Former Vallejo police chief received threats before resigning, lawsuit alleges
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Former Vallejo police chief received threats before resigning, lawsuit alleges
VALLEJO – Former Vallejo police Chief Shawny Williams received verbal and written threats that pushed him to resign from his post in November 2022, according to allegations made in a new civil rights lawsuit against the Vallejo Police Department. Williams, the city’s first and only Black police chief, was hired in 2019 in an effort to reform the troubled department. He frequently faced opposition from the Vallejo Police Officers Association, who…
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