White officer wins bias lawsuit

[Navy Seal Patriot]

Jury finds Cleveland retaliated after black child shot; city to appeal $800,000 award

CLEVELAND - A federal jury has awarded $800,000 to a white police officer, finding that the city racially discriminated against him by assigning him to undesirable duty after he shot and wounded a black child.

Patrolman Edward Lentz Jr. had argued his treatment was harsher than that of black officers who shot black people, and that he was made a scapegoat to appease activists who protested a number of police shootings involving black suspects.

In the verdict reached Friday, the U.S. District Court jurors, who were all white, found the discrimination was deliberate, intentional and part of an official ``policy or custom.'' They also agreed with Lentz's claim that the city retaliated when Lentz complained about his treatment by filing disciplinary charges with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

The city plans to appeal.

Beacon Journal | 01/28/2007 | White officer wins bias lawsuit

Luckily the racists didn't win this one and yet the city plans to appeal. And yet another story about a mayor who wants to ban the N-word and yet states nothing about the H-word, K-word, etc., very racist and biased and bigoted.

The First Amendment prevents the city from outright banning the “N-word,” but it can pass an ordinance against its use in certain contexts, Corley said. Under Brazoria’s proposed ordinance, such uses would be a class C misdemeanor punishable by up to a $500 fine.

In a letter to Corley and City Council members, City Attorney Charlie Stevenson wrote the ordinance could be established under state laws authorizing the city “to adopt ordinances for the good government, peace order and welfare of the municipality.”

My question is when a black uses the N-word and this ordinance is passed is he fined if caught or is he/she exempt? Racist times indeed.

The Facts