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ItsjustMe

(11,971 posts)
Fri Aug 18, 2023, 09:35 AM Aug 2023

FBI arrest California police officers involved in racist text messages scandal.

FBI arrest California police officers involved in racist text messages scandal.

A grand jury had indicted officers from Antioch and Pittsburg for a wide range of offenses, including criminal conspiracy

The FBI arrested nine current and former California police officers on Thursday as part of a major criminal investigation into racist text messages of dozens of law enforcement officials, prosecutors said.

The footage also shows the deputies surrounding another woman and grabbing her baby.
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Early-morning federal raids, first reported by the Bay Area News Group, rounded up officers from Antioch and Pittsburg, two cities east of San Francisco, after they were charged in four grand jury indictments.

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.




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FBI arrest California police officers involved in racist text messages scandal. (Original Post) ItsjustMe Aug 2023 OP
If police departments would clean up their own maybe the public might have a little respect Stargazer99 Aug 2023 #1
kept records and 'trophies' of abuse incidents stopdiggin Aug 2023 #2
I like it republianmushroom Aug 2023 #3

Stargazer99

(3,093 posts)
1. If police departments would clean up their own maybe the public might have a little respect
Fri Aug 18, 2023, 09:40 AM
Aug 2023

for the occupation

stopdiggin

(13,191 posts)
2. kept records and 'trophies' of abuse incidents
Fri Aug 18, 2023, 11:23 AM
Aug 2023

(privately of course) - and destroyed and 'lost' incriminating evidence of themselves and fellow officers. Lied and falsified records and docs. Stole property, distributing illegal drugs ...

But - I think what finally brought them down - was pay scale fraud.
(now that's some criminal sh*t there!)

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