Outside police department headquarters, a small crowd of residents, organizers and activists gathered peacefully Tuesday afternoon to register sorrow and outrage, as well as resolve toward change, …
ANTIOCH — Outside police headquarters, a small crowd of residents, organizers and activists gathered peacefully Tuesday afternoon to register sorrow and outrage, as well as resolve toward change, before marching together toward City Hall to attend a scheduled City Council meeting.
Kathryn Wade, whose son, Malad Baldwin, sued the city in 2015 after Antioch officers beat and injured him said she is still waiting on an autopsy after Baldwin’s death in 2021. “The officers’ texts about my baby made me feel like he died all over again,” Wade said. “The boasting and bragging about what you did to people is so heartbreaking. The threats you make on this community, Black and Brown , something needs to be done.
The action comes after this news organization last week obtained and published material from two reports compiled by the Contra Costa District Attorney’s Office that identified officers — including sergeants and gang unit detectives — who shared deeply racist and homophobic messages and memes, boasted about falsifying arrest reports and made light of violence against residents.
Pointer, a civil rights attorney who has filed suits against Antioch police, talked to the crowd about the problem of police culture and racism.
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