Racist text messages between members of a San Francisco Bay Area police department was the subject of a Friday court hearing on possible violations of a state law aimed at stamping out racism in the criminal justice system
FILE - Community members listen to speakers during a rally at Antioch police headquarters in Antioch, Calif., on April 18, 2023. Racist police text messages containing slurs and images of gorillas will take center stage in a San Francisco Bay Area courtroom on Friday, July 21, 2023, as a judge weighs whether the messages violated a state law designed to stamp out racism in the criminal court system. MARTINEZ, Calif.
In addition to the officers who may testify Friday, five others who were subpoenaed have claimed they were injured on the job and are not medically cleared to testify. Caramagno said she also wanted to ask Ford why he signed off on declarations stating that five officers had suffered an “industrial injury” and could not appear, when an investigator for the defense had seen some of them looking “quite healthy,” “having pool parties,” and “walking briskly.”
Two of the defendants, Trent Allen and Terryon Pugh, were the subjects of some of the released text messages. Officers joked about kicking their heads and shooting them in the neck and buttocks. They also shared photos of Allen and Pugh injured in their hospital beds.
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