8 San Francisco police officers expected to be fired over racist, homophobic texts

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Eight San Francisco police officers implicated in sending and receiving racist and homophobic text messages have been suspended and are expected to be fired... The ugly messages, which were discovered during a federal corruption probe, implicated a captain, a sergeant and six other officers... Authorities said the messages included offensive comments about homosexuals, Mexicans and Filipinos and were sent or received by as many as 14 officers in the department between 2011 and 2012, according to the New York Times. The officers involved in the scandal had been on the force for up to 23 years and several had worked in predominantly minority neighborhoods, according to the Times. http://ift.tt/1HBScsr

Texts by San Francisco police trigger case reviews.



A sample of the text messages from S.F. officers (court document):



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