Mel Gibson May Be Witness in Discrimination Trial

The L.A. County Sheriff’s Deputy from the Malibu/Lost Hills Station who arrested Mel Gibson for a  DUI in 2006 will take his harassment case against the department before a jury, and the actor may be called to testify.

James Mee, 56, who is Jewish, claims that after the 2006 arrest of Gibson, supervisors at the Malibu/Lost Hills Station attempted to cover up for Gibson by declaring that he was arrested “without incident.”

According to Mee, he was ordered to remove four pages from his police report which detailed Gibson’s numerous anti-Semitic slurs.

The four-pages were subsequently obtained and published by TMZ.

Mee alleges he was the target of a four-year inconclusive criminal investigation by the department into the leak that included search warrants, transfers, being passed-over for promotion, and other forms of harassment.

Mee’s attorney, Etan Z Lorant said that Mee wants his reputation with the department to be restored and hopes the lawsuit will resolve that. He is also seeking unspecified damages for loss of income, medical expenses, emotional distress, and mental suffering.

County attorneys have denied that Mee suffered discrimination.

Sheriff Lee Baca and up to twenty-six other people may also testify.

The trial is scheduled to begin on February 14, 2012.