By Keri Blakinger
A Los Angeles attorney filed a petition this week asking the state to “decertify” Undersheriff April Tardy for allegedly committing perjury when she testified in court last year as a witness in a civil lawsuit about a deputy gang known as the Executioners.
During sworn testimony to the Civilian Oversight Commission in 2022 — before she became the undersheriff — Tardy said she’d transferred a “shotcaller” in a deputy group after confirming he’d ordered a work slowdown at the Compton station.
She walked back those statements during a civil trial a year later, when she testified as a witness, denying gang activity at the Compton station and saying that there had never been a work slowdown.
In the petition sent to the state’s Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training this week, attorney Alan Romero — who called on Tardy to testify in the 2023 civil lawsuit — said the inconsistent testimony showed such dishonesty that the state should permanently take away her peace officer certification.
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