*Six black Philadelphia police officers have filed complaints with a state anti-discrimination agency claiming their white supervisors are racist, corrupt and should be fired from their positions, according to Philly.com.
Rochelle Bilal, president of the Guardian Civic League – a group that represents black Philadelphia police officers – said at the organization’s Girard Avenue headquarters said the complaints are against two narcotics bureau inspectors, Chief Inspector Anthony Boyle and Inspector Raymond Evers.
Complaints against the pair include allowing a worker to park his Confederate flag-decorated truck on city property, denying black officers equal opportunities for overtime and work assignments, referring to black civilians as “scum” and calling black civilian killings “thinning the herd.” Bilal says the supervisors also encouraged falsification of documents and evidence related to arrests.
Two of the black officers filed complaints about Boyle and Evers with the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission in late August, according to the group’s attorney Brian R. Mildenberg. One of the complaining officers is Staff Inspector Debra Frazier, the unit’s highest-ranking black official and its integrity officer, and the five others are remaining anonymous because they are afraid of retaliation, Mildenberg said.
The officers are currently exploring whether or not to file a civil suit, Mildenberg said.
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