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NYC Settles Illegal Strip Search Case For $90K Where Male Detective...
NYC Settles Illegal Strip Search Case For $90K Where Male Detective Photographed Woman’s Below Waist Tattoo. After Bova filed a complaint, NYPD Internal Affairs Bureau investigators found 17 women who also claimed they had been strip-searched by...
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A Black Hotel Cook Alleges Further Retaliation When Another Employee Donned...
New York Civil Rights Attorney Eric Sanders, Esq., of The Sanders Firm, P.C., alleges in a $35 million federal lawsuit that The Roger Smith Hotel in Midtown Manhattan fostered a hostile work environment by ignoring and failing to properly...
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Black Employee Subjected to Makeshift Dummy ‘Hanging’ From A Beam
Islip officials are investigating a Halloween prank in which a town employee hung a masked dummy from a roof beam at a Central Islip parks maintenance shop. The effigy upset at least one African-American town employee, who reported it to police but...
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A Black Hotel Cook Sues Employer Midtown Hotel for $25 Million...
Julius Jones says working at The Roger Smith Hotel in Midtown Manhattan is no picnic. Jones, who is African American, said that he started working at the hotel in November 2008 and endured violent behavior and offensive language from some white...
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Federal Judge Denies City’s Request to Delay Creating A New FDNY...
A federal judge denied the city's request for an extension to create a new Fire Department entrance exam that doesn't discriminate against minority-group candidates. Read...
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NYPD Auto Crime Unit Promotions Rare for Hispanics
Joseph Rivera alleges that Hispanic employees assigned to the Auto Crime Division of the Police Department City of New York aka NYPD were not afforded opportunities to be promoted past Detective Third Grade, while other similarly situated Caucasian...
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