Nine current and former California police officers are accused of committing civil rights violations and fraud in an effort to get a pay raise and lied on reports to cover up the use of excessive force.
Tripp said the arrests were the result of a two-year investigation.
In obscenity-laden text messages, the three men referred to some suspects as “gorillas.” They laughed and joked about harming people who apparently had surrendered or appeared to be asleep by setting Amiri's police dog on them or Rombough shooting them with a 40mm"less-lethal" projectile launcher, the indictment said.
In one case, a man suspected of five armed robberies had given up and was lying on the ground when Amiri’s K-9 bit him, the indictment alleged.Amiri says that he will find some action and write up the police report, adding:"Just come over and crush some skulls."
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