LIVE VIDEO: Civil rights attorney John Burris announces a federal lawsuit against the city of Antioch in the wake of a police texting scandal.
On Monday, the Contra Costa County District Attorney's Office released a 14-page report describing racist and homophobic text messages among at least 23 officers. Some described violence against arrestees. At least one threatened Antioch's Mayor Lamar Thorpe, who is Black.One of the reports released Monday details messages among eight officers during a conversation about two suspects in a criminal case in March 2021.
"We managed to set up a perimeter and he got his a-- whooped in the back yard and I field goal kicked his head," Rombough allegedly texted.Another report describes messages from 2019 and 2020, including one from Officer John Ramirez in which he seems to encourage others to fire a less-lethal weapon at Thorpe during a protest in 2020.
Ramirez allegedly texted to 22 officers that he would"buy someone a prime rib dinner" to"40" Thorpe, a reference to a 40mm launcher used by the department. At least 45 police officers were on chains of racist, homophobic and threatening text messages that are part of a wider civil rights investigation into Antioch police, Contra Costa County Public Defender Ellen McDonnell told the Antioch City Council on Tuesday night.
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