Consumer Law
Black Female Officers Accuse DC Police of Discrimination
Current and former Black female D.C. police officers filed a class-action lawsuit against the Washington, D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) on Wednesday, claiming they were subjected to discrimination based on their sex and race.
The group of 10 women alleged that they experienced an “enterprise-wide culture of race and sex discrimination,” the lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, reads.
“They come together as a class here to describe how the MPD has, for decades, treated Black women police officers with contempt, to the point of systematic psychological abuse,” the suit continues.
