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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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[-] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 37 points 1 month ago

So the solution here is to pay officers who flout the rules millions of dollars. Not to hold them accountable for their actions. I'm sure this is a system that works great for everyone.

[-] Monk3brain3@hexbear.net 34 points 1 month ago

I mean this is just liberalism turbo charged by identity politics. It's kind of nonsensical to give one person, and a fucking ruling class enforcer, this much money while people are homeless and without healthcare. Honestly it's so ridiculous but I guess it can happen because the jury is also full of liberals that have just really performative politics? The US is so fucking weird

[-] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago

Yeah like if you must give compensation, why not... missed wages and reinstatement to her position instead of "you just won the lottery"

[-] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 26 points 1 month ago

god forbid a woman have a hobby

[-] CrawlMarks@hexbear.net 24 points 1 month ago

She does have a point tbh.

[-] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 24 points 1 month ago

Yeah the problem is that the pigs routinely do shit they're not supposed to, AND that they're mysogynists. Ideally, everyone would get fired ~~out of a cannon~~, but the argument is sound.

And the police giving away this much money to a "bad cop" is great material to show people who still think cops can be redeemed.

[-] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago

I feel like there's gotta be a better argument against "Sure I was drunk on the job where my role is supposedly protecting the public, but so is everyone else" than "you're totally right, here's 5 million dollars"

[-] CrawlMarks@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago

The situation is that as everyone else does it they should all be fired same as she wwas.she sould also be some kind of compensated for their discrimination as well.

[-] astutemural@midwest.social 6 points 1 month ago

Bullshit. If everyone is breaking the rules, and only one peraon was fired for it, you don't hand that one person enough money to build a street of houses. You fire everyone breaking the rules.

[-] CrawlMarks@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago

It does appear they specifically discriminated against her and that is bad. The nature of the case does not negate that fact

[-] 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.

[-] CrawlMarks@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago

I mean, employers should be punished for discrimination. That is kinda important

[-] anotherspinelessdem@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 month ago
[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

When the NYPD

Edit: spoiling this for some serious SA details:

spoilersodomized a black man with a baton and perforated his colon requiring surgery and a lifetime of health complications
the general mood among people that knew anything were like “oh look, finally some cops who are worse than the LAPD”

Read up about the LA county sheriffs and why they bend the corners of their badges (one per life taken) goddamned Nazi paramilitaries

[-] RNAi@hexbear.net 19 points 1 month ago

#Girlboss #DeathToAmerikkka

[-] DogThatWentGorp@hexbear.net 17 points 1 month ago
[-] hello_hello@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago

One way to defund the police I guess. Well who am I kidding they're taking this money out of the food programs lmao.

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