The officers made racist jokes, talked about targeting Black people for violence, made light of George Floyd's murder, and lamented that they couldn't beat suspects more when officers with body cameras were around.
In a move that deepened the scandals engulfing the Antioch police department, a Contra Costa County judge on Friday released the names of 17 city police officers accused of using racist slurs, jokes and memes in text messages over a period of more than two years.