A gay police officer has filed a discrimination suit against the city and the New York Police Department, saying he was threatened with violence, called vulgar names and treated unfairly by supervisors because of his sexuality.The lawsuit was filed by Michael Harrington, 30, who claimed his superior officers failed to take proper action when he told them about the malicious and discriminatory mistreatment he suffered.
"The hell he's gone through is heart wrenching," said Harrington's lawyer, George D. Rosenbaum.
Connie Pankratz, spokeswoman for the city's Law Department, said the city had not seen the lawsuit and could not comment
Harrington, a police officer since July 2002, says in court papers he disclosed to another officer at the 75th Precinct in the East New York section of Brooklyn in February 2003 that he was gay, and that was the beginning of his problems with co-workers. (keep reading)
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