A dozen Philadelphia police officers who were fired or suspended for racist and violent social media posts can pursue a lawsuit against the city claiming their First Amendment rights were violated.
A dozen Philadelphia police officers who were fired or suspended for racist and violent social media posts can pursue a lawsuit against the city claiming their First Amendment rights were violated, a federal appeals court ruled.catalogued thousands of bigoted or violent postsIn Philadelphia, nearly 200 officers were disciplined, including 15 who were forced off the job.
The plaintiffs "played racist bingo, mocking as many ethnic or religious groups as possible," U.S. District Judge Petrese Tucker wrote last year. "Posts like the officers’ have the capacity to confirm the community’s worst fears about bias in policing," the three-judge panel wrote.
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