White officer gets $800,000 in racial-bias suit
A federal court jury awarded $800,000 to a white police officer Friday, finding the city of Cleveland racially discriminated against him after he shot a black youth.
Patrolman Edward Lentz Jr. won the verdict five years after he wounded 12-year-old Lorenzo Locklear to end a confrontation that began outside the home of Mayor-elect Jane Campbell’s Shaker Square home.
During the ensuing city investigation, Lentz’s bosses yanked him from patrol duty and detailed him to the police gymnasium for 652 days. That miserable duty, Lentz claimed in U.S. District Court in Cleveland, lasted far longer than any given to a black officer involved in a shooting.
It was clearly punitive, Lentz contended, and made him a scapegoat to appease black community leaders protesting a string of incidents in which white officers shot black suspects.
The all-white, nine-member jury found the city deliberately and intentionally discriminated against Lentz, and did so as a re sult of an official “policy or custom.” Jurors also found the city retaliated against Lentz by fil ing disciplinary charges to the fed eral Equal Employ ment Opportunity Commission when he complained during his protracted gym detail.
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