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 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 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.
Arts & Entertainment Larry Wilmore Mocks Oakland's Police Chaos; Former Prostitute Speaks Out About Her Assault Case Against OPD "There's a crazy situation going on in Oakland right now," says comedian Larry Wilmore. "And for once it's not Raiders fans." Now that Oakland cycled through three police chiefs in nine days and
SF News State Says It's OK For Oakland To Put Civilian In Charge Of Police; Sergeant On Leave Was Fired Before The mess in Oakland's law enforcement community only deepens with each day, and Monday there was a brief dustup between Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf and the California state commission on peace officer standards
SF News Oakland Loses Third Police Chief In A Week Amid Brand New Racist Texting Scandal For an idea about the rank and file's opinion on Paul Figueroa: this was making the rounds in #OPS social circles pic.twitter.com/qyWyF446eR— Ali Winston (@awinston) June 18, 2016 Wow, Oakland.
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 Former SFPD Lieutenant At Center Of Second Racist Text Scandal Arrested For Obstructing Rape Probe There's been a second arrest in the San Francisco Police Department's alleged rape/racist text scandal: This time it's the Lieutenant who oversaw the alleged rapist/racist texter who now faces charges of
