Jury awards Boston city worker $10.9 million in racial-discrimination and retaliation suit

Everybody sue their employers! We're being discriminated against, turns out we're supposed to be promoted every year even if we just sit on our asses and don't do anything!

Because the government violated the law and got hit with a fair punishment. I am so sick of random jerks on the internet who don't do basic research, don't read the article, and just assume that race discrimination lawsuits are frivolous.

The jury found that Leo and the City had not only engaged in a pattern of discrimination against black employees, but that they had also retaliated against Charles when she filed a charge of discrimination at the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination

The 'retaliation' bit is probably the bulk of the $10m. It's one thing for a department to not manage their history of race discrimination, but quite another to attack employees who call them out on it. Both are illegal.

What the law says.

What was going on in that department and systematic practices of discrimination.

That the courts know the laws better than you.

Etc.

there's a history of discrimination lawsuits because some minority employees were encouraged to sue by 'advocates' and ambulance chasing lawyers, who know suing a government for discrimination is a slam dunk? 30 years on the job, undoubtedly well paid, close to or at retirement age; what a nice nest egg $10 million will make. Yes, I'm jaded,but I could very well be right. In our world, my theory is just as probable as this woman actually being a victim of discrimination based on her 'race'.