Royal attempted to discharge his duty to the public and was shut down, and when the department actually got sued for failing to do the very thing he begged them to do, they turned the power of the badge against him to shut him down and control him because they know he will soon be a witness in the civil wrongful death lawsuit,” Royal’s attorney, Matthew McNicholas, said in a news release Monday.

Source: Los Angeles Times June 11, 2019 01:07 UTC