LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department has relieved three deputies of duty while it investigates the circumstances of the bloody beating of a Valencia man outside a Santa Clarita bar last year.

Parker Seitz, 25, alleged in a federal lawsuit that off-duty sheriff's deputies attacked him outside a bar called the Break Room last Thanksgiving Day.

He sustained multiple serious injuries, according to the complaint filed in California's Central District federal court on Aug. 25, including a fractured jaw, a punctured lung and a bruised collarbone.

Seitz is suing the county, multiple L.A. County sheriff's deputies, hired security guards at the Break Room, and the bar itself for unspecified damages.

"Parker Seitz was violently attacked by off-duty Los Angeles Sheriff's Deput

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