News San Francisco police under fire for racist texts

[brassmonkey]

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? The original charges were shocking: Six San Francisco police officers were accused of stealing from drug dealers. Then federal prosecutors released racist and homophobic text messages.

Those texts have now turned a small-time police corruption case into a racially charged scandal, thrusting a diverse and liberal city into the national debate over policing in minority communities.

"We now know this can happen in San Francisco," San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon said. "We're certainly not immune to the problems that we have seen in Baltimore, Staten Island, South Carolina."

The San Francisco turmoil comes amid growing tensions between police departments and communities of color. Large, sometimes violent protests over police treatment of black suspects have occurred in several cities over the last two years.

That has put police under a microscope. Three Fort Lauderdale, Florida, police officers were fired last month and a fourth resigned after they were found to have exchanged racist messages about colleagues and the predominantly black neighborhood they patrolled.

In San Francisco, Police Chief Greg Suhr has moved to fire eight officers, two of whom have since retired. Six others also are facing some kind of discipline.

The district attorney, meanwhile, is looking into whether the department's racial problems run deeper than the officers implicated.

"In the process of looking at the text messages, increasingly I became uneasy that this may not be localized to the 14 officers that were being reported, but that we may have some systemic issues," Gascon said.

San Francisco Police spokesman Albie Esparza says the department supports the district attorney's examination, but disputes any suggestion that the police force of 2,100 sworn officers may suffer from systemic racism.

"This was an isolated incident," Esparza said. "To say it's systemic is unfounded."

The San Francisco police department hasn't faced widespread allegations of discrimination since Officers for Justice, a group of minority officers, sued the department in 1973. After the Department of Justice joined the lawsuit, the department settled the case in 1979 and agreed to hire more minorities and women. Nearly half of the sworn officers are minorities today.

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[Grapesoda]

Originally Posted by brassmonkey

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[baddog]

Originally Posted by brassmonkey

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? The original charges were shocking: Six San Francisco police officers were accused of stealing from drug dealers. Then federal prosecutors released racist and homophobic text messages.

You really think they are afraid of homosexuals?

[brassmonkey]

Originally Posted by baddog

You really think they are afraid of homosexuals?

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) = Associated Press
go ask them

[escorpio]

Too bad they're not black female professors at Boston University. Then they would be allowed to spew all the racial hatred they wanted.

Fury over Boston University professor's tweets - CNN.com

[brassmonkey]

Originally Posted by escorpio

Too bad they're not black female professors at Boston University. Then they would be allowed to spew all the racial hatred they wanted.

Fury over Boston University professor's tweets - CNN.com

an article about racist tweets with this at the end

As of fall 2014, Boston University's full-time faculty was 2.8% black, 3.6% Hispanic and 1% multiracial, Riley said. The domestic student body was 4.7% black, 9.3% Hispanic and 3.4% multiracial.
racist pursuing racist

[SilentKnight]

Originally Posted by Grapesoda

[crockett]

Originally Posted by Grapesoda

Looks like the cops already got a hold of this one. Look at the red mark on his forehead. They probably tossed him on the ground to steal his candy..

[RyuLion]

[SilentKnight]

Originally Posted by crockett

Looks like the cops already got a hold of this one. Look at the red mark on his forehead. They probably tossed him on the ground to steal his candy..

Naw, they were showing him what to expect if he behaved like his daddy.

[nico-t]

Race: check.
Police: check.
Murder: nope.

this thread is not Brassmonkey in top form, but 66% success rate with your copy & paste checklist is pretty decent. Keep it up bro