The Times editorial board writes on the latest twist in the Sheriff Villanueva saga (via latimesopinion)
Sheriff Alex Villanueva, right, during the Sheriff Civilian Oversight Commission at the Metropolitan Transit Authority in Los Angeles on March 26.
But Wickham and the board were so rattled by the call and so concerned that it was designed to intimidate her that they called an extraordinary closed emergency meeting for the ostensible purpose of responding to a “threat to public services.”In any event, the proper response from Villanueva would have been to immediately issue a statement that he would never countenance any intimidation of that sort. He didn't. Typical.
In one public meeting he casually branded the inspector general and the lawyers on his team “sharks.” In an interview with the Times he said Wickham had “gone rogue” in challenging his authority to unilaterally settle wrongful-termination lawsuits by reinstating fired deputies.
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