The victimized officer was suspended earlier this year for failing to report the attacks, records also show.
SAN ANTONIO — A San Antonio police officer found to have assaulted a colleague “on multiple occasions” last year was suspended indefinitely and without pay after an internal investigation, disciplinary records show.
According to those records, department personnel received information in December that Officer Cassidy Costa had been involved in “family violence incident(s)” with an officer she was dating at the time. Authorities discovered texts the victim sent to a third officer indicating he had been attacked.
One of those texts read, “You know how stupid it is that I had to go to work and lie about how I got a black eye?” Another reportedly stated, “Cuz she busted my eye open.”
A third message provided in the disciplinary records indicated additional physical violence. It read: “She sometimes shoves her hands in my mouth and pulls down in my lip from between my lip and gums to so I can stop talking.”
SAPD officials said Costa’s actions were “detrimental to effective law enforcement and the needs of the San Antonio Police Department.” Her suspension started May 1.
The department also initiated steps to fire her. According to state records, however, she still has an active license and remains with SAPD.
The officer Costa was found to have assaulted didn’t report the violence to superiors, records show, a decision for which he was also suspended indefinitely on April 10. According to records, he lied to investigators about the incidents, framing them as “nothing physical” and adding “it was just a lot of arguing.”
Later, however, investigators found the officer had texted a colleague with contradicting information, writing: “Well I can’t tell SVU the truth.”
Records say that when his colleague recommended he be honest, the now-suspended officer replied, “No, I can’t do that” and “I won’t be responsible for her losing her career,” an apparent reference to Costa attacking him.