Lawsuit against L.A. County deputies involved in fight outside Santa Clarita bar dismissed

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A lawsuit claiming that a man was beaten outside a Santa Clarita bar by off-duty Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies, who then conspired with a high-ranking sheriff’s official to cover up the incident, was dismissed by a federal judge this week.In the lawsuit, Valencia resident Parker Seitz alleged that off-duty deputies Randy Austin and Nicholas Hernandez, along with a third man attacked him outside a bar called the Break Room in late November 2024.

Seitz said the men had assaulted him, and that the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and deputies had violated his civil rights, inflicted emotional stress, defamed him and conspired to keep the matter quiet.The incident, the complaint alleged, left Seitz with a fractured jaw, punctured lung and a bruised collarbone.

But attorneys for the county argued in court filings that it was Seitz who was actually the aggressor.California A man is suing Los Angeles County, alleging off-duty sheriff’s deputies beat him up last Thanksgiving Day in Santa Clarita and then tried to cover up the incident.Seitz’s attorneys said they were disappointed in the ruling and “will continue to seek justice.” “Mr.

Seitz and his family, as we have previously stated, are longtime supporters of law enforcement, and remain so, but they expect accountability for the assault and the events that followed,” said attorney Josh Stambaugh.Attorneys representing the county and the deputies did not immediately respond to requests for comment Friday.In the complaint filed in California’s Central District federal court on Aug.

25, Seitz had also alleged that deputies and a captain in the sheriff’s North Patrol Division tried to dissuade and prevent him and his father from reporting the incident.But U.S.

District Court Judge R.Gary Klausner disagreed in a ruling Wednesday, finding Seitz and his attorneys had not shown how his 1st Amendment r...