Nine former and current police officers are facing widespread corruption charges in Northern California after participating in years of suspected misdeeds including wire fraud, destroying evidence and planned racially-motived police brutality, a federal prosecutor announced this week.
Following a series of FBI raids across three states in which nine officers were arrested Thursday, Ismail J. Ramsey, the U.S. Attorney for California’s Northern District, said the defendants − named in four separate indictments − “acted as though they were above the law.”
Officers from two police departments in Antioch and Pittsburg – cities in San Francisco’s Bay Area − also face allegations they falsified records to receive raises, conspired to illegally distribute drugs and violated citizens’ civil rights.
In other cases, authorities said, officers deployed police dogs on at least two dozen occasions to purposely harm people.
Nine defendants − five Antioch officers and four Pittsburg cops − as well as one Antioch community service officer, participated in the alleged crimes, which prosecutors say took place across Contra Costa County, just to the east of San Francisco.
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Source : GNN Liberia
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