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Podcast: The Bay
Episode: The Antioch Police Department's Racist Text Messages
Description: This episode contains explicit, racist and offensive language, as well as descriptions of violence.For years, police officers in the city of Antioch used racist and homophobic slurs with their colleagues in text messages, and openly bragged about targeting people of color with violence. These messages were released to the public in a Contra Costa County District Attorney report last week. These racist texts were released as the department is already being investigated by federal authorities, and as a grand jury considers charging officers with fraud, assault under color of authority, bribery, and other charges. <...