LA County sheriff says deputy punching baby-holding mother in the face was ‘completely unacceptable’

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles County sheriff has decried the use of force by deputies in the Antelope Valley for the second time in a week. Edited body camera video released Wednesday shows a deputy punching a woman twice in the face as she held a 3-week-old infant. It happened during a traffic stop in Palmdale a year ago. Sheriff Robert Luna calls it “completely unacceptable.” He sent the case to the county district attorney’s office to consider criminal charges. Luna said last week that two deputies had been pulled from field duty after video surfaced of a deputy violently tackling and pepper-spraying a woman who recorded them handcuffing a man.