After lawsuits and calls for his firing, police agent Thomas DeStefano leaves Palo Alto

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After lawsuits and calls for his firing, police agent leaves Palo Alto

27 September 2021

A Palo Alto police officer who has been named in several lawsuits, including one stemming from his violent arrest of resident Julio Arevalo in front of the Happy Donuts store on El Camino Real in 2019, is no longer working in the Palo Alto Police Department, the Weekly has learned. The city would not state whether Agent Thomas DeStefano left willingly, was fired or was asked to resign, claiming that doing so would violate state law. The Weekly has discovered, however, that his last day of work in Palo Alto was Sept. 7 and that he was one of seven ...

After lawsuits and calls for his firing, police agent leaves Palo Alto

A police officer who has been named in numerous lawsuits, including one stemming from his violent arrest of Julio Arevalo in front of Happy Donuts in 2019, is no longer working in the city.

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City paid $250,000 to settle 2013 brutality suit against cop who has now been accused again

30 November 2019

The Palo Alto Police Department’s Tom DeStefano, who was just named in a $3.8 million police brutality claim, was one of the officers accused in a lawsuit five years ago of breaking a man’s arm during a 2013 traffic stop. The city settled that suit for $250,000 after the man’s attorney started investigating the police department’s claim that two of its dash cams malfunctioned during the arrest. In that lawsuit, Tyler Harney claimed he had a seizure after officers stopped the car in which he was a passenger on Greer Road around noon on Aug. 3, 2013. Rather than trying ...

City paid $250,000 to settle 2013 brutality suit against cop who...

Evidence tampering question raised Harney subpoenaed Kustom Signals Inc., which manufactured and sold police-car dashcams to the Palo Alto Police Department, for information to help his own expert determine if police had tampered with the cameras. But the city said that information was...

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