Prosecutor Jordan Sanders declined to cross-examine Kim. Kim said text chains involved supervisors and internal affairs officers "clearly undermines the argument that it's just a few bad apples."
"The officers are bonding and partnering together in using the N-word," Kim said. She said she found a "call-and-response," cadence to the exchanges. "They want to add on other adjectives to further denigrate." "The officers are not satisfied with just the N-word," Kim said. In one exchange involving 24 officers, she found more than a dozen modifiers of the N-word, including "ungrateful (N-word), "body bag (N-word) "huckleberry (N-word)." Kim said she also saw frequent references to Black stereotypes, such as being lazy, oversexualized, homosexual, dirty, unintelligent, violent, and needing violence to be controlled - all labels she said go back to slaves being considered chattel to be bought and sold like livestock. She said she saw police bias in direct language, photos of both animals and injured suspects, frequent use of the N-word (which Kim called "the atomic bomb of racial terms") and dehumanizing language. "This is a particularly disturbing and powerful photo," Kim said. Officers also shared a photoshopped photo of George Floyd - the man killed by Minneapolis police in 2020, causing civil unrest nationwide - with a now-dead naked adult actor on top of him while he was being choked to death. He texted "I was trying to kick his head over the fence." She said Rombough sent officers - including detectives and supervisors - a photo of Allen shirtless in the hospital. She also referred to texts during which indicted Officer Eric Rombough admitted shooting one of the suspects "LOL - I 40'd him right next to his throat" and admitted to kicking Allen in the head. Kim based her testimony on four reports detailing the indictments and text messages, which included photos of Pugh's injured and naked buttocks, with the description "I shot him in the ass" with a 40mm non-lethal projectile. All four remain in custody and were present at Friday's hearing. The suspects, who are Black, are charged with two alleged gang-related murders in 2021 in Antioch. Hearing could reveal fallout from Antioch PD racist texting scandalĪttorneys for Terryonn Pugh, 22, Eric Windom, 23, Keyshawn McGee, 24, and 22-year-old Trent Allen, are challenging the arrests on the relatively new Racial Justice Act law, which allows suspects recourse if their arrest was based on race, ethnicity, or national origin. The hearing in Contra Costa County Superior Court in Martinez was the fourth in the challenge to California's Racial Justice Act.Īmong the evidence in the case are chains of texts messages involving as many as 45 Antioch officers that frequently referred to Black suspects as the N-word, described violence against suspects, threatened Antioch Mayor Lamar Thorpe, who is Black, and referred to then-Police Chief Steven Ford - who is also Black - as a gorilla. Department of Justice in August for civil rights violations. Please read the Conditions Of Use before using these links.Ĭaltrans traffic camera video footage and still images are neither retained nor archived.A race studies expert Friday compared text messages among Antioch police about Black murder suspects to the racist animalization and encouragement of violence typical of lynchings going back to the era of slavery.Ĭlaire Jean Kim, a University of California, Irvine professor of political science and Asian American Studies science who focuses on comparative race studies, testified Friday in court in the case of four Black murder suspects challenging their arrests based on the arresting officers being among 10 Antioch and Pittsburg officers indicted by the U.S. Routes that run in the south to north direction are listed in order starting from the southern-most camera location, and those that run in the west to east direction are listed in order starting from the western-most camera location. The table below contains the links to the Caltrans Live Traffic Cameras. Caltrans Streaming Video Locations Caltrans :: Live Traffic Cameras - Individual Links Description
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