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Racist texts allegedly sent by SF officers released
http://www.sfexaminer.com/racist-texts-allegedly-sent-sf-officers-released/The text messages compared blacks to animals and made light of shootings. They called Latinos “beaners” and targeted gay officers. And all of them were sent by San Francisco police officers.
Such are the contents of the latest bigoted text messages to come out of the San Francisco Police Department — released in detail Tuesday — which are one more piece of evidence that The City’s Police Department has a culture that condones bias, said Public Defender Jeff Adachi.
Adachi released the texts after receiving them through discovery in a related criminal case from the District Attorney’s Office, which first made the existence of the texts public last month but did not release the content of the messages. The case involved Officer Jason Lai, who was under investigation for an alleged sexual assault....
“There is a problem in the SFPD and I don’t think Chief (Greg) Suhr can contest that,” Adachi said. “It would be naive to believe these officers’ bigotry was reserved solely for text messages. It is a window into the biases they harbored. It likely influenced who they stopped, who they searched, who they arrested, and how they testified in criminal trials.”
Such are the contents of the latest bigoted text messages to come out of the San Francisco Police Department — released in detail Tuesday — which are one more piece of evidence that The City’s Police Department has a culture that condones bias, said Public Defender Jeff Adachi.
Adachi released the texts after receiving them through discovery in a related criminal case from the District Attorney’s Office, which first made the existence of the texts public last month but did not release the content of the messages. The case involved Officer Jason Lai, who was under investigation for an alleged sexual assault....
“There is a problem in the SFPD and I don’t think Chief (Greg) Suhr can contest that,” Adachi said. “It would be naive to believe these officers’ bigotry was reserved solely for text messages. It is a window into the biases they harbored. It likely influenced who they stopped, who they searched, who they arrested, and how they testified in criminal trials.”
edit: Link to racist texts here.
http://s79f01z693v3ecoes3yyjsg1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Racist-texts.pdf
