The Los Angeles Football Club is being sued by a woman who alleges she was grabbed up by a security guard and caused to fall down two rows of stadium seating during a 2021 game between the home team and the Los Angeles Galaxy.
Luz Rubira’s Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit alleges assault and battery, intentional and negligent infliction of emotional distress, negligent hiring training and supervision. Rubira seeks unspecified compensatory and punitive damages.
An LAFC representative did not immediately reply to a request for comment on the suit brought Wednesday.
Rubira and her son went to the Aug. 28, 2021, match at what was then known as Banc of California, the suit states. During the game, one of the security guards came to the section where Rubira and her son were seated and “falsely, and without provocation or reason” accused Rubira’s offpsring of throwing a cup of beer and began trying to approach and remove him, the suit states.
Rubira’s seat was between her son and the guard and she was caught standing in between both, according to the suit.
“Then suddenly, without warning or reason, (the guard) physically seized plaintiff by her arm and with excessive force, violently threw her aside in his attempts to reach plaintiff’s son…” the suit states.
Rubira fell down at least two rows of seats and sustained severe injuries as well as emotional distress, the suit alleges.
The LAFC should have known that the guard was incompetent or unfit for the job, the suit states.
The Figueroa Street venue that is home to the LAFC is now the BMO Stadium.