Antioch divided over councilwoman’s outcry against police handling of her sons [East Bay Times]
Jan. 14 An Antioch councilwoman’s recent social media outcry against the aggressive way she says police police treated her sons unleashed a torrent of supportive and critical public comments at a City Council meeting Tuesday.
Although the council took no action, the comments elicited a promise to consider ordering police body and dashboard cameras.
Councilwoman Tamisha Torres-Walker, who is Black and represents District 1, took to Facebook in a tearful, profanity-laced video shortly after police stopped her 23-year-old and 13-year-old sons on Dec. 29 for riding off-road vehicles on city streets. She accused the officers of overreacting and trying to run over her 13-year-old son and later handcuffing him after her older son escaped.