WASHINGTON, Dec. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sergeant Charlotte Djossou, a 18-year veteran of the District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department (MPD), has uncovered extensive evidence of wrongdoing by MPD in her whistleblower case against the District. She is represented by Lynne Bernabei at Bernabei & Kabat, PLLC, and Joe Caleb at CalebAndonian. Her lawsuit describes the retaliation she suffered from the highest levels of MPD after she reported illegal jump outs that targeted young Black men in Black neighborhoods and the misclassification of serious crimes as lesser crimes to give a false view of MDP's reduction in crime.
She was the subject of an in-depth article by USA Today, which highlighted her struggles and those of other women officers in the MPD as they tried to do their jobs.
In the course of her lawsuit, Sergeant Djossou has uncovered that MPD drove out other veteran officers after they reported illegal MPD police tactics. One repeatedly reported that officers jumped out on young Black men, without legal basis, and abused them. Her supervisors retaliated against her when she reported this abuse and the racism in her assigned MPD unit. Another officer, Felicia Carson, brought her own lawsuit when MPD terminated her contract because she diligently investigated an MPD officer's abusive and illegal arrest of a Black man—an incident that Sergeant Djossou...
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