Santa Ana officials are expected to consider censuring Councilman Johnathan Hernandez tonight after three police officers filed complaints alleging he harassed, retaliated and defamed them.
The complaints come after a host of accountability questions surfaced over summer for the police department and its union – which spends heavily on local elections – posed in part by Hernandez during a federal immigration crackdown particularly felt in cities like Santa Ana.
Scores of residents railed Santa Ana police department’s response to the local protests against the federal deportation sweeps – including Hernandez…