Complaint Review: West Hollywood Sheriff’s Station - West Hollywood California

I understand that officers are often the victims of spurious complaints, but I witnessed my friend being wrongfully arrested. The officer involved (who no one was able to give me the name of, at the scene or after) knowingly made a false report - complete fabrication and story telling. In short, he arrested my friend for absolutely nothing, and so far has gotten away with it scotch free. This kind of behavior compromises criminal cases for legitimate victims in the city.

This officer claimed to his fellow officers, and the supervisor that my friend "threw something at him". He pulled this out of thin air. We watched as the officers looked for a trace of something thrown to which they did not prevail. 

There was no warning, and no previous interaction with the officer. He came out of no where, and arrested him based on what I believe was solely the officers unrealistic and uncontrollable rage due to a comment he over heard. My friend said something to the effect of "I wonder if the trolley is going to stop with this fing cop car parked here". Apparently all the officer heard was "fing cop" and ranted "this is the respect you show" as he illegally arrested my friend. 

The officer was physically shaking with rage when he made the arrest. This kind of inability to have self control is a liability for the department. Yet despite providing the contact information for other witnesses at the scene, the West Hollywood Police Department has done nothing to discipline this cop. They won't even give me the name of the officer.

Accountability is key to healthy law enforcement. This is not the level of service that I expect from an officer in West Hollywood. It is astonishing that an officer can get away with something like this.

I spent $1,000 to meet my friends $10,000 bail for an unconstitutional falsified arrest. My friend was almost fired for not showing up to work, and for what? He was not doing a single thing wrong but waiting for the trolley. They physically removed him from the street, locked him in a cage, and held him for ransom for committing no crime. You have to be a real sick sociopath to even think about doing this to an innocent person. My friend is the nicest person, who has never been in any kind of trouble.

My friend was encouraged to accept a plea deal which included probation for a year to avoid the potential of loosing the case. My friend can't sue the department until his case is closed, which wont be until after he successfully completes probation. It's convenient that a wrongful arrest suit has a statue of limitations of 1 year. Sick stuff! I no longer have any confidence in our system whats so ever! The U.S. criminal justice system lacks a shred of justice.

To top it all off, my friend reported to me that the officer referred to him, speaking to a fellow officer, as a "f***ing f*g". Why is this homophobic cop working in West Hollywood?

I've provided a photo below of the extremely short-statured, loose cannon of an officer who feels the need to make up for his physical inadequacy by bulling innocent citizens. A classic example of The Napoleon Complex.

To quote the departments official response to me, "the employee's actions appeared reasonable."

This man needs to be fired! If you know this officers name, or have been treated poorly or illegally by this officer, please comment. I want to investigate any trends with him. I have not been able to get any information from the department as they hide this sicko behind their blue shield. Based on the confidence he had doing something so blatantly wrong, it is very likely that he has done things like this before.