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Chief tells commission 8 officers suspended after review of biased text messages; two have resigned
Summary
Chief reported the department identified 14 members for review related to inflammatory text messages; 8 members are suspended and forwarded to the commission with termination recommendations, two among them have resigned; others face reassignment or short suspensions.
The San Francisco Police Department has suspended eight members and forwarded disciplinary cases to the Police Commission with the “singular recommendation of termination,” Chief Greg Suhr told commissioners on April 8.
In a public report the chief said investigators identified 14 members involved in various text‑messaging incidents. Of those, eight sent messages containing “extreme bias, racist and or homophobic content”…
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