Antioch police officers named in racist texting scandal conspired to ‘injure, oppress, threaten and intimidate’ residents, lawsuit claims

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Antioch police officers named in racist texting scandal conspired to ‘injure, oppress, threaten and intimidate’ residents, lawsuit claims

ANTIOCH — Two Antioch residents filed a federal civil rights lawsuit this week claiming the city’s police officers brutalized them with less-lethal launchers and police dogs as part of a systematic bid to terrorize the city’s Black residents for sport and pleasure. The lawsuit by Dajon Smith and Jessie Wilson adds to a mounting pile of allegations against the embattled Antioch Police Department, which saw nine officers indicted last year on a li…