![]() Mayor Muriel Bowser said that her Office is taking “claims very seriously,” and investigating any issues her team believes “need to be investigated and take appropriate actions.” “We are tired women and no one should have to endure what we did.”ĭ.C. “We were labeled as troublemakers, angry Black women, and I’m here to say that we are not angry Black women,” Tabatha Knight, who retired from MPD earlier in the year, said last week in a press conference, according to. It’s just covered up,” Sergeant Tamika Hampton told NBC 4. “Even though they say retaliation is not tolerated, it really is. The 10 former and current MPD officers were done fearing for their positions and lives.Īccording to the National Association of Black Law Enforcement Officers (NABLEO), the claim states that the women had been, “treated with contempt and subjected to a male-dominated ‘culture of race and sex discrimination’ and ‘intense pervasive retaliation’ when they complained about the treatment.” The lawsuit alleges an elite, select strata within MPD of White and male officers that control and abuse their Black and women officers, and punish or “crush” Black women that speak up under “petty vengeances” that escalate up to ignored complaints, refusals of transfer requests, up to retaliations that include termination. The plaintiffs allege decades of discrimination based on sex and race. ![]() MPD is lambasted as “demeaning, degrading and disrespectful,” “profoundly dysfunctional and corrupt,” all contributing “a profoundly toxic work environment for Black woman officers,” in the filing. The 10 officers possess over 200 years of collective experience and positions within the MPD hierarchy come from every strata, starting at street-level patrol officers all the way up to the aforementioned assistant police chief. Plaintiffs include MPD’s 2019 Officer of the Year Tiara Brown and Chanel Dickerson, assistant chief of the Youth and Family Engagement Bureau, a new bureau MPD announced in May 2021. Let’s be clear, these women are risking a lot in speaking out. police officers filed a $100 million class-action lawsuit against the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) for racial and sexual discrimination. (Courtesy Photo)īlack women are making history and potentially changing the course of law reform, as 10 former and current Black women D.C. ![]() Police officers, including Assistant Chief Chanel Dickerson (top) and Sergeant Tamika Hampton (bottom), are alleging sexual and racial discrimination in the Metropolitan Police Department. ![]() Ten Black women, who are former and current D.C. ![]()
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