Legal professionals for a Los Angeles Police Division officer who alleges he was sexually harassed by Mayor Eric Garcetti’s former senior adviser need a choose to exclude any protection proof throughout the upcoming trial of the plaintiff’s lawsuit that Garcetti himself could have been the sufferer of sexual harassment whereas in highschool.
Officer Matthew Garza filed the lawsuit towards town in Los Angeles Superior Courtroom in July 2020, alleging intercourse and gender harassment. Based on Garza, for a number of years he was assigned to the LAPD’s police safety unit for the mayor. He says he was required to drive Garcetti to and from mayoral engagements and accompany him on out-of-town journeys and that former mayoral adviser Rick Jacobs usually accompanied them.
Garza alleges that Jacobs subjected him on “lots of of events to undesirable and unwelcome sexual feedback and touching, together with tight hugs and shoulder rubbing, from 2014-19. In an interview printed Oct. 26 in Los Angeles Journal, Garcetti mentioned he was survivor of sexual harassment in highschool, however when requested who harassed him, he replied that he would moderately not discuss it.
