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1 U. CITY Further Retaliated Against CARDENAL by Using his Complaint to 2 "Expand" the then-Inactive Investigation Against CARDENAL during which 3 4 False Testimony is Encouraged,Obtained and,Thereafter,Rewarded. 5 93. On September 12, 2021, Sergeant Lopez - citing the anonymous letter left in the Internal 6 Affairs mailbox - expanded his investigation to include Watch.2 Officers, despite three months passing 7 before interviewing anyone aside from the initial five officers. 8 9 94. CARDENAL is informed and believes that one of the officers interviewed on this date 10 (Officer Tanner Bell)provided false testimony during his interview and attributed harassing statements that 11 were made by another officer to CARDENAL. 12 95. (CARDENAL was,in fact,the person who stepped in during the described incident and told 13 14 the officer involved to leave OfficerBell alone.This officer,Jacob Wiggs,has since left the Department and 15 would testify that the statements provided by Officer Bell are false.) 16 96. Officer Bell was later rewarded with a transfer to Sergeant Lizardi's team. 17 97. . From September 12-October 26,2021, Sergeant Lopez conducted a total of 27 interviews 18 19 regarding CARDENAL's statements to Watch 2 and Watch 3 roll call. 20 98. The total number of individuals interviewed in this investigation, including CARDENAL, 21 was 32. 22 99. Not one person said that CARDENAL told, advised or directed them to stop conducting 23 24 proactive enforcement stops. 25 100. In order to justify sustaining the allegation that CARDENAL somehow caused a Watch 2/3 26 work slowdown, Sergeant Lopez pulled stats from two weekends prior to CARDENAL's June 19 27 conversation and compared them to two weekends after. 28 101. The two weekends after were for the weekend of and the weekend before the July 4'holiday. 17 CAHDENALv.CrrYOFSANTAANA CASHNO. COMM Awr - I