Black officer sues Fort Worth PD, Chief Halstead for racial discrimination and retaliation

Black officer sues Fort Worth PD, Chief Halstead for racial discrimination and retaliation Robert Wilonsky

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At center, outgoing Fort Worth Police Chief Jeffrey Halstead

In a recent report that investigated racial discrimination treatment and harassment in the Fort Worth Police Department, it’s referred to as “the snowman incident.” As of yesterday, it’s also a federal lawsuit.

On Wednesday Delbert Johnson — a 24-year veteran of the Fort Worth PD, most recently in the traffic division — sued the department and outgoing chief Jeffrey Halstead and others alleging “race discrimination, harassment, hostile work environment and retaliation.” Says the suit, which you can read in full below, Johnson had a long and prosperous career in the department until 2010 — when he and a fellow black officer discovered on the printer a photo of a fellow officer, Sgt. Ann Gates, “holding a noose around a snowman’s neck.” On that day, says the suit, everything changed.

The suit says another officer, Sgt. Mike Cagle, took the photo, and that someone complained about it to Internal Affairs — someone other than Johnson. The suit says Gates and Cagle were admonished for the photo, which infuriated their supervisor, Sgt. David Stamp, who at the time was head of the traffic division. Stamp, the suit alleges, gathered other offers in traffic and told them Johnson “was now their enemy and could not be trusted.”

Thus began a series of incidents that the suit says culminated with Stamp sending an anonymous letter to the chief in which he accused Johnson of stealing federal grant money. … [visit site to read more]

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