Five San Francisco officers found exchanging racist, homophobic texts
Five San Francisco officers found exchanging racist, homophobic texts - Five added San Francisco badge admiral accept been begin to be exchanging racist and homophobic argument letters with one another, banishment a analysis of hundreds of bent cases that may be compromised by their bias, the city's arch prosecutor said on Thursday.
The acknowledgment by District Attorney George Gascon came a year afterwards 14 added associates of the San Francisco Badge Administration were bent up in a agnate texting scandal.
The latest analysis alike amidst acute analysis of badge encounters with associates of boyhood groups afterward abundant high-profile killings of caught atramentous humans by badge beyond the United States back mid-2014.
Gascon said he recommended in a letter on Wednesday to city-limits Badge Arch Gregory Suhr that the 5 anew active admiral be assigned to board assignment to abstain abacus to the abeyant caseloads attenuated by claimed bent credible in their argument messages.
The dozens of racist and anti-gay texts were unearthed in a analysis of 5,000 pages of actual angry over by badge in an different investigation, Gascon said in a blast interview.
With some 20,000 added pages still to be examined, Gascon said added admiral may be implicated.
"While the majority of San Francisco Badge Administration admiral are accomplished men and women who serve with distinction, we cannot accept this affectionate of conduct aural the bent amends system," he said.
Prosecutors accept a assignment to accompany the biased texts to the absorption of aegis attorneys whose audience were answerable in cases that were handled by the 5 admiral and area bigotry on the base of chase or animal acclimatization could be at issue, Gascon said.
"They accommodate affirmation of ancestral bias, which is amiss affirmation to the prosecution," he added.
The admiral of the San Francisco Badge Officers' Association union, Martin Halloran, accursed "the alarming racist behavior committed by a scattering of officers," in a account quoted by account media.
The conduct in catechism ran from 2014 to backward 2015, overlapping with the time anatomy of endure year's badge texting scandal, although Gascon said there was no credible affiliation amid the two.
The badge administration approved to blaze seven of the aboriginal accumulation of 14 officers, but a adjudicator disqualified adjoin the dismissals, citation the statute of limitations.
The antecedent aspersion resulted in a analysis of 4,000 cases, including 1,600 in which accuse were brought, with 13 dismissals so far, city-limits prosecutors said.
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