*Shocking messages about beating suspects and making up evidence were found when Antioch, [California], [thugs] were investigated.* Nearly half the thugs in the department either sent them or read them without objecting.

The article linked to just above displays symbolic bigotry by capitalizing "black" but not "white". (To avoid endorsing bigotry, capitalize both words or neither one.) I denounce bigotry, and normally I will not link to articles that promote it. But I make exceptions for some articles that I consider particularly important. That article is one of the exceptions.

The point of the article is that we have a responsibility to object to bigotry when we see it. Symbolic bigotry is nowhere near as bad as beating people up, but we should still call it out, as I am doing here.