[Not the Onion] LAPD commander fired over drunken incident wins $5.7 million in discrimination lawsuit (www.latimes.com)

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Nicole Mehringer lost her job after she was caught drunk in an unmarked police car with a male subordinate.

She won a lawsuit against the city alleging that her conduct — while against department policy — was no different from male command staff who routinely flouted rules.

The verdict was the latest in a series of legal losses for the city in lawsuits brought by female police command staff members.

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[-] MarxMadness@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Kind of? If a bunch of male cops routinely showed up 20 minutes late for work and were fine, but she got fired for the same conduct, that's discrimination. And that sounds like what happened here, just with a more serious type of misconduct.

To me, it seems like if the misconduct is serious enough you should be barred from filing this type of claim if you're fired. Without reading all the details of this case it's hard to say where this falls.