In a civil complaint filed in Santa Clara County Superior Court, the officers claim they were “forced to physically pass and confront the mural” on Hamilton Avenue each time they entered the department. At issue were elements they consider to be offensive and discriminatory, including a portrait of Black Liberation Army member and FBI fugitive, Joanne Chesimard, also known as Assata Shakur, who was convicted of killing a police officer in 1973. She eventually escaped from prison and fled to Cuba.
A recent example of such seething: