An L.A. sheriff’s deputy shot a man in the back. Two years later, the case remains open
LA TimesAdrian Abelar, who was shot by L.A. sheriff’s deputies in 2021, poses for a portrait at Grand Park. Documents turned over by the sheriff’s department to prosecutors — which Beck obtained in discovery in a civil lawsuit he filed this year on Abelar’s behalf — show one internal incident report describing the encounter as an “assault with a deadly weapon against a peace officer.” Liu is listed among the victims. But Doktor, a 63-year-old with an unmistakable New York accent, called the sheriff’s department’s Temple station directly asking deputies to get Abelar “off his property,” according to recordings made public by law enforcement. Doktor said Abelar’s actions were captured by surveillance cameras at his auto body shop, but that the sheriff’s department took that footage from him the day of the shooting. The sheriff’s department’s report only lists six witnesses to the incident — the three responding deputies, Doktor, Abelar and Abelar’s ex-girlfriend — and the confrontation itself was brief and captured on camera, the lawyer said.
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