California’s attorney general has opened a civil rights investigation of the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office amid allegations of excessive force against detainees and inhumane conditions in county jail facilities.
“We all benefit when there is action to ensure the integrity of policing in our state,” Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta said. “It is time for us to shine a light on the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office and its practices.”
“That’s just one data point and it’s unacceptable,” he told reporters at his office in downtown Los Angeles.The ACLU of Southern California and a coalition of community organizations urged Bonta in ato investigate the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office for alleged “racist policing practices, rampant patrol and jail deaths” and other suspected misconduct.
The groups pointed in the letter to what they claimed was a culture of “secrecy, violence, and disrespect for the lives of incarcerated people” among Riverside deputies. Detainees have been denied soap, regular showers, clean clothes and face masks for protection against the coronavirus, the groups told Bonta.
Riverside County sheriff was once a member of an extremist group with ties to the Jan. 6 insurrection
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