NYPD Lawyer Sues for Discrimination, Retaliation After Not Receiving Promotion

NYPD lawyer Samuel Yee has taken on a high-ranking inspector who posted racist comments online, Trump adviser Roger Stone’s police pal and the powerful head of the sergeants union.

But the veteran police misconduct prosecutor is now fighting for his own career in the very department he has long defended.

Yee, who is Chinese-American, claims in a lawsuit filed Sunday in Manhattan Supreme Court that his boss, Deputy Commissioner Amy Litwin of the Department Advocate’s Office, passed him over for promotion multiple times in favor of less experienced white lawyers she either promoted or brought in at higher salaries from outside the NYPD.

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