LOS ANGELES — After less than a day of deliberations, a jury Monday acquitted two Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies who were charged with filing a false report involving a 2018 arrest in East Los Angeles.

Deputies Woodrow Kim and Jonathan Miramontes were charged in August 2021 with one count each of filing a false report. The charges were dismissed in August 2022 by a judge who found “insufficient evidence” against the pair, but a state appeals court reinstated the case in February 2024.

Kim was accused of opening the driver’s side door of a patrol vehicle and knocking a man to the ground following a vehicle pursuit that ended in Ruben Salazar Park on Sept. 19, 2018, according to a statement issued by the District Attorney’s Office the day the case was filed.

The appellate court jus

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