Several of the officers connected to the texting have also been previously sued for alleged excessive force, false arrest, and wrongful death, according to court records. “I don’t know that we can take anything they’ve said at face value.” “What those text messages revealed was an extraordinarily hostile attitude toward people of color, people who are nonbinary, people who have different sexual orientations,” Walter Katz, a former independent police auditor in California who now serves as a vice president of criminal justice for research firm Arnold Ventures, told the paper. The officers were listed as potential witnesses in almost 1,400 cases over the last decade, according to the Times’ investigation. ![]() That includes 35 county felony cases and 50 city cases. ![]() No officers are currently facing charges related to the text messages, but about 85 criminal cases that involved the officers have so far been dismissed. The officer replied back that he would smash “a tail light on his car so the police will stop him and shoot him.” Other messages include a photo of Black men who had been lynched that was captioned, "Hanging with the homies." Another text asked what would happen if one of the officers’ girlfriends had an affair with a Black man.
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