N.J. Jury Rules Black Supervisors Discriminated Against White Corrections Officers

CBA ^ | 9/6/2012 | CBS

[Titus-Maximus]

RENTON, N.J. (CBSNewYork) — A New Jersey discrimination suit has been settled with two white corrections officers winning against the state’s Department of Corrections.

The outcome of the lawsuit is seen as a big win for corrections officers Joe Milutin and Bob Healey. Both were awarded more than $3 million in damages.

“I’m happy. I was vindicated and that’s all that matters,” Healey said.

Milutin, meanwhile, told CBS 2′s John Slattery on Thursday that he felt “relieved.”

The two men had charged that over several years, they were harassed by black corrections supervisors, who allowed black inmates to abuse them at the Bordentown Boot Camp Jail.

“I had racial remarks used against me, I’ll leave it at that,” Healey said. “It was demeaning.”

His attorneys said the two officers were subjected to a litany of slurs by black supervisors.

“They were called, ‘crackers,’ ‘white devils,’ ‘onions,’ which we learned was an epithet used by one individual supervisor to refer to white people,” said attorney Gina Mendola Longarzo.

[Titus-Maximus]

Man bites dog.

[glorgau]

Impossible.
They must have been clearly inferior employees that couldn’t even succeed with the added benefit of “white privilege”.

[heartwood]

Just lovely. NJ taxpayers, like me and my husband, have to pay for state’s lawyers, the damages awarded, and the salaries and pensions for the supervisors - they don’t seem to have been fired for racial discrimination or for fostering a dangerous environment in the jail.

[SeminoleCounty]

Nothing demonstrates sheer ignorance more than a White Guilt Liberal who denies the existence of Black Racism

This is a huge win for All Civil Rights...NJ is a very liberal state, yet rose above White Guilt Liberalism to rule correctly for whites being discriminated against

[Focault's Pendulum]

NJ is a very liberal state

Monmouth County NJ always votes conservative. So does Hunterdon.

[oh8eleven]

Just lovely. NJ taxpayers, like me and my husband, have to pay for state’s lawyers, the damages awarded, and the salaries and pensions for the supervisors
A couple of weeks ago, in NY State ...

"On Wednesday the state of New York awarded the Chamberys $25 million after a federal jury in Rochester
determined that state Department of Health officials had forced the 1999 closure of Beechwood in a retaliation against its owners."

"[Those sued were] current Health Department officials Susan Baker and Cynthia Francis; and former officials Laura Leeds,
Sanford Rubin and Sharon Carlo. They will not be liable for the $25 million; the state will pay the award.

Sooooo, isn't that grand - the "state" (i.e. the taxpayers!) will pay and the real criminals go scott free.

[Elle Bee]

and will the black 'supervisors' be disciplined or discharged for their malicious acts and cost to the NJ taxpayers? .... don't hold your breath

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[yank in the UK]

I was a corrections officer for the state of Tennessee 20 years ago. I was one of only 3 Caucasian people that worked as officers at the facility, I was subjected to racial abuse on a daily basis by the inmates and my coworkers. It happened several times a day, every day. Because I was a white male, I was treated worse then the inmates by my coworkers. I know exactly what these people put up with, and I'm glad they got a settlement. Is there a statute of limitations on that? In the politically correct 90’s if I had contacted a lawyer, I would have been laughed out of the office for being a white victim of racial discrimination, so I didn't even bother.

[Chode]

thank you...

[School of Rational Thought]

The black boot of racism

[PoloSec]

Nothing in the article about it, but I’ll betcha those supervisors still have their jobs, or if not, better paying jobs, with great ease.