After recent revelations of racist text messages involving more than a dozen of its officers, the Antioch Police Department is now the subject of a lawsuit alleging race-based brutality.
It is unclear whether the officers involved in the brutality case, still unnamed, were also implicated in the investigation into the racist messages.
Those texts caused an uproar in Antioch, leading to a raucous City Council meeting in which Thorpe engaged in a heated exchange with a commenter whom he accused of using “dog whistle” racist language.What L.A. residents have to say about police, public safety and racism among officers. At a subsequent meeting, the City Council voted unanimously to audit the Police Department’s Internal Affairs Unit, its hiring and promotional practices, and the existing culture inside the department.
An unknown number of cases that relied on testimony by the officers involved in the texting scandal may also be up for review and possible dismissal or re-sentencing.
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