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Another racist texting scandal has hit the Bay Area, this time in the South Bay. An officer, who has now resigned according to the East Bay Times, is accused of making racist comments about Black people, including the use of slurs and generalizations. In an exchange, one text blatantly reads, "I hate black people."
K'aun Green is suing the city of San Jose, saying he was shot by police and later criminalized after a taqueria brawl during which he disarmed a man he feared might shoot him and his friends.
Alameda County has agreed to pay an unprecedented $7 million to the children of an Oakland man left languishing in his jail cell for three to four days before he was finally discovered dead, KTVU has learned.
Maurice Monk, 45, of Oakland, died face down in his single-person cell at Santa Rita Jail, where he'd spent three to four days without being checked on by jail staff.
The family of an Oakland banker shot and killed by his neighbor while he was doing yard work has been awarded $2.4 million in a settlement following his death.