SF News 13 Antioch Police Officers Fired or Resigned As Racist Text Scandal Fallout Continues A number of Antioch Police Department officers are facing federal charges over racist texts and violent behavior on the job, and the city just cleaned house of many of them, with a total of 13 officers either being fired or resigning because the hammer was about to come down on them.
SF News Feds Detail Charges Against Antioch, Pittsburg Cops: Dealing Steroids, Siccing K9 on Suspects, Faking College Credits We now know that ten Antioch and Pittsburg police officers were arrested in Thursday’s FBI raids, and on top of the racist text messages, we have allegations of steroid dealing, intentional dog attacks, and faking college credits.
SF News Several Antioch and Pittsburg Police Officers Arrested In Early Thursday Morning FBI Raids Some serious rubber hit the road in the ongoing Antioch Police Department scandal, as the FBI arrested and indicted a handful of both Antioch and Pittsburg PD officers on criminal conspiracy charges early Thursday morning.
SF News Antioch Police Chief Abruptly Announces Retirement Amid Racist Text Scandal Ahead of legal proceedings set to begin this Friday over the Antioch Police Department’s racist texting scandal, Antioch Police Chief Steven Ford unexpectedly announced his retirement on Wednesday.
SF News Five Officers In Antioch Police Scandal Won’t Show For Hearing, Claiming They Have ‘Industrial Injuries’ Hearings begin Friday in a Contra Costa County Superior Court over the Antioch PD’s racist text message scandal, but five officers will resist their subpoenas, claiming they are too injured to testify.
SF News AG Bonta Launches State Investigation Into Scandal-Plagued Antioch PD, Says ‘We're Moving In’ As the Antioch police scandals of racist text messages and alleged cocaine distribution get worse, state Attorney General Rob Bonta declares, “We're going to get to the bottom of what's happening in the Antioch Police Department."
SF News Two Congressional Reps Call for DOJ Probe Into Scandal-Plagued Antioch Police Department As the Antioch Police Department faces a slew of allegations of wrongdoing from distributing cocaine, to accepting bribes, to having a trove of racist text messages recently exposed, two Bay Area congressional reps are calling for a Department of Justice investigation.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Contra Costa Co. DA Releases Report on Antioch Police Scandal A new report details the content of the Antioch police officers' racist texts; SF is adding a new transitional housing complex on Treasure Island; and RH is having layoffs up in Marin County.
SF News Another Racist Police Text Scandal Hits In Antioch, Mayor Goes Apoplectic Antioch mayor Lamar Thorpe is justifiably upset that his city’s police officers offered among themselves a “prime rib dinner” to any cop who’d shoot at him, but his yelling “'You want to go? Let's go!” during a city council meeting has raised a few eyebrows.
SF News Judge Releases Names of 17 Antioch Police Officers Accused in Racist Text Scandal Uncovered by FBI Probe Antioch Mayor Lamar Thorpe addressed the scandal Saturday, calling it "embarrassing" and saying it poses "a huge financial and legal liability" as racist texts jeopardize several cases.
SF News SFPD Doesn't Have A Racism Problem, Says SFPD With the recent officer-involved shooting of yet another person of color providing yet another example of what some claim to be institutional racism in the San Francisco Police Department, five officers spoke with
SF News [Update] SFPD Officers Report Colleague For Racist Remarks In early February, the San Francisco Police Department says it learned from two officers at its Bayview Station that another officer had used "inappropriate language" with "sexual and racial undertones." Maybe the SFPD
SF News Here Are All Of The Ridiculously Racist And Offensive Texts Recently Uncovered In Latest SFPD Probe On Friday, embattled SFPD Chief Greg Suhr released a new, or expanded batch of offensive text messages sent between officers that were uncovered in a recent sexual assault investigation of one former officer,
SF News Newest Batch Of Racist SFPD Texts Might Be Worse Than The Last One, 207 Cases Under Scrutiny Hey, remember former San Francisco Police Department officer Jason Lai? He's the guy who, during an investigation of his alleged rape of a San Francisco woman, sent numerous racist and homophobic text messages.
