Newly Released Texts From LA County Cops Included Racist Imagery and Slurs
These new messages are part of an exhibit submitted by the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office in response to a subpoena that included bigoted texts, comments about lynching suspects and killing Black children and racist cartoons.
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The Los Angeles Times has released additional racist text messages sent by police in Torrance, California, following their 2021 investigation into racist and homphobic messages sent by officers that led to a series of dismissed criminal cases and at least one person released from prison. In a particularly shocking example, after the police killing of Christopher DeAndre Mitchell in 2018, officers texted flippantly about forming a ‘firing squad’ for when the names of officers involved were released and called Mitchell’s family heinous racial slurs. These new messages are part of an exhibit submitted by the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office in response to a subpoena that included bigoted texts, comments about lynching suspects and killing Black children and racist cartoons, the LA Times reports.
