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Female ex-police officers win $1 million bias verdict against Philadelphia

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PHILADELPHIA - Two former police officers whose gender discrimination and sexual harassment lawsuit led Philadelphia’s police commissioner to resign have won a $1 million verdict against the city.A federal jury on Tuesday found that Cpl.

Audra McCowan and Patrol Officer Jennifer Allen endured a hostile work environment that included being put in undesirable jobs, with changing shifts, after they raised sexual harassment complaints.

They each won $500,000.McCowan, Allen's supervisor, alleged that former Commissioner Richard Ross failed to help because she had ended a romantic relationship with him in 2011.

Ross denied engaging in any retaliation, but resigned, when the allegations surfaced in 2019, for what he called the good of the city.The city then hired Commissioner Danielle Outlaw, the first Black woman to lead the department, to succeed him.McCowan now works at a school for less than half her former pay, while Allen remains unable to work, according to their lawyer, Ian Bryson.

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