San Jose Police Department racism scandal: Will history repeat itself?
https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/06/29/sjpd-racism-scandal-will-history-repeat-itself/
SAN JOSE — As the San Jose Police Department reels in scandal after the emergence of officers’ bigoted and anti-Muslim social-media comments, it has evoked the memory of a notorious incident when another San Jose officer was fired for making offensive remarks directed at Black Lives Matter supporters.
In that case, the officer got his job back in arbitration and he remains with the department, albeit in administrative duty. But in the new scandal — which has resulted in four active SJPD officers getting benched, and the FBI being summoned to help investigate — there is a groundswell from civil-rights advocates and public officials demanding that the outcome be different this time around.