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DEA agents in reverse-bias suit awarded $7M, but will get less
Philadelphia Daily News ^ | Thu, Dec. 20, 2007 | MICHAEL HINKELMAN

Posted on 12/22/2007 7:13:47 PM PST by flowerplough

Two Drug Enforcement Administration agents who sued the U.S. Attorney General and the Justice Department for reverse discrimination were awarded $7 million in damages by a federal jury last Friday. But the agents will receive far less.

Compensatory damages for employment-discrimination claims against the feds are capped by law at $300,000 per plaintiff.

The jury found that the DEA through its supervisors had "intentionally discriminated" against George W. Marthers III and Jude T. McKenna by creating a hostile work environment because of their race.

Marthers and McKenna are white; their former supervisors, Dempsey Jones and Johnny Fisher, are black.

The jury also found that the supervisors retaliated against the agents after they filed an internal complaint with DEA in March 2002 and later with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

The agents alleged that they had been constantly harassed, verbally and physically, and said that Fisher even had a black agent spy on them.

(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: dea; discrimination; eeoc; workplace

1 posted on 12/22/2007 7:13:48 PM PST by flowerplough
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To: flowerplough

Interesting that not all of the PC, anti white, anglo saxon mentality is accepted blindly by all.


2 posted on 12/22/2007 7:18:44 PM PST by bill1952 (The right to buy weapons is the right to be free)
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To: flowerplough

Obviously this is bogus. Black people are incapable of discriminating against white people, because the black people have no power. These two agents simply failed to pick up on their inherent power, as white people, to prevent harrassment by their black superiors.

Naturally, they should have been fired, for reverse double-back inside-out discrimination, for failing to have sympathy for the past history of slavery that their bosses were helpless victims of. Naturally, they owe their bosses reparations.
/sarc


3 posted on 12/22/2007 7:20:40 PM PST by jim35 ("...when the lion and the lamb lie down together, ...we'd better damn sure be the lion")
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To: flowerplough
reverse discrimination

What you can sue someone for not discriminating against you? After all, the reverse of discrimination is necessarily not discrimination. The trial lawyers are constantly coming up with new torts. What harm can you cause someone by not discriminating against them?
4 posted on 12/22/2007 7:22:43 PM PST by JLS
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To: JLS
If the person that coined the phrase “reverse discrimination” is a lawyer I would suggest he go back to school . 5th grade ought to be about right .
5 posted on 12/22/2007 7:29:10 PM PST by kbennkc (For those who have fought for it , freedom has a flavor the protected will never know)
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To: flowerplough
The circle is complete.

We create the abomnination that is the DEA, the DEA does its job, the DEA sues us and wins because it doesn't understand its job, and the cycle continues.

By the time the baby boomers are slobbering over their lime jello in nursing homes, that will be a target of law enforcement,

6 posted on 12/22/2007 7:33:36 PM PST by elkfersupper
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To: bill1952

Why hasn’t this entire jury been sentenced to attend a race relations seminar?


7 posted on 12/22/2007 7:39:04 PM PST by BTCM (Death and destruction is the only treaty Muslims comprehend.)
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To: All
"LET ME TELL YOU: The brothers and sisters are running the city. Oh, yes. The brothers and sisters are running this city. Running it! Don't you let nobody fool you; we are in charge of the City of Brotherly Love. We are in charge! We are in charge!"

---Philadelphia Mayor John Street at a meeting of the local NAACP on April 13, 2002

8 posted on 12/22/2007 7:43:11 PM PST by BushMeister ("We are a nation that has a government - not the other way around." --Ronald Reagan)
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To: flowerplough
... claims against the feds are capped by law at $300,000 ...

Why doesn't that surprise me?

9 posted on 12/22/2007 8:55:32 PM PST by RobinOfKingston (Man, that's stupid...even by congressional standards.)
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To: kbennkc

Right, and I view the use of the term as a sign of accepting the terms, ground rules and language of liberalism.


10 posted on 12/22/2007 9:55:24 PM PST by JLS
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To: flowerplough

BUMP!


11 posted on 12/22/2007 10:00:01 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: bill1952

It simply boils down to when caucasians will get angry. Will it happen when whites realize that they have become so marginalized by liberal race mongers that the hate will never end?


12 posted on 12/22/2007 10:55:26 PM PST by TheThinker
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To: flowerplough

Let’s see if there is any justice in the DEA. Federal law requires all supervisors to have a mandatory critical element in their performance appraisals dealing with their enforcement of EEO laws. Not meeting that standard results in an unsatisfactory performance rating which is supposed to result in removal from the position—either to a nonsupervisory position with a lifetime ban from being placed into a supervisory position or demotion or outright removal. I have $100 that says the DEA “leadership” in Washington will look the other way.


13 posted on 12/23/2007 3:35:01 AM PST by MIchaelTArchangel
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To: TheThinker

I am very angry and mostly at the liberal mindset that is destroying us.

My further clarification of that in this forum would likely get me banned.


14 posted on 12/23/2007 4:28:12 AM PST by bill1952 (The right to buy weapons is the right to be free)
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To: MIchaelTArchangel

Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued, and what massive potential you have.

- Theodore Roosevelt


15 posted on 12/23/2007 4:29:51 AM PST by bill1952 (The right to buy weapons is the right to be free)
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