The women allege that they had each complained multiple times about unfair treatment on the basis of their race and gender to officials in the police department's equal employment opportunity department and/or their managers, to no avail.
"I was good enough to be the first African American female to win officer of the year ... but the moment I took a stand to say everything that I had seen, to bring it to their attention, I was discredited," one officer said.Michael M. Santiago / Getty Images fileDuring her five years with the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department, Tiara Brown said she got firsthand experience with its culture of intimidation.
The lieutenant asked Brown to write a formal statement and told her that the officers involved were going to be told who reported them. She then asked Brown if she still wanted to go ahead with a formal complaint, which Brown said she interpreted as a warning to keep silent. Three of the complainants, Sinobia Brinkley, Regenna Grier and Tabatha Knight, say they were forced out. Five others, Leslie Clark, Tamika Hampton, Chanel Dickerson, Karen Carr and LaShaun Lockerman, are still on the force. Kia Mitchell, who joined the force in 1989, retires this week. Brown resigned in December 2020.
Things came to a head one night last September while she was protecting the 7th District Police Station from protesters who were trying to breach the building after a police officer shot and killed Deon Kay, a Black 18-year-old. The protesters, many of whom Brown said were crying and visibly upset, eventually stopped trying to get in the building. As they chanted"Black Lives Matter," some of the protesters shined flashlights in officers' faces, Brown said.
Brown said in the interview there were times she and white officers responded to white supremacist rallies and that none of the white officers treated the people at those rallies the way they did the protesters outside the 7th District Police Station last September.
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