Officer who beat unarmed man with a baton outside veteran’s hospital gets a year in prison
LA TimesAmerican flags decorate tents at an encampment of homeless veterans along San Vicente Boulevard in Brentwood on July 4, 2020. A former police officer was sentenced to a year in prison on Friday for beating a man with a baton at the West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Medical Center in 2022. Juan Anthony Carrillo, 46, arrived to assist another police officer who had detained a 34-year-old man, referred to in court records only as R.V., at about 4 a.m. at the medical center in January 2022. The man, who prosecutors describe as being unhoused, was walking on medical center property holding a clear glass pipe that the officer suspected was drug paraphernalia, according to a sentencing memo filed in federal court. “We deeply appreciate the difficult jobs faced every day by law enforcement officers, the vast majority of whom act with professionalism and integrity,” U.S District Attorney Martin Estrada said when Carrillo was indicted last year.
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