A veteran Los Angeles police captain assigned to help oversee the policing of Metro subway lines and buses has tentatively settled his lawsuit against the city in which he alleged that he was reprimanded for a trivial matter in retaliation for complaining that the commander of his unit was using some personnel for work unrelated to transportation duties.
Capt. Brian Pratt’s Los Angeles Superior Court whistleblower suit was filed in July 2021 and sought unspecified damages. The captain’s attorneys filed court papers indicating that a “conditional” resolution of the case had been reached with the expectation a request for dismissal will be brought by Aug. 17. No terms were divulged. Judge William E. Weinberger has scheduled a July 20 post-settlement hearing.
In their previous court papers, lawyers for the City Attorney’s Office stated that “any alleged conduct by (the city) constituted a just and proper exercise of management discretion, undertaken for a fair and honest reason without malice or unlawful motive.”…