Bill Scott, the highest-ranking African American officer with the Los Angeles Police Department, will assume the top post at the San Francisco Police Department in January, which is months after the SF PD nixed its last police chief amid protests about police killings of Blacks.
According to reports, an anti-Trump march in Portland quickly escalated into a riot on Thursday. It resulted in 29 arrests.
Police Chief Greg Suhr resigned at the request of Mayor Ed Lee amid a mounting scandal over racism in the department
Another group of officers from the San Francisco Police Department are under fire for exchanging messages containing the n-word and other racist language in regards to a recent criminal investigation.
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