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White St. Louis Cop Is Super-Upset He Didn’t Get the Police Chief Job

It’s not the first time Assistant Chief Lawrence O’Toole has played this card.

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St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department

By Tracy Connor

St. Louis Police Assistant Chief Lawrence O’Toole—who was temporarily running the department when his officers beat a black undercover officer during race-fueled protests—is claiming that he wasn’t promoted afterwards because he’s white. O’Toole is suing the city and the department, two years after he filed a complaint alleging the chief selection process was biased because he didn’t get the job. A citizen advisory board was created to select a new chief after the unrest in 2017, and John Hayden, who is black, was given the job, which he still holds. The city has not commented on the suit.

Read it at St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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