The Antioch City Council will meet on Tuesday to review the current system of overseeing the police department.
Mayor Lamar Thorpe has already called for an independent audit of the police department's Internal Affairs process.
That followed a judge's decision last week to release the names of 17 Antioch police officers accused of exchanging racist text messages. reported the names include Rick Hoffman, president of Antioch’s police union. as well as five officers already under investigation by the FBI for alleged crimes. Those five are: Devon Wenger, Eric Rombough, Andrea Rodriguez, Calvin Prieto and Morteza Amiri.
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