One of the officers involved in a shooting death by police of a black man in a San Diego suburb is the subject of sexual harassment lawsuits by a female officer, and was demoted last year amid the allegations. Gonsalves is the subject of two related lawsuits from a subordinate officer alleging sexual harassment that included unsolicited pictures of his genitals being sent. Michael Ray Rodriguez told the San Diego Union-Tribune that he saw a shirtless black man with his hands in the air before officers opened fire. The El Cajon mayor did not address Gonsalves’s lawsuits on Wednesday. Both the El Cajon police department and the El Cajon police officers’ association, the police union, did not respond to repeated requests for comment.

Source: The Guardian September 29, 2016 00:44 UTC