Jury orders District to pay $900,000 to 4 police officers in retaliation case

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Source: Washington Post

A federal jury has ordered the District to pay four D.C. police officers $900,000, plus legal fees, because supervisors retaliated after they filed racial discrimination complaints in 2006.

A U.S. District Court panel ruled against the District on July 7, and the following day awarded Donald Smalls and William James $250,000 each and Frazier Caudle and Nikeith Goins $200,000 each. The jury sided with but made no award to a fifth plaintiff, Sholanda Miller.

D.C. police spokeswoman Gwendolyn Crump said they were aware of the decision and that "at this time, the department intends to appeal."

City labor leaders said the award marks a rare victory for officers in a civil rights claim against the Metropolitan Police Department. Although there have been a couple of such settlements paid since 2007, employee rights litigation against the District is mounting.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/19/AR2010071904938.html?wprss=rss_nation

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1. Wow! Police officers stand up against the system and win a lawsuit! Maybe this will give more

officers of peace more courage to stand for honest work
instead of terrorism.