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via Politics Daily by Ria Misra on 8/3/09
Just a day after President Barack Obama shared a pint with Professor Skip Gates and police Sgt. James Crowley in the White House's flourishing rose garden Thursday, another discussion on race and the police was going on in a much less cordial venue -- a Washington courtroom. Nearly eight years ago, more than 200 black officers of the U.S. Capitol Police in Washington, D.C., sued the department, claiming discrimination. A lower court had thrown out the case after deciding that no efforts at mediation had been made, but on Friday, the Associated Press reported that the federal appeals court overturned that ruling and sent the case back to trial.Among the charges being brought are that black officers were routinely denied promotions. It's also alleged that one officer found a noose left on his locker and that some senior white officers referred to black officers as "gangsters." "The Capitol Police management identified the leading black officers in the ranks and nastily attacked them," the attorney for the suing officers, Joseph Gebhardt, told the AP. Of the officers who brought the suit back in 2001, only a little over half are still with the Capitol Police today.
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