A sergeant who already continues the San Diego police service on reprisals and discrimination complaints now fights a dismissal notice, saying that he was poorly opposed and that officials did not follow the rules by trying to dismiss him.
Sgt. Arthur Scott, who is black and served the department for more than two decades, says he is reproducing after testifying to the name of another officer who said she had been sexually harassed.
Scott was initially demoted to the traffic division in the midst of an unpertified criminal investigation and was then informed that he had been dismissed, according to the judicial archives.
He continued the city in 2023, alleging that he had been retaliated for having testified in support of Nasira Johnson, who said in a 2019 trial that she had been wrongly favored by a superior officer and also subject to inappropriate comments.
A jury noted in 2022 that Johnson was subject to unwanted harassment and that he was serious or omnipresent, but also noted that the city was not responsible for driving.
The case of Scott was planned for a jury trial this summer, but was now delayed while Scott fights for his work.
His lawyers ask a judge of the Superior Court of San Diego to make an order from the court arresting termination on the grounds that the heads of the department did not follow the protocols required to end an employee.
“Following the opinion of an unfavorable action, the identified deadlines exceed the one year limitation period to serve the proposed discipline,” said the request for an order from the court.
A spokesperson for the San Diego police department refused to comment on the dispute, citing a city policy not to discuss pending proceedings or active prosecution.
Scott said in his trial in 2023 that the officials of the department moved to dismiss him after continuing the city in 2015 – and lost – and after testifying to San Diego in the Johnson trial. In his initial case, he accused the city of reprisals and discrimination after reporting an animated cartoon representing blacks as monkeys was used in a training session of the department.
“The applicant did not receive damages in this trial (2015), but the jury concluded that the SDPD had retaliated against him,” said the legal complaint of 2023.
“Subsequently, without reason, the SGT. Scott was transferred to the central division of the SDPD and denied a promotion of the sergeant-detective,” said the trial of discrimination and reprisals brought in 2023.
According to the request to stop the proposed dismissal, Scott was placed for the first time on administrative leave in 2022, shortly after his testimony in the Johnson case. He said that he had not been told what he had hurt, except that he was the subject of a criminal investigation.
The district prosecutor’s office informed the prosecutor’s office of the city of San Diego a year later that Scott was not accused of perjury, the petition said.
At one point later, Scott learned that he was the subject of an administrative investigation carried out by an external law firm. At the beginning of last year, he received the conclusions – which were not disclosed in the court of the court.
“The investigation did not include when the administrative investigation began or when the investigation into criminal investigation was launched or by whom,” said the petition.
Lawyers on both sides of the Scott -suspended reprisals and discrimination case agreed to delay the trial until next year.
The city has not yet responded to the request for an order from the court arresting the dismissal plan.
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California Daily Newspapers
