THE OFFICER AT THE CENTER OF EVERYTHING: How LAPD’s Justin Choi Triggered a Cascade of Retaliation, Environmental Danger, and Legal Chaos in South Los Angeles
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How a Pattern of Excessive Force, False Statements, and Constitutional Violations Connect Directly to the Hazardous, Life-Threatening Conditions Now Surrounding Daevon J. Taylor
Dated: December 6, 2025
By The Sovereign Record – Investigations Unit
This story is directly related to Clara Shortridge Criminal Case (24CJCF03632) People V Taylor
Fraudulent Warrants - Vacated Restraining Orders - Unsworn Affidavits
False Charges - Withheld Discovery - And More
When Los Angeles Police Officer Justin Choi stepped into a South Los Angeles home on June 5, 2024, he did far more than execute a warrant. He set in motion a chain of events that would unravel into a public-safety nightmare, a civil-rights battle, and a disturbing portrait of an officer whose past should have disqualified him from entering any civilian residence without strict oversight. Yet he was allowed inside for nearly seven hours, unsupervised, under a warrant that was defective on its face.
The resident, Daevon J. Taylor, had never encountered anything like what would follow: unexplained electrical currents surging through metal water lines, toxic gases building inside his home, RF emissions coming from walls and fixtures, appliances failing in irregular patterns, and medical symptoms that escalated to dangerous levels. Within months, Los Angeles agencies would respond not with investigation or transparency, but with retaliation, obstruction, and silence.
To understand how this happened — and why it matters for every resident of Los Angeles — one must begin with the officer at the center of it all: LAPD’s Justin Choi, Serial #42577, a man with a documented history of excessive force, false statements, unconstitutional policing, and an official Brady designation for dishonesty.
This is the story the City hoped would stay buried. This is the story that connects past violence to present danger.
A Pattern of Violence and Deceit Long Before Taylor’s Case
The name Justin Choi first drew public attention in 2020, when the Los Angeles Times revealed the horrifying treatment of Michael Moore, a 62-year-old blind man who had called for help after being assaulted by a visitor in his South LA apartment. Instead of receiving aid, Moore was tackled, restrained, and transported to a hospital, where Officer Choi stepped forward and pressed a towel over Moore’s face — covering both nose and mouth — as Moore cried, “I can’t breathe.” Body-camera footage captured the moment Moore’s voice weakened and his body went limp.
Choi later claimed Moore had attacked first. A jury rejected the officers’ account entirely, acquitting Moore of all charges. A civil lawsuit followed, and the City quietly paid $300,000 to settle.
Officer Justin Choi pressed a towel over Moore’s nose and mouth for nearly a full minute, until Moore lost consciousness.
You can visit the full Los Angeles Times Story below..
This was not an isolated incident. Choi was later named in a civil suit accusing him and other LAPD officers of illegally evicting a man from his home and fabricating burglary and vandalism allegations to justify the removal. In another case, he detained a 6'5" man because he supposedly resembled a suspect described as five-foot-ten — a stop widely criticized as biased and unconstitutional.
These incidents portray an officer whose instincts default to escalation, force, and retroactive justification, regardless of the truth. They also provide the backdrop for the designation that would eventually appear in his personnel file: “potential impeachment material,” the formal signal of a Brady officer, meaning prosecutors are legally obligated to disclose his misconduct because it undermines his credibility.
In other words: by policy and constitutional law, Officer Choi cannot be treated as a reliable witness. Yet in June 2024, he was permitted to lead a warrant operation at Taylor’s home.
The Defective Warrant That Should
Have Never Been Approved
The warrant used to enter Taylor’s residence contained fatal defects. The affidavit was incomplete, improperly formatted, and not sworn by Choi under penalty of perjury, stripping it of legal authority. Information inside it was unverified, inconsistent, and unsupported by the basic elements required to establish probable cause. Nevertheless, LAPD executed the warrant. And while several officers entered briefly, most departed the scene within a short window. Justin Choi remained.
He stayed for hours — nearly seven — conducting actions never fully disclosed, recording nothing of substance in his report, and leaving the home in a condition that would soon prove catastrophic.
What Choi did inside the residence during those seven hours remains unclear. But what happened after he left is undeniable.
A Home That Suddenly Turned Hostile
For years, Taylor’s home functioned as any normal residence would. There were no unusual electrical events, no environmental hazards, no unexplained medical symptoms. The timeline of abnormalities begins after the warrant execution, and its escalation is unmistakable.
Electrical readings began showing currents on metal water pipes and grounding conductors that should not have existed under safe conditions. Stray current measurements repeatedly captured levels ranging from minor surges to nearly four amps — a magnitude dangerous enough to indicate a utility-side grounding fault or interference. These readings were documented with certified meters, photographs, and logs.
Then came the air events. Sensors recorded spikes of nitrogen dioxide, ammonia, hydrogen sulfide, volatile organic compounds, and rapid humidity fluctuations. These atmospheric events were not random; they occurred in identifiable bursts, often aligning with nighttime hours or periods when electrical abnormalities surged.
Alongside these environmental changes, RF detection equipment began registering emissions in and around fixtures, walls, and utility points. The same types of unexplained RF signatures later appeared inside Taylor’s vehicles, including one that had been seized and held by the City.
And then came the human toll. Taylor and a medically vulnerable co-occupant began suffering symptoms that matched the environmental data: chest tightening, neurological disruptions, dizziness, severe sinus and throat irritation, involuntary muscle contractions, inflammation, and cognitive impairment. Emergency room visits and physician referrals corroborated the severity of the symptoms.
Every anomaly — electrical, chemical, biological — began after the warrant execution. None existed beforehand.
See more about Daevon J Taylor electrical and chemical events HERE ,
Download Taylor's verified complaint with Exhibits Below
The City’s Response: Obstruction, Retaliation, and Silence
Instead of investigating the environmental dangers, correcting the electrical hazards, or disclosing the records Taylor repeatedly requested under the California Public Records Act, Los Angeles agencies began acting in ways disturbingly familiar to those who had previously crossed paths with Officer Choi.
LADWP refused to release technical data, even after acknowledging that responsive records existed. LAPD withheld body-camera footage, dispatch logs, and internal communications. LADOT impounded Taylor’s vehicle shortly after he began requesting documentation related to the raid. CPRA requests across four departments were delayed, ignored, or improperly closed. And in the most alarming act of retaliation, LADWP shut off all power to Taylor’s home — despite the fact that the environmental hazards were originating from outside the residence. The disconnection only worsened the danger: stray current continued to enter the home even with the power disabled, indicating the source was external infrastructure, not internal wiring. The message was unmistakable. The City would rather retaliate than reveal the truth.
A Systemic Pattern With a Familiar Signature
The deeper one looks into Choi’s documented misconduct, the more the same pattern emerges: a willingness to use force, a tendency to falsify or distort reports, a disregard for constitutional limits, and a trail of harm that others in the system fail to correct.
In the Moore case, the officer used violence, then attempted to justify it with false accusations.In the eviction case, he removed a man from his home, then retrofitted the story with fabricated crimes.In the wrongful detention, he stopped a man who clearly did not match the suspect description and defended it with flimsy reasoning.
Every incident reveals the same formula: act first, justify later, conceal whenever possible.
Taylor’s experience fits this pattern too well for coincidence. An unlawful warrant. A prolonged and unexplained presence in his home. A cascade of environmental and electrical hazards that only began afterward. A constellation of agencies responding not with transparency, but with defensive obstruction. This is no longer a simple misconduct case. It is a story of public danger, government failure, and systemic retaliation — all tracing back to an officer who should never have held the authority he was given.
Below is the Brady tip provided by DDA Anthony Ellis in the pending criminal case
CONCLUSION
The Unanswered Question at the Heart of This Case
Across every document, every measurement, every medical note and legal filing, one question remains unanswered, hanging over the entire situation like a shadow:
Why was a Brady-listed officer with a documented history of violence and dishonesty allowed into a civilian’s home under a defective warrant — and what happened during those seven hours that preceded the environmental collapse that followed?
Until Los Angeles confronts that question, no resident can feel secure in their own home, and no court can rely on any case touched by Officer Justin Choi.
The Sovereign Record will continue uncovering the truth.
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