LOS ANGELES — The day after Torrance police shot Christopher DeAndre Mitchell in 2018, his mother and a dozen of his loved ones staged a protest outside the department's headquarters.
At the same time, a group of officers — including the two who had killed Mitchell — were discussing the situation via text message.
"Was going to tell you all those (N-word) family members are all pissed off in front of the station," one wrote, according to court documents recently reviewed by the Los Angeles Times.
