San Jose: Racist text scandal spurs outcry, calls for jail overhaul from community leaders
Source: San Jose Mercury News
As outrage grew Friday over racist text messages sent by jail officers in Santa Clara County's troubled jails, local leaders ranging from civil rights activists to the South Bay's top labor organizer, stood shoulder to shoulder on the jailhouse steps demanding a complete overhaul of the local penal system.
"This building behind us is a crime scene," said Raj Jayadev, director of social justice group Silicon Valley De-Bug, referring to the Main Jail on Hedding Street.
The existence of the racist text messages was revealed Thursday by this newspaper and is the latest scandal to befall the Bay Area's largest correctional system. In September, three jail officers were charged with murder in the August beating death of mentally ill inmate Michael Tyree, putting the spotlight on the oft-ignored jail, from its lax complaint system to its alleged overuse of solitary confinement.
... The jail officers repeatedly exchanged racist text messages in the past year -- mixing vile slurs with casual brutality, and even sharing images of a Nazi swastika and a lynching, this newspaper revealed. The texts, which surfaced over the course of multiple investigations, involve various groups of officers and some appear to have been sent while they were on duty.
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zentrum
(9,865 posts)"Cops have already killed 550 people in 2015." Response: "If they're black, it doesn't count."
(Quoted from the Mercury News.)
That's like a poster for what BLM is trying to make white people in the country wake up to.
Wow.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)zentrum
(9,865 posts)..too much of the whole country. When a black child goes missing, the news doesn't even report it. Same thing.
heaven05
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as long as the powers that be can keep us calling each other niggas, whores, biatches(rap music was inspired and produced by whom, ultimately, huge amounts of drugs are brought into this country by whom, ultimately)and we keep allowing the fighting over little pieces of worthless turf in our own neighborhoods to kill our young we shall continue to face misery and fear. As long as we keep Feeding each other drugs that kill the mind and spirit of users, that is funneled into our neighborhoods by the monsters bringing tons of it into the country to accommodate the POC and the fear and misery in our 'redlined' neighborhoods al, the while making huge profit off of death and misery in our neighborhoods, we will suffer. If we keep running after "bling" and by and large accepting a stereotypical role in a society that creates and causes an oppressive state of mind in the recipients of that hate and racism, they, the racists and hateful, will continue to point to POC as the problem, instead of the real problem, the white racist element bent on destroying POC as they tried to do with the native-American. Manifest Destiny, you know?. And they won't stop until ALL of us stop accepting that lie.