Transgender person Emmett Brock has been declared “factually stupid” of all charges against him as his personal complaint against the policeman progresses more than a year after he was beaten and jailed by a Los Angeles police officer.
On March 8, a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge declared Brock, 24, stupid of three crimes — mayhem, resisting arrest, and restriction — as well as a misdemeanor charge of failure to obey a policeman official, the Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday. A discovering of “factual ignorance” means that the court has declared that Brock’s ignorance is based solely on the basic facts of the case, despite the fact that prosecutors dropped their case against him back in August. That could help Brock’s chances in his new legal challenge against Los Angeles County and members of its Sheriff’s Department, from whom he is seeking more than$ 10, 000 in damages, as the Times confirmed.
” I may finally exhale”, Brock said in a statement to the Times following Judge Evan Kitahara’s choice to consider him factually innocent. It sounded like I had been holding my breath for more than a year.
Although he was not found guilty, Brock also lost his position teaching in the high school soon after his imprisonment in February 2023. On February 10, only after noon on February 10, Brock was traveling to an interview when he passed a police officer who appeared to be been berating a person during a traffic stop, according to court records. As the sheriff passed, Rock pointed the finger at him. After stopping for a few blocks to a 7-Eleven parking lot, the officer, LA County Sheriff’s Deputy Joseph Benza, then abandoned his car, punched Brock repeatedly, and told him to” stop resisting.” He then proceeded to run after him, telling him to” stop resisting.” Brock was after treated for a trauma.
Benza eventually claimed that Brock had tried to bite him, but a medical review found” no data” to help the claim. Authorities also held Brock in a women’s prison cell after forcing him to show his testicles, per court records. According to The Times, Benza’s alleged attack is being investigated by both the FBI and Los Angeles district attorney George Gascón, with Brock’s attorney Thomas Beck making the case that the lieutenant had face charges for excessive force.
