Tag: Laura Drottz Kalty

When video emerged this summer of La Mesa police officer Matthew Dages manhandling and eventually arresting a 23-year-old man sitting near the Grossmont Center trolley stop, residents and civil rights activists called for an internal investigation and the officer’s termination. Dages is white and the man, Amaurie Johnson, is Black. Dages had said he initially approached Johnson because he was smoking...