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EL MONTE, Calif. — The Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department will review a televised arrest in which a suburban police officer kicked a suspect who had given up and was lying facedown on the ground, a police spokesman said Thursday.
The El Monte police officer who kicked the suspect Wednesday has been reassigned. The actions of a second officer who struck the suspect with a flashlight also will be examined.
Police identified the driver as Richard Rodriguez, 23, of El Monte. He was on parole and is a member of an El Monte street gang, Lt. Chuck Carlson said.
