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The news comes in the wake of reports of racially charged
policing that targeted black residents of the St Louis suburb of
Ferguson, Missouri and a members of an Oklahoma fraternity
singing a racist song that have raised attention on racial
tensions in the United States.
The racially charged and homophobic texts came to light in a
filing in federal court on Friday by prosecutors seeking to keep
one of the officers in custody as he appeals his conviction and
40-month sentence on federal corruption charges, the newspaper
said.
San Francisco Police officials were not immediately available
for comment.
San Francisco police Chief Greg Suhr said on Saturday that he
could not confirm the officers' identities under state law, but
will seek to fire those responsible for the messages, it said.
"It makes me sick to my stomach to even have these guys around,"
the paper quoted him as saying.
(Writing by Jon Herskovitz; Additiononal reporting by Emmett
Berg in San Francisco; Editing by Eric Walsh)
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