• Hempstead Police Official: “I’m being forced out”

    June 30, 2011 | Posted by

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    Willie R. Dixon, until recently the second-in-command of Hempstead Village’s police department, plans to retire on July 22 — the result, he says, of being stripped of his rank. Dixon, who spent about 30 years on the force, was not reappointed as assistant police chief after his contract expired on May 31 and was downgraded to lieutenant. Village officials said they took action because of a district attorney probe into Dixon’s actions on the force. Dixon said village officials were trying to retaliate against him for filing a discrimination lawsuit against them. “I am retiring because I am being forced out,” said Dixon, who was the police department’s most senior black officer.“He hopes to get the damages that he is due for being subjected to a hostile work environment because of his race,” said Eric Sanders, Dixon’s lawyer, who said his client would seek at least $1 million. Read more…

  • NYPD Cop Sues Department for $175 Million Dollars

    June 25, 2011 | Posted by

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    An NYPD officer claims in a lawsuit that he may be forced to retire due to a hand injury he sustained during a brutal beatdown by fellow officers outside his Queens home. Larry Jackson contends the cops – who responded to a 911 call from his wife about a gun-wielding man who had crashed their daughter’s birthday party – mistook him for the perpetrator because he’s black. Jackson was beaten with police batons, kicked and doused with pepper spray by unidentified cops from the 113th Precinct last summer. He suffered a fracture to his shooting hand and will likely have to file for a disability retirement, according to the suit filed in Brooklyn Federal Court. “My client is looking forward to holding the police department accountable for their lack of response to this persistent problem,” said lawyer Eric Sanders. Read More Read Original Lawsuit Read Amended Lawsuit

  • NYPD Sergeant Alleges Male on Male Sexual Harassment

    June 6, 2011 | Posted by

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    A NYPD sergeant has filed a complaint that claims he’s being sexually harassed by his male boss. Sgt. Nelson Fernandez, a nine-year NYPD veteran, said he’s “fed up” with the unwanted advances from Transit District No. 4 commander Deputy Inspector Thomas Connolly. Fernandez, who has filed a formal complaint with the NYPD’S Office of Equal Employment Opportunity, said the most bizarre come-on took place in Connolly’s Union Square office. “He’ll call me in for no particular reason” Fernandez told the Daily News. “Then he’ll lounge back with his feet up and he puts a pen in his mouth and starts sucking on it in a sexual manner.” “I commend Sgt. Fernandez for shining light on an often-hidden problem of male-on-male sexual harassment,” Sanders said. Read more Read more Read verified complaint    

  • NYPD Cop Alleges Boss Sexually Harassed Her

    June 2, 2011 | Posted by

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    A city cop claims a lieutenant texted her a photo of his penis and then put her on a foot post after she turned down his sexual advances. Officer Lisette Pedrosa, 39, filed complaints with the Internal Affairs Bureau and the Police Department’s Office of Equal Employment Opportunity about a year ago. Pedrosa says the NYPD has done nothing to squash the alleged sexual harassment, so she plans to file a lawsuit this month. “I feel stuck. I can’t transfer out. I feel like I am being cheated.” Read more Read more

  • Brooklyn Botanic Garden Racist to its Roots

    May 30, 2011 | Posted by

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    Life is no bed of roses for minority workers at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, according to a scathing federal discrimination complaint filed by its former head of security. Anthony Quarless, 47, says demeaning racial practices undercut his authority and made him and other minority workers feel as welcome as crab grass at the verdant Prospect Heights oasis. His lawyer, Eric Sanders, said, “I am quite confident that BBG will regret what they did to Anthony and other employees of color.” Read more

  • Officers who faced charges after fatal shooting of Gilberto Blanco in Brooklyn could be cleared soon

    April 29, 2011 | Posted by

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    Two cops hailed as heroes and then brought up on departmental charges after a fatal shooting in Brooklyn could soon be in the clear. NYPD lawyers have told an administrative judge that charges should be dropped against Officers India Archie and Dawn Ortiz. Commissioner Raymond Kelly has the final say on whether the officers get disciplined. Archie’s lawyer Eric Sanders said she was still upset over being charged. “She believes the department should not have charged her for failing to communicate with Ortiz. It wouldn’t have changed the outcome,” Sanders said. Read more

  • British Are Coming to Fight Cancer; an Officer Is Cleared

    April 28, 2011 | Posted by

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    At 10 a.m. Tuesday, the fatal shooting of a day laborer by Officer Dawn Ortiz of the New York City police more than two years ago endured some of its final public moments in a quiet courtroom at Police Headquarters. Now, the departmental lawyer said the circumstances had been reviewed. And she said she was moving to dismiss the internal charges against Officer Ortiz, recommending instead that she receive retraining on the nature of such encounters. Eric Sanders, a lawyer for Officer Archie, said that in the internal trial against her, a conference had been scheduled for Friday. “They are talking about dismissing, but I won’t know until Friday what they really want to do because it seems that they are changing their position,” Mr. Sanders said. “The policy was on the officers’ side the entire time, as is the law, and this is a waste of time and money.”…

  • NYPD Officer Sues Counterterrorism Chief Alleging Sexual Harassment

    April 2, 2011 | Posted by

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    A married NYPD Counterterrorism Bureau chief carried on multiple affairs with female subordinates at a Queens precinct while sexually terrorizing a female cop who rejected his sleazy overtures, The Post has learned. Police Officer Veronica Schultz says her former boss, Deputy Chief Michael Blake, now the executive officer of the counterterrorism division, engaged in simultaneous affairs with “numerous” women subordinates four years ago, when he was a captain and commanding officer of the 103 Precinct, where she still works. “His behavior was outrageous in the precinct,” Schultz told The Post. Eric Sanders, Schultz’ attorney, insisted the case would focus on Blake’s bawdy behavior. “We have identified at least four police officers who were under his command with whom he had close personal relationships,” he said. Read More Read federal lawsuit

  • Retired NYPD Narcotics Detective called a ‘Nappy-Headed Ho’ Settles Lawsuit Against the City for $130K

    February 23, 2011 | Posted by

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    A former NYPD narcotics detective called a “nappy-headed ho” by her sergeant will receive $130,000 from the city to settle her federal suit. The sergeant, Michael Cantatore, will also have to cough up $1,500 of his own money to pay retired Detective Aretha Williams. Cantatore retired from the force before any disciplinary action was taken against him; Williams retired in 2009. “She feels Cantatore was never punished for his behavior,” said Williams’ lawyer, Eric Sanders. Read more  

  • School ‘cop’ sex shocker Safety agents: It was hop-in-sack or get sacked

    February 21, 2011 | Posted by

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    Hormones are raging among the NYPD’S school safety agents. The Police Department’s School Safety Division is a raunchy, sexually charged environment where some female agents regularly engage in down-and-dirty noontime affairs with bosses inside department vehicles — and then boast about their sleazy shenanigans to co-workers, according to a federal discrimination complaint. The bawdy behavior between a number of the female school-safety agents and their horndog male bosses at the unit’s Long Island City, Queens, headquarters — including the midday sex romps on city time — has allegedly led to the women being provided an array of special benefits and privileges. The lawyer who represents the pair, Eric Sanders of Manhattan, said the message was clear. “The women who were sleeping with the supervisors were being treated better than the other agents,” Sanders said. Read More

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