Citing a LAist/ProPublica report that sheriff’s deputies disproportionately stopped and cited Black students, LA County’s Inspector General said he will look into allegations of racial discrimination in California’s Antelope Valley high schools.
L.A. County’s Inspector General is looking into allegations of racial discrimination raised by a joint LAist-ProPublica investigation on high school campuses in the Antelope Valley.
The claim alleges that Deputy Daniel Acquilano the school resource officer at Lancaster High School body slammed and straddled MiKayla Robinson after she refused to give her phone to him and walked away.
Weeks after a cell phone video showed a teen girl being "body-slammed" by a deputy, the girl's family is taking the school district and Los Angeles County to court, according to the girl's attorney.
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