Calif. city pays $750,000 after police allegedly paint swastika in car - The Washington Post

Swaine's lawsuit followed the investigation by the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office that first charged Weldin and Tomsic with the vandalism to Swaine's car — and uncovered evidence of what the office described as alarmingly racist beliefs held by many officers within the Torrance Police Department. 

Investigators looking into Swaine's vandalism case retrieved gigabytes of racist text message exchanges, including jokes about Black men being lynched and "gassing" Jewish people, between at least a dozen Torrance police officers that dated back to 2018, the Los Angeles Times reported. Tomsic and Weldin, who were fired in March 2020 when the investigation began, were among the officers who'd sent offensive messages, according to the Times. 

Steering, in an interview, criticized the Torrance Police Department for harboring officers with racist beliefs…

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