Black Female Officers Charge Racism in Third Lawsuit Against DC Police
Felicia Carson and Lisa Burton have accused the head of Washington, DC's Metropolitan Police Department Internal Affairs Division of retaliating after they complained about preferential treatment given to white officers. They claimed supervisors created a “hostile” work environment, according to their attorney.
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Two Black female police officers the District of Columbia have filed a lawsuit alleging they were fired after complaining about preferential treatment in favor of white officers, reports CNN. It is the third such lawsuit filed in the past four months citing racism and a “toxic” culture in the D.C. police department. The case brought by Felicia Carson and Lisa Burton against the head of the Internal Affairs Division of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) “is not just about a hostile work environment for police officers,” charged attorney Pamela Keith. “[It’s] about a culture that protects and prioritizes White male officers.” Dennis Jay Kenney, a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, said the police department “needs to be held accountable for why they failed to act and why their mechanisms failed to take corrective action in all of the cases that have been described,” he said. “My only question is whether or not the [discrimination is] race or gender-based.” MPD said it was taking the allegations “seriously, and we will be reviewing them thoroughly.”
