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The Los Angeles Police did not consider that the actress Amber Heard was a victim of domestic violence when she went to the apartment she shared with fellow actor Johnny Depp after an argument in 2016.

In a new day of litigation between the two actors, the Fairfaix County Court, Virginia, screened a video statement by the agent, Melissa Sáenz , who went to the residence upon receiving an emergency call.

“I did not identify her as a victim of domestic violence”, answered the police when asked why they did not activate the domestic violence protocol ( term that in the US is also used for sexist violence).

According to Sáenz, the visit by the authorities to the apartment that the couple shared in downtown Los Angeles lasted less than 20 minutes and occurred on the night of 21 May 2016, a date on which I ard had previously said that she was beaten by Depp.

After the visit, the Los Angeles Police (LAPD) closed the case because “no crime” had been committed, said the interrogated agent, who He added that no photos of the scene were taken.

During the interrogation, which was recorded on 31 March 2021, Heard’s lawyers showed some photos in which the actress came out with a reddened face and that supposedly corresponded to that night, but the agent insisted in which no “signs of violence” were found.

“It is consistent with her crying, her face is flushed”

Melissa Sáenz

The statement comes a day after Depp ended his four days of oral testimony, in which he defended that “he has never hit a woman” and presented himself as a victim of domestic violence who received attacks from Heard.

Depp, who accused He gave the court dressed in a suit and with sunglasses, he was cheered on several times by the public present in the room, mostly followers of the actor, who came from places as remote as Australia, according to what they told the local press.

Heard was also present, whose statement is expected in the coming weeks.

In litigation, Depp accuses his ex-wife of defamation for an article she published in The Washington Post in 2018, after his divorce, in which he claimed to have suffered “domestic abuse”.

The actor asks his ex-partner for $50 million dollars in damages.

For her part, Heard has responded with a counterclaim in which she alleges that Depp has promoted a campaign of defamation against him and claims $50 million dollars.

It is the first time that the two celebrities have faced each other yes to justice: in the trial held in 2020 in London, and which Depp lost, the actress attended as a witness, since the accusation was against the British newspaper The Sun for an article that described the actor as an “aggressor of women”.

By Scribe