Supended racist Boston cop files suit against the PD, Commish, and Mayor

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Justin Barrett, the Boston police officer suspended from the force for his e-mail likening Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., to a “banana-eating jungle monkey,’’ has filed a lawsuit against the Police Department, police commissioner, and mayor, saying the city violated his civil and due process rights.

The 18-page lawsuit accuses the three parties of “conspiring to intentionally inflict emotional distress and conspiring to intentionally interfere with the property rights, due process rights, and civil rights of the plaintiff.’’

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According to the lawsuit, the mayor and commissioner’s actions caused Barrett pain and suffering, mental anguish, emotional distress, posttraumatic stress, sleeplessness, indignities and embarrassment, degradation, injury to reputation, and restrictions on personal freedom.

Barrett, on the police force for two years, requested that they be enjoined from decreasing, terminating, or withholding any wages. He also asked for money damages to compensate for the emotional and physical pain he suffered, attorney’s fees, and punitive damages.

Read the full article here.

 

[bodecea]

If he used department e-mail services...good luck with that lawsuit.

 

[Tommy Lucchese]

Justin Barrett, the Boston police officer suspended from the force for his e-mail likening Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., to a “banana-eating jungle monkey,’’ has filed a lawsuit against the Police Department, police commissioner, and mayor, saying the city violated his civil and due process rights.

The 18-page lawsuit accuses the three parties of “conspiring to intentionally inflict emotional distress and conspiring to intentionally interfere with the property rights, due process rights, and civil rights of the plaintiff.’’

*snip*

According to the lawsuit, the mayor and commissioner’s actions caused Barrett pain and suffering, mental anguish, emotional distress, posttraumatic stress, sleeplessness, indignities and embarrassment, degradation, injury to reputation, and restrictions on personal freedom.

Barrett, on the police force for two years, requested that they be enjoined from decreasing, terminating, or withholding any wages. He also asked for money damages to compensate for the emotional and physical pain he suffered, attorney’s fees, and punitive damages.

Read the full article here.

Administrative discipline by police departments does not have constitutional protections like a criminal proceeding.

Ask an NYPD cop about the Trial Room.

 

[manifold]

This guy's an idiot. Everyone knows you don't put racial epithets in writing! Unless of course it's on an anonymous messageboard.

 

[Anguille]

Besides his racial slurs Barrett said he would have used pepper spray on Gates. The threat of violence alone is enough to seal the lid on this guys coffin.

 

[xsited1]

Do jungle monkeys really eat bananas or is that a myth?

 

[Ravi]

Besides his racial slurs Barrett said he would have used pepper spray on Gates. The threat of violence alone is enough to seal the lid on this guys coffin.

One would hope. Also, even though it is perfectly legal to be racist it doesn't fit in quite well with the police's vow to protect and serve.

 

[editec]

If the guy sent it from the police station or otherwise indentified himself as a policeman, I think his goose is cooked.

If he threatened the guy, likewise, h's about to become a civilian, too.

 

[goldcatt]

I'd say it's hard to believe, but what would one expect from a man who claims "banana eating jungle monkey" isn't racist? Stick a fork in him!

 

[anna]

Boston!!! Yaaaaa!!! I would like to look at the emails from the hate whiiteys!!! Lol

 

[MarcATL]

If he used department e-mail services...good luck with that lawsuit.

I was just coming to post that.

Like they said on Seinfeld..."good luck with all thaat!"