For the second time in nearly two years, attorneys for a Black teenage girl who was allegedly body-slammed and called an “animal” by a sheriff’s deputy working as a school resource officer at Lancaster High School have announced a tentative settlement in her lawsuit.
The plaintiff, born in 2004, is identified only as Jane Doe 1 in the Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit that also named as defendants the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, Deputy Daniel Acquilano and the Antelope Valley Union High School District.
On Monday, her attorneys filed court papers with Judge Jerrold Abeles notifying him of a “conditional” settlement in the case with the expectation a request for dismissal will be filed by March 16…