White officer sues Florida police dept. after three POC are promoted
Sgt. Patrick McNally has filed suit against the North Miami Police Department claiming that white people are being discriminated against.
According to the lawsuit, filed December 5, McNally is a “white, U.S.-born police sergeant who was passed over for a promotion to commander, for which he was qualified, in favor of three (Haitian, Hispanic, and African-American) sergeants.”
McNally claimed specifically that former Chief Gary Eugene would make hiring and promotional decisions that would benefit Haitian-Americans, because he was one himself. McNally claimed that whites on the force were “discriminated” against because Eugene said that he wanted the force to “mirror” the predominately Black and Haitian community.
The suit claims that Eugene even admitted to making promotional decisions that were “not based on merit.”
McNally insisted that Eugene “engaged in a cluster of race-based promotional decisions” and specifically pointed to Eugene’s decisions on “promoting Sergeants Emile Hollant, a Haitian; Rafael Estrugo, a Hispanic; and Angelo Brinson, an African-American, over McNally.”
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“Mr. McNally’s race (white) was a substantial, motivating cause of former Chief Eugene’s passing over McNally for promotion to commander of police in favor of Messrs. Hollant, Estrugo, and Brinson,” McNally’s suit reads.
Eugene himself left the force after the shooting of Charles Kinsey, an unarmed behavioral therapist who had been trying to help an autistic man. When it was revealed that Eugene gave contradicting statements on the matter, City Manager Larry Spring demanded his resignation. Eugene is now suing the department.
