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A federal jury rejected a Venice surfer’s claim that two LAPD officers unnecessarily punched and pepper-sprayed him in 2006, after he refused to follow a lifeguard’s orders to leave the water.

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Falk’s chief witness was “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” actress Jorja Fox, who said she had come to the Venice surf spot just before the confrontation took place.

She testified that she saw the police officers from the Venice Beach Foot Patrol handcuff Falk and “punch him in the face.” She also said the officers “sprayed a substance in his face” from a distance of about a foot. Fox said she never saw any resistance from Falk.

“I was upset by what I’d seen,” she told jurors.

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