"His motive simply was to tell the truth and to end facts constantly being swept under the rug," says his attorney Chris Madel
The attorney representing a whistleblower within the Minneapolis Police Department says more could soon come out about the alleged misconduct of former Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara.
Chris Madel told WCCO Radio's Chad Hartman his client has faced continued retaliation for bringing damaging information to light, detailed in a recent Minnesota Star Tribune article.
"His motive simply was to tell the truth and to end this sort of, facts constantly being swept under the rug, and this culture of intimidation and retaliation," says Madel. "It has to stop, Chad. It just has to stop."
The 32-page lawsuit has not been filed in court. Madel says that decision is ultimately up to his client who has not been named, but the allegations are damning.
"The timing, it was sent to city attorneys two full weeks before former Chief O'Hara was renominated by the mayor, and it contained both things that we know to be true, including the existence of this recording that prompted the reopening of the misconduct investigation to the chief," Sawyer told WCCO's Jason DeRusha on Monday. "But it also included some new allegations we had not heard before, including some very serious ones that we thought the public had a right to know. And wondered whether the city had taken any steps."
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