Two former LAPD officers have offered sworn testimony to support a lawsuit against Beverly Hills Police, claiming the department racially profiled them.
A Black LAPD officer was driving an unmarked Crown Victoria in Beverly Hills, with exempt plates that would have made it clear to most he was sitting in a law enforcement car. Then he saw the red and blue lights behind him. 'The female officer yelled out, 'Let me see your hands,'' reads a sworn statement from the officer, who is now a sergeant in the Los Angeles Police Department. 'I was terrified.
' Gage and Crump said their 2-year-old suit has continued to yield evidence of discrimination and profiling by the Police Department, including the accounts of one current Los Angeles police officer and one former who said they were targeted for being Black despite obvious indications they were police officers.
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