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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 4374366" data-attributes="member: 12952"><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>Oregon man wins $1.15 million after boss gets police chief pal to arrest him amid racism complaints</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>Michael Fesser, 48, of Portland, last week settled his lawsuit against the West Linn Police Department for $600,000.</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>Fesser had previously settled his claim against his former boss, Eric Benson, for $415,000. Benson owns A&B Towing in Southeast Portland.</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>On Thursday, a West Linn city attorney released a long-secret, 100-page internal report that dealt with allegations of West Linn Police Chief Terry Timeus making racist, homophobic, anti-Semitic and sexist comments while on the job as a Lake Oswego police officer, the post he held prior to becoming West Linn chief in 2005</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>Police Chief Terry Timeus had his officers work as his “personal posse” to initiate an unwarranted, racially motivated surveillance and arrest of a black Portland man as a favor to the chief’s fishing buddy ( Benson ).</strong></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 4374366, member: 12952"] [SIZE=6][B]Oregon man wins $1.15 million after boss gets police chief pal to arrest him amid racism complaints[/B] [B][/B] [B]Michael Fesser, 48, of Portland, last week settled his lawsuit against the West Linn Police Department for $600,000.[/B] [B]Fesser had previously settled his claim against his former boss, Eric Benson, for $415,000. Benson owns A&B Towing in Southeast Portland.[/B] [B]On Thursday, a West Linn city attorney released a long-secret, 100-page internal report that dealt with allegations of West Linn Police Chief Terry Timeus making racist, homophobic, anti-Semitic and sexist comments while on the job as a Lake Oswego police officer, the post he held prior to becoming West Linn chief in 2005[/B] [B]Police Chief Terry Timeus had his officers work as his “personal posse” to initiate an unwarranted, racially motivated surveillance and arrest of a black Portland man as a favor to the chief’s fishing buddy ( Benson ).[/B][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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