A San Diego-area police officer acquitted on charges of falsifying a police report in La Mesa, California, in May of 2020 is now fighting to get his job back. The case is expected to go before a California Superior Court judge on April 1.
Matthew Dages, 31, was fired from the La Mesa Police Department after confronting 23-year-old Amaurie Johnson at the Metropolitan Transit System trolley station on May 27, 2020 in La Mesa in the wake of George Floyd and Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests.
