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Jury: Richmond police chief did not racially discriminate
A Contra Costa County jury on Tuesday roundly rejected accusations of racial discrimination filed by seven black police officers against Richmond Police Chief Chris Magnus, throwing out all claims of harrassment and bias and awarding no damages..
As the jury's verdict in the three-month trial was read in a Martinez courtroom, one of the plaintiffs, Sgt. James Jenkins, appeared to collapse in his seat in the gallery. A juror, bailiffs and co-defendants rushed to his help, and he eventually walked out of the courtroom to be helped by emergency workers.
The jury also cleared now-retired Deputy Chief Lori Ritter of wrongdoing in the case. Magnus and Ritter are both white.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/04/10/MN961O1CHP.DTL#ixzz1rfry2f5i
A Contra Costa County jury on Tuesday roundly rejected accusations of racial discrimination filed by seven black police officers against Richmond Police Chief Chris Magnus, throwing out all claims of harrassment and bias and awarding no damages..
As the jury's verdict in the three-month trial was read in a Martinez courtroom, one of the plaintiffs, Sgt. James Jenkins, appeared to collapse in his seat in the gallery. A juror, bailiffs and co-defendants rushed to his help, and he eventually walked out of the courtroom to be helped by emergency workers.
The jury also cleared now-retired Deputy Chief Lori Ritter of wrongdoing in the case. Magnus and Ritter are both white.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/04/10/MN961O1CHP.DTL#ixzz1rfry2f5i