Racist texts show Torrance police discussed killing suspects
Eight months after The Times revealed racist texts by Torrance police officers, city officials have done little to hold them accountable.
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Eight months after The Times revealed racist texts by Torrance police officers, city officials have done little to hold them accountable.
Police in Torrance, California have been fighting against the messages being released.
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 25 (Xinhua) -- New racist texts revealed that police officers in Southern California's city of Torrance talked about hurting and killing Black suspects, said an investigative report published by the Los Angeles Times on Thursday.
More than a dozen current and former Torrance, Calif., police officers and recruits exchanged racist text messages for years. The discovery could undermine hundreds of cases in which those officers either testified or made arrests.
The family of a 23-year-old man shot and killed by Torrance Police officers on December 9, 2018, held a vigil Thursday, three years after the shooting death.