San Fernando police Officer Saul Garibay is accused of slapping a phone out of the hand of a man who was filming him on duty in 2021.
A veteran San Fernando police officer was charged with assault Tuesday for shoving a man who filmed him during an on-duty encounter, prosecutors said.
Garibay — who records show has been a police officer for more than 20 years — had ordered the man to leave the gas station, according to the release. The man then began filming Garibay with a cellphone, prosecutors said. Garibay responded by “knocking the phone out of the man’s hand and pushing him away,” the statement read.
In a statement, San Fernando Police Chief Fabian Valdez said his department last year referred information about the incident to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, which conducted an independent investigation and referred its findings to the district attorney’s office. The Sheriff’s Department did not reply to a request for comment.
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