In April, it was revealed that more than 45 officers, representing nearly half of Antioch’s police department, were implicated in racist behavior.
Six current and former officers from the Antioch and Pittsburg departments were indicted for wire fraud in a college scam case. Officers claimed they had earned degrees to get salary bumps, but had hired others to take classes and exams for them, said US attorney Ismail Ramsey.
Timothy Manly-Williams, a former Antioch officer – who was charged with obstruction and destroying, altering and falsifying records. While assigned to monitor a wiretap as part of a murder investigation, he used his personal phone to call the target of the wiretap and prevented it from being recorded.
He was also accused of confiscating and destroying a civilian’s phone after the victim had recorded the aftermath of an arrest.
Widespread civil rights violations by three Antioch officers – Amiri, Wenger and Eric Rombough – included improperly using weapons and a K-9 dog, boasting about their illegal uses of forces, sharing graphic photos of their victims’ injuries and collecting ammunition as mementos of their attacks.
Widespread civil rights violations by three Antioch officers – Amiri, Wenger and Eric Rombough – included improperly using weapons and a K-9 dog, boasting about their illegal uses of forces, sharing graphic photos of their victims’ injuries and collecting ammunition as mementos of their attacks.
Prosecutors have been forced to drop or dismiss dozens of cases that involved the officers who were exposed, and the local county has assigned attorneys to review thousands more files, according to the publication.
“Not only do we have officers who have fundamentally racist ideas and disrespect for the community, but they’re dishonest, too, and that goes to the very integrity of the criminal justice system,” said John Burris, a civil rights attorney who has brought a class-action case against Antioch police.
“Not only do we have officers who have fundamentally racist ideas and disrespect for the community, but they’re dishonest, too, and that goes to the very integrity of the criminal justice system,” said John Burris, a civil rights attorney who has brought a class-action case against Antioch police.
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