The officer, who is choosing to remain anonymous, recently graduated from the police academy and was assigned to SFPD’s Central Station located in North Beach.
“That’s when I experienced blatant racism and bigotry toward me by some officers and Sergeants,” he wrote. “They also expressed their contempt towards other minorities. I told them many times that their racist comments and actions towards me needed to stop. When their behavior escalated, that’s when I decided to make a formal complaint to HR.”
On Nov. 9, 2017, he made a complaint, alleging he was not only harassed for being Middle Eastern and Muslim, but witnessed racism and homophobia by officers.
Twice he found hateful graffiti on his locker. In an August, 2017 incident, someone scrawled “tick-tick.” On Nov. 6, 2017, the officer found and photographed graffiti on his locker that included an ISIS flag and the words “go back.”He reported several instances of anti-Muslim harassment by fellow officers, such as a colleague applauding the Trump Administration’s Muslim ban, warning against Muslims infiltrating law enforcement, telling the officer he can’t detonate himself in exchange for 72 virgins since he is a police officer, and taking him to a strip club in a deliberate attempt to embarrass him.
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