City officials in northern California have voted to audit the troubled police department amid outrage over text messages showing police officers using racist slurs and bragging about making up evidence and beating suspects.
The FBI and the Contra Costa district attorney’s office discovered the shocking messages while investigating officers within the Antioch police department suspected of crimes. Officials have named 17 officers who sent texts, including the president of the Antioch police union, but nearly half the department was included in the messages.
