Fontana police chief defends detectives accused of ‘psychological torture’ of innocent murder suspect

Five months after news broke that Fontana police detectives “psychologically tortured’ a man into falsely confessing to murder, Chief Michael Dorsey this week issued a statement on social media saying the department was not perfect in handling the interrogation but had ample reason to suspect foul play.

In a 17-hour interrogation in 2018, detectives legally used deception to get Thomas Perez Jr. to confess to killing his missing father, who was later found alive, preparing to board a plane...