A civil rights attorney representing multiple plaintiffs in lawsuits against the Antioch Police Department has requested the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate the department, citing the officers as a threat to the city's residents.
A Bay Area civil rights attorney who represents more than a dozen plaintiffs in lawsuits against the Antioch Police Department has asked the U.S. Department of Justice to open an investigation into the police department, calling its officers a “clear and present danger” to the city’s residents.
Burris said his law group already has filed two federal civil rights lawsuits representing 13 plaintiffs, each of whom have alleged violations against the police department. Burris said he and attorney Ben Nisenbaum have interviewed 150 people who could become plaintiffs in later lawsuits, he wrote in the letter sent last week.
“The bias manifested itself in the officers’ interactions with their citizens of color,” he wrote. “Many of whom were wrongly detained, arrested, physically beaten, illegally searched, subjected to intimidation, kidnapping, falsifying reports, physical and canine assaults and verbally abused, as well as disrespected. The police officers also expressed antisemitic and homophobic attitudes in their text messages.
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