Excerpts from the newspaper article written by NNPA Washington, D.C. correspondent Hazel Trice Edney: " BLACK POLICE DISCRIMINATION COMPLAINT GIVES CAPITOL HILL 'BLACK EYE' : Use of KKK , ' N-word' reveals level of American racism, Black officers charge", Page A2, THE WASHINGTON AFRO-AMERICAN, April28,2001 -May 4, 2001 :
... In what is being called a " black eye for Capitol Hill " and a symptom of the level of racism in America, more than 200 members of the U.S. Capitol Black Police Association have filed a multi-million dollar class-action complaint against the police force and prominent members of the U.S. Congress, claiming rabid race and sex discrimination..
' This is a black eye for Capitol Hill,' said Charles Jerome Ware, the Columbia, Maryland lawyer representing the group of Black officers, told the NNPA. He said depending on the number of complaints --- which he said are still mounting --- and on how far the plaintiffs go back, the suit could amount to more than $ 100 million.
He (Ware) says the charges involved in the suit are symptomatic of racism in America.
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The 50-page complaint filed by Attorney Ware documents 15 race-and-gender related charges and outlines outrageous incidents on the force, 'N-word' by White officers toward Black officers and Black civilians and a Ku Klux Klan calling card placed in the locker of a Black officer.
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The force has 1,220 members. Of that total, 357 are Black (29 percent), according to the complaint. ****** "
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