ANTIOCH, Calif. — For years, Antioch Police Department officers routinely used private text messaging groups to flout their racist views, using slurs in front of superiors without fear of reprisal.
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.
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Records released by the city show no discipline against any officers in the dozens of shootings and great bodily injury force incidents, nor a process of review typical of most police departments.