A grand jury had indicted officers from Antioch and Pittsburg for a wide range of offenses, including criminal conspiracy.
The arrests come after revelations that Antioch officers sent violently racist, misogynistic and anti-gay text messages between 2019 and 2022. The hateful messages emerged as part of an inquiry by federal officials and local prosecutors investigating claims of widespread** civil rights violations, excessive force and falsification of records**.
Officers were exposed referring to Black people as “gorillas” and bragging about beating up local residents and fabricating evidence. Some group texts included supervisors. In April, it was revealed that more than 45 officers, representing nearly half of Antioch’s police department, were implicated in racist behavior.
Looks like the whole bunch already spoiled.
Some of those who work forces are the same that burn crosses
Now do Mississippi and Alabama
Oh hey, we have a very similar case going on in the UK too.
I’m not surprised. Antioch/Pittsburg is right at the line where the Bay Area starts turning into the Trump country of the Central Valley, and despite its reputation of being a bastion of liberal thought, Northern California has a really ugly undercurrent of “good ole boy” racism the further you go east and north.
Good for the FBI. Go feds.
