This is what we know so far about the Antioch Police Department racist text messaging scandal.
The messages suggest police are complicit in potential abuses of authority, civil rights violations, perjury, and other incidents that "may have violated the Racial Justice Act" – a new state law that allows people charged or convicted of crimes to challenge the results of the case if racial bias was involved – the report states.
The Contra Costa County DA’s office said the investigation into the officers’ alleged misconduct involved "crimes of moral turpitude." The investigation into the Pittsburg Police Department involves three officers who were placed on paid leave pending the results of the investigation. The department said it received a tip in September 2021 that some of its officers were involved in illegal activity.
APD presently has 99 sworn officers and 45 of them are named in the DA's report for sending or receiving offensive texts. The president of the city's police union, Rick Hoffman, is one of the officers on the DA's list. Hoffman did not respond to a request for comment. Contained within the DA's report were photos of gorillas in reference to Black people, sexist comments and homophobic and racist slurs, such as the n-word.
Another officer seemed to rejoice in the fact that there isn't video surveillance of all their activities which would capture their interactions with suspects. "We're not going to pretend that we have a few issues with a few bad apples," Thorpe said. "It is clear we have cultural and systemic problems that persist to this very day." Antioch Mayor Lamar Thorpe said he was combating dog-whistle racism and apologists at Tuesday night's city council meeting when he became emotional.
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