California’s attorney general says he will investigate the Torrance Police Department, after the Los Angeles Times obtained a trove of racist and homophobic text messages exchanged by more than a dozen current and former police officers and recruits. 

Sacramento, December 10 (RHC)-- California’s attorney general says he will investigate the Torrance Police Department, after the Los Angeles Times obtained a trove of racist and homophobic text messages exchanged by more than a dozen current and former police officers and recruits. 

One message contained a caption reading “hanging with the homies,” under a picture showing several Black men who had been lynched.  Another message joked about breaking the tail lights on the car of a Black motorist so police could pull him over and shoot him. 

The Los Angeles Times reports the officers exchanged racist messages for years, a revelation that could affect hundreds of criminal cases in which the officers either testified or made arrests.