Lamar Thorpe

Lamar Thorpe (born April 6, 1981) is an American politician and the current mayor of Antioch, California. He is the second African American to be elected as mayor of the city, after Wade Harper, who served from 2012 to 2016.
Early life
Thorpe was born on April 6, 1981, at the Sybil Brand Institute, a woman's jail in Monterey Park, California. His mother was a heroin addict who had been arrested in a carjacking to fund her habit.
Political career
In November 2016, he was elected to a four-year term on the five-member Antioch City Council and was seminal in the formation of a police reform ad hoc committee. In November 2020, running on a platform of police reform, he won the election with 45 percent. He had won the endorsement of the major Bay Area newspapers and the California Democratic Party; and was opposed by the police union.
According to the arrest report released by the Department of California Highway Patrol, Thorpe denied having consumed any alcoholic beverages. Thorpe was transported to the CHP Contra Costa Area Office where two chemical breath tests indicated a BAC of .121% and .124%.
Thorpe entered a plea of no contest. He was sentenced to two days in an alternative custody program, three years of probation, and approximately $1,749 in fines.

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