“The way I’m being painted is not who I am,” the officer said in an interview with the Bay Area News Group.
The recently fired Oakland police officer accused of posting racist messages to Facebook a dozen years ago tearfully denied having authored the statements that appeared to often target Black people and Guatemalans with slurs and expletives.. The 30-year-old officer, Jocelyn Chang Newman, was a February 2023 graduate of the police department’s 190th Basic Recruit Academy and had been working on patrol, though it’s unclear where in the city she worked.
“I just don’t have the words, because I’m speechless,” she added. “The way I’m being painted is not who I am.” “We’re going to do every single thing we can to get to the bottom of this,” Interim Assistant Chief Trevelyon Jones said in a recorded statement. “We have to have people here at the Oakland Police Department that love Oakland and care about the community. We cannot have people here who hold racist, hateful views serving our community.”
The Oakland Police Officers’ Association declined to comment. Michael Rains, an attorney who represents the Oakland Police Officers Association, said that his firm generally does not represent people who are fired while on probationary status.“I want to clear my name, that’s all I want,” she added. “Because the truth has to come out. And this has just blown out of proportion.”
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