Black Pasadena police officers file civil rights lawsuit

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

In accordance with reporting by CBSNews, seven former and present Pasadena Police Division officers have a filed lawsuits claiming that they had been topic to blantant racism, skilled retaliation, and bodily abuse by the hands of fellow “blue lives”.

“I’ve been severely retaliated in opposition to. I’ve been kicked out of particular assignments,” mentioned Carolyn Gordon, a former lieutenant on the division. “I’ve been assaulted as properly, to the purpose that I used to be advised as I went down that I used to be a crybaby.”

Ex-officer Omar Elhosseiny appeared alongside Gordon at a press convention to assert that he was professionally punished for reporting an on-duty officer for ingesting alcohol at a celebration.

A chunk written within the LAProgressive states that three different Black officers, Taisyn Crutchfield, Jarvis Shelby, and Milton White, additionally filed fits alleging a number of the identical violations as Carolyn Gordon. Crutchfield says that she was focused for termination throughout her time within the police academy and name racist slurs by her companion, Officers Al Garcia.

Officer Jarvis Shelby says he was subjected to a discriminatory work atmosphere as fellow officers referred to him as “little parolee”. He additionally claims, with witness, that he was assaulted by Commander Grisafe which was adopted by a second incident of bodily confrontation at a later date. Sergeant Milton White says he was retaliated in opposition to after exposing the egregious misconduct of Officer Ralph Palacios by being reassigned from a submit he held for 3 years. He says he was additionally mocked about being on welfare and known as a “prison informant”. All of those incidents had been reported with out follow-up.

We hope these officers have discovered their lesson. “Blue lives” don’t give a rattling about your Black a**es or our Black a**es.