Heriberto Rodriguez v. County of Los Angeles, 891 F.3d 776 (2018)

Citation: Heriberto Rodriguez v. County of Los Angeles, 891 F.3d 776 (2018)
Parent Document: Heriberto Rodriguez v. County of Los Angeles, 891 F.3d 776 (2018)
Jurisdiction: United States (federal)
Effective Date: 2018-05-30
Original Source: https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/4502306/heriberto-rodriguez-v-county-of... ↗

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LASD policy required staff to videotape cell extractions
in their entirety and to preserve the videotapes afterwards.
During discovery in this case, appellants produced forty-one
videotapes of the cell extractions. These videotapes show
almost none of the activity that took place inside the cells.
Expert witness Steve Martin reviewed all of the videotapes
produced by appellants, looking for the “hard-impact strikes”
described by appellants in their post-extraction reports and by
appellees. “Remarkably,” Martin testified, the videotapes
showed “not a single [hard-impact] strike[.]” “[N]ot a single
one of those hundred-plus strikes was captured on video.”
On the audio of many of the videotapes, deputies can be
heard saying “stop fighting.” However, none of the
videotapes that were produced in discovery shows the
inmates at the time this is being said, making it impossible to
see whether the inmates were, in fact, fighting.

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