The Nation - News from Dec. 31, 1986
A federal judge overturned a $4.29-million jury verdict in favor of 13 white Chicago police officers who claimed they were transferred because of their race and political beliefs. U.S. District Judge Milton I. Shadur ruled the 13 officers failed to prove discrimination charges against the City of Chicago and Raleigh Mathis, former head of the Office of Municipal Investigations. The officers claimed they were transferred from the OMI because they were white and because they supported former Mayor Jane M. Byrne’s unsuccessful reelection bid over Harold Washington, who became the city’s first black mayor in 1983.
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