Cleveland, OH

Cleveland, OH: A federal jury in Cleveland awarded $800,000 to a white police officer, Edward Lentz Jr., on finding that the city racially discriminated against him by assigning him to undesirable duty after he shot and wounded a black boy. Lentz had argued his treatment was harsher than that of black officers who shot black people, and that he was being victimized to appease protesting activists. In the verdict, the US 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. (Jan-28-07) [CANTON REPOSITORY: COP DISCRIMINATION]

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