Wilson Lau claims he was wrongly blamed for a cover-up of an Oakland police sergeant’s misconduct.
The former Oakland police captain at the center of a misconduct cover-up scandal last year claims in a new federal lawsuitafter the explosive Oakland Police Department scandal came to light. He is seeking damages from both agencies, which are listed as defendants in the complaint.
“Those allegations,” the lawsuit states, “were completely without merit and demonstrate unlawful racial bias.” Lau, meanwhile, has hired longtime East Bay civil-rights attorney Dan Siegel, a frequent critic of police and a 2014 mayoral candidate in Oakland, to represent him. He also alleges it was Sgt. Lee who omitted key details of Chung’s hit-and-run in a report presented to Chief LeRonne Armstrong while Lau was on an end-of-year vacation.
The internal affairs report ultimately described the hit-and-run as simply a traffic collision, and made no mention of Chung dating a subordinate officer who had been riding in the OPD vehicle with him.
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