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Marisela Granados, a server who started working as a cashier at the Pantry 26 years ago, said she was offered $20,000, which she said was a pittance for all her years of service.

Wednesday, Granados and dozens of Pantry workers picketed the diner, holding signs that read, “We Are the Pantry.”

The case began in the fall of 2019, when the eight East L.A. deputies — Art Hernandez, Alfred Gonzalez, Benjamin Zaredini, David Casas, Louis Granados, Mario Contreras, Oscar Escobedo and Ariela Lemus — sued both the county and four alleged Banditos.

The lawsuits, filed against Dr. Hector Granados and Dr. May Lau, call both doctors “radical gender activists,” and seek to revoke their medical licenses.

Neither Granados or Lau responded to a request for comment before this story's publication.