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California court will consider anti-discrimination law in hearing over racist texts by officers

Racist text messages between members of a San Francisco Bay Area police department will be the subject of a court hearing on possible violations of a state law aimed at stamping out racism in the criminal justice system

The Independent UK · Jul 21, 2023

Racist texts by California police lead to federal lawsuit

A San Francisco Bay Area police department embroiled in a racist text scandal was hit with a federal lawsuit Wednesday

The Independent UK · Apr 20, 2023

New text messages show Antioch gang unit boasted about injuring suspects, kicking heads like a ‘field goal’

ANTIOCH, Calif. — A gang unit detective sent racist and homophobic text messages to fellow officers and boasted about shooting Black men with rubber bullets and kicking one man’s head like a “field goal,” according to a trove of new text messages obtained by this news organization.

Tribune News Service · Apr 13, 2023