A Los Angeles Sheriff's Department deputy is facing accusations of excessive force after he purportedly slammed a transgender man during an encounter.
Emmett Brock, 24, a biological woman who identifies as a man, alleged the deputy followed for blocks prior to the pair's entry into the parking lot of a 7-Eleven, according to a report.An encounter between the two was captured on security film.The deputy then tailed him but didn’t pull him over - for an air freshener hanging from the rearview - until he parked at 7-11.
Brock was told to"come here" by the deputy while the latter approached Brock's vehicle, and a dispute over why the stop occurred ensued, the report noted. "He was never on the radio," Brock said."No lights. No sirens. The lights came on, I think, when he parks the car behind me. That's the first time I saw the lights.""In my opinion, that was excessive force," retired LAPD detective and use-of-force expert Timothy Williams said."I told you to stop. You walked away," the deputy told Brock.
Brock is represented by Tom Beck, who maintains Brock was pulled over for having an air fresher on the vehicle's mirror. "But the moment the suspect resisted, that is no longer an air freshener situation. It becomes, now, resisting arrest," Yu said."And the suspect bit my client on the hand, and there are photographs of bite marks on his right hand.""The reports says there's no evidence of a bite," he said."He's got scraped knuckles. That's it."Yu maintains the incident could have been prevented if Brock had stayed in the vehicle and cooperated, the report noted.
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