A man who allegedly chased him with a firearm in Westster last year has sued Los Angeles, accused of being threatened at gunpoint for talking to an officer's girlfriend.
Gary Martin described the alleged incident in May in the case of the Los Angeles Police Department and the officer in the federal court last week. Richard Bodkowski Violation of his civil rights. The officer's lawyer said that his customer had set foot after threatening his partner.
Bodkovski was upset after seeing the officer's girlfriend in a parking lot in a parking lot of Belford Avenue in a residential neighborhood near the Los Angeles International Airport.
At one point where the pair was found, the officer approached “violently and aggressively,” Martin sat in the parked car and said, “Get out of here. You are not on this street!” According to the case.
The case claims that Martin was trying to reduce the situation of Martin by leaving the vehicle to justify with Bodkovsky, and he responded by pointing to Martin's head with his hips. The case claims that Bodkovsky threw a punch, which expanded Martin to the sidewalk, and then began to chase him around the car and demanded that he come to the ground.
Bodkovsky's lawyer, Nicole Castro, said that the case “completely illustrates what happened.”
He said that these allegations had misrepresented Bodkovsky as a trigger. After a dispute over a parking space, he was coming to the protection of his girlfriend, in which Martin and another man “accused” of the woman, that the lawyer said in his vehicle.
“Her phone number, her Instagram and they were telling her that she would not get out of her car,” Casrono said. “The claim seems to have happened from the sky, but it didn't happen.”
Bodkovsky is on the administrative leave, which is pending the end of an internal affairs investigation, Castro said.
Martin's case says that the confrontation ended when he entered the vehicle after Botkovsky's screaming: “I am a policeman. Do you think someone is going to trust you on me? “Martin says he went fast. He accused the police.
“Generally, LAPT officials failed to properly train, and officer Bodkovki, in particular, was a continuous issue,” the case says. “Both the policy and training failed to do so are the Los Angeles city and the LAPD.
A LAPD spokesman refused to comment on the pending cases.
The police came after the parking lot, and the officers arrested Bodkovsky on suspicion of being attacked by a deadly weapon. According to booking records, he was briefly jailed and released after granted $ 30,000 bail.
The case was initially presented to the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office, but later recommended to the La City Prosecutor's Office, which often handles false actions. A spokesman for the office said the case was pending last week.
Online records show that Bodkowski was placed on administrative leave, and his statewide police certificate has been temporarily suspended, which is pending the end of his criminal case.
Department records show that the Hollywood division, which includes West Los Angeles and Pacific, Wilshire and Olympic areas, joined the West Bureau and the West Bureau.
Martin's lawyer, Justin Sterling, told his customer that he had “inherent fear of law enforcement” before the incident.
“This connection really rocked him,” said Sterling. “Imagine the guy targeting your head and chasing around your vehicle. You have to jump into your car to flee. It's one outside a movie.”