MAYOR WANTS AIRPORT COP OFF JOB.Byline: Daily News Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Antonio Ramon Villaraigosa (born Antonio (Tony) Ramon Villar, Jr. on January 23, 1953) is the mayor of Los Angeles, California. He is the first Latino mayor of Los Angeles since Cristobal Aguilar in 1872. said Wednesday he hopes to keep an airport police officer, convicted of a misdemeanor for making lewd gestures and comments to two teenage girls, from returning to work. The Civil Service Commission reinstated Los Angeles World Airports Los Angeles World Airports or LAWA is the airport oversight and operations department for the city of Los Angeles, California. This department owns and operates Los Angeles International Airport, LA/Ontario International Airport, Palmdale Regional Airport, and Van police Officer Anthony Edwards This article is about the American actor. For the British academic see A.W.F. Edwards. Anthony Edwards is also a footballer for Macclesfield Town Anthony Charles Planck Edwards[1] (born July 19, 1962) is an Emmy Award-winning American actor and director. last week, saying there wasn't enough evidence to show he actually made sexual comments and gestures to the teens -- even though he pleaded no contest to public nuisance public nuisance n. a nuisance which affects numerous members of the public or the public at large, as distinguished from a nuisance which only does harm to a neighbor or a few private individuals. charges stemming from the 2003 incident. Edwards has repeatedly denied the allegations, and the victim in the incident refused to testify at the Civil Service Commission hearing. However airport officials said they did not want to risk any liability of allowing Edwards back to work, and pledged to fight the commission's decision. Villaraigosa on Wednesday backed the airport department's concerns. ``The mayor believes that anyone who engages in lewd conduct toward minors is unfit unfit not properly prepared, e.g. physically incapable of performing hard work as in racing, because of lack of training. Said also of food prepared unhygienically. unfit for human consumption to serve in a law enforcement capacity,'' spokesman Matt Szabo said. Edwards was reinstated with back pay but his attorney has advised him to stay off the job until the matter is resolved. |
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