Black Pasadena police officers file civil rights lawsuit

Police departments being racist and abusive? Say it ain’t so!

In accordance with reporting via CBSNews, seven former and provide Pasadena Police Division officials have a filed complaints claiming that they’d been matter to blantant racism, professional retaliation, and physically abuse at the hands of fellow “blue lives”.

“I’ve been critically retaliated towards. I’ve been kicked out of explicit assignments,” discussed Carolyn Gordon, a former lieutenant at the department. “I’ve been assaulted as correctly, to the aim that I was prompt as I went down that I was a crybaby.”

Ex-officer Omar Elhosseiny seemed along Gordon at a press conference to claim that he was once professionally punished for reporting an on-duty officer for drinking alcohol at a party.

A piece written throughout the LAProgressive states that 3 other Black officials, Taisyn Crutchfield, Jarvis Shelby, and Milton White, moreover filed suits alleging various the equivalent violations as Carolyn Gordon. Crutchfield says that she was once targeted for termination all the way through her time throughout the police academy and identify racist slurs via her significant other, Officers Al Garcia.

Officer Jarvis Shelby says he was once subjected to a discriminatory paintings setting as fellow officials referred to him as “little parolee”. He moreover claims, with witness, that he was once assaulted via Commander Grisafe which was once followed via a 2d incident of physically war of words at a later date. Sergeant Milton White says he was once retaliated towards after exposing the egregious misconduct of Officer Ralph Palacios via being reassigned from a post he held for three years. He says he was once moreover mocked about being on welfare and referred to as a “jail informant”. All of the ones incidents were reported without follow-up.

We hope those officials have came upon their lesson. “Blue lives” don’t give a damn about your Black a**es or our Black a**es.