“When you have 17 members of the Antioch Police Department offering free dinner to whoever shoots the mayor, how can you expect any of them to honestly keep him, let alone anyone else, safe?”
Rev. Al Sharpton on Tuesday urged U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland and the Department of Justice to investigate the Antioch Police Department and provide security to Mayor Lamar Thorpe in the wake of exhaustive reports which uncovered a swath of racist text conversations by dozens of the city's officers.
A joint investigation by the FBI and Contra Costa County District Attorney in April, first reported by the East Bay Times last week, found volumes of racist text records between as much as half of Antioch’s police force over the span of 2019 to 2022.
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