Booker, 36, is an activist and is a a current member of the Monroe County Human Rights Commission. In an interview with NPR, he claimed that the men had beaten him, spat at him, pinned him to a tree, shouted racial slurs at him and called for someone to "get a noose."
"This is not a happy moment. It's a necessary moment," Booker said in a Zoom news conference on Friday afternoon.
"We have a legal system and what I want now is our neighbors to decide the fate of these individuals," he added.
Chief Manjit Sappal, of the Martinez Police Department, said in a statement, “The community spent a considerable amount of time putting the mural together only to have it painted over in a hateful and senseless manner.“
Their discussion contained racist slurs, criticism of black officers, the Black Lives Matter movement, and talk of a civil war. The new, appointed chief declared that the firings were “extremely necessary.”
Wilmington Police Department, in North Carolina, fired three veteran police officers who made racist comments and discussed “slaughtering” and wiping Black people off the map in conversations recorded on an in-car camera.