SAN JOSE — A San Jose police officer who won his job back after an arbitrator ruled the police department violated his constitutional rights is now calling out his employer, describing a troubled internal affairs process plagued by paperwork questionably altered with white-out and an unwarranted determination to fire him.

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Michael Richmond, who has been with the San Jose Police Department since 2019 after seven years with the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office, spoke publicly for the first time with the Bay Area News Group partly with the aim of shielding his rank-and-file colleagues from similar experiences.

“There’s a lesson learned here for everybody, the upper echelon of the San Jose Police Department and the city, to know that this is not okay and it should not hap

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