City Still Faces Suit Over Racist Website for Cops
City Still Faces Suit Over Racist Website for Cops
PHILADELPHIA (CN) - A black cop can pursue claims that the city turned a blind eye as white officers wrote "insulting, disgusting and racist postings" about her on the website Domelights.com, a federal judge ruled.
One post called the plaintiff, Shanda White, a "monkey, primate, gorilla ... who drug her knuckles on the ground." It was published after two white officers nearly hit her son with a police car and then falsely arrested her.
Domelights.com is a website "that allows and encourages racist postings concerning African-Americans and African American police officers to the Internet message boards," according to the complaint. "White police officers use Domelights.com at work, in front of African-American police officers, and discuss the contents of this racist website, make jokes about it, and just simply say the word: 'Domelights.'"
Though Domelights writers use anonymous screen names, White says claims it is well known within the Police Department that the writers are a group of white officers. The site takes its name from the police lights on top of a police vehicle.
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