Investigators from the LAPD’s internal affairs unit were summoned to the scene and the decision was ultimately made not to arrest the officer since there was no evidence tying him directly to the bag, the sources said.
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