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    Trans man beaten and arrested by LA sheriff's deputy is declared innocent by judge

    by Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times Mar 21, 2024 5 minutes
    Emmett Brock was beaten by a Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy, then arrested and accused of biting the lawman who pummeled him.

    LOS ANGELES — For more than two hours, Emmett Brock waited outside a Downey courtroom. He sat, he stood, he fidgeted, he paced in the emptying hallway. Finally, he heard his name and went inside.

    It was March 8, 2024, exactly 392 days after he'd been beaten by a Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy in front of a 7-Eleven, then arrested and accused of biting the lawman who pummeled him. Afterward, he'd been sent to the Norwalk station lockup and booked for three felonies and a misdemeanor. By the time prosecutors dropped the case seven months later, he'd already lost his high school teaching job.

    It had been a painful year, and to put it behind him Brock wanted a judge to declare him innocent. His lawyer had filed the paperwork, and now Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Evan Kitahara was going to decide on the request.

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