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POST revokes certification of Torrance officer Blake Williams after review of discriminatory messages
Summary
At its March 6, 2025 meeting, the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training adopted the advisory board’s unanimous recommendation to revoke the POST certification of former Torrance officer Blake Williams after staff presented six discriminatory WhatsApp/text messages the division said met the statutory bias standard.
The Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training voted March 6, 2025, to revoke the POST certificate of former Torrance Police Department officer Blake Williams, adopting the advisory board’s recommendation.
Laura Lynn Kong, a law enforcement consultant assigned to the Los Angeles Professional Conduct Bureau, presented the division’s findings and said the division found reasonable grounds that Williams “sent and/or responded to six text messages” between July 2018 and March 2019 that displayed prejudice on the basis of race, religion and sexual orientation. Kong said the messages included blackface imagery, a…
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