In racist police text scandal, US town sees echoes of an intolerant past

Residents in Antioch, California, have been stunned by the investigation that has exposed nearly half the 99-officer squad

From an early age, Shagoofa Khan felt propelled to make her community a better place. Growing up in Antioch - a small city one hour north-east of San Francisco, where the industrial landscape of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta meets the rolling pastures of Contra Costa county - the now-22-year-old activist witnessed the effects of racial and socioeconomic inequality on a daily basis.

At 15, after seeing peers succumb to gang violence, she trained and worked as a teen conflict manager. Once she graduated from high school, Khan - who is the child of immigrants from Pakistan and Afghanistan - ran for local office as a school board trustee, and later became a student senator at Los Medanos Community College.