San Francisco police chief moves to dismiss officers over racist texts

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San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr said on Friday that he had moved to dismiss seven police officers in the department, all of whom had sent or received racist text messages in 2011 and 2012, The New York Times reports.

The texts "are of such despicable thinking that those responsible clearly fall below the minimum standards required to be a police officer," Suhr said.

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Sarah Eberspacher

Sarah Eberspacher is an associate editor at TheWeek.com. She has previously worked as a sports reporter at The Livingston County Daily Press & Argus and The Arizona Republic. She graduated from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.