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The sixth annual Office of Independent Review released today
announced that three of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department employees
have violated the policy in Mel Gibson’s 2006 arrest.
A jailor and two supervisors have been accused of applying a
preferential treatment to Gibson, by not respecting the routine procedures when
the actor was released and by escorting him away from the police station
without any legal reason to do so.
According to the report, the police department has taken disciplinary
measures in the case of the three employees who have failed to follow procedure
and tried to withhold information from the original report.
When Gibson’s arrest was made public, four of the pages from
the original police report regarding the actor’s anti-Semitic behavior have
been pulled out from his file, but OIR says those pages have been included in a
report presented to the District Attorney.
“The initial response from first and second level
supervisors was to order that the comments be entirely stricken from the police
report as unnecessary,” said OIR. “However, before being implemented, that
instruction was modified by the unit commander, who proposed that the comments
not to be included in the narrative of the report, but that they be placed
instead in a supplemental report.”
At the same time, the OIR report found nothing wrong with
Paris Hilton’s arrest, even though the hotel heiress was released from jail
before she served full sentence: “the investigations surrounding the Hilton
jailing have, to date, not resulted in any founded violations of policy.”
Although the report stated that whenever Paris Hilton walked
past other inmates in the jail’s corridors they were ordered to face the wall,
or that she received a brand new uniform instead of being given a recycled one,
OIR says that her treatment only appeared to be preferential, but in fact it
was only the normal treatment of a high-profile inmate.
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