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‘Caucasian’ Chicago cop sues the city for the right to change his ethnicity in personnel files
CWB Chicago ^ | February 27, 2024 | CWB Chicago staff writer

Posted on 02/27/2024 7:08:08 AM PST by Salman

CHICAGO — A 20-year veteran of the Chicago Police Department has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the city, alleging that his race is listed as Caucasian in his personnel file, but he “currently identifies as Egyptian and African American.”

Mohammad Yusuf, 43, claims that the department only offered Caucasian, Black, and Hispanic as race designations when he joined the force in 2004, so he chose “Caucasian.” But the department now allows incoming officers to choose from “over nine” different racial designations, the lawsuit says.

The police department has a “blanket prohibition” against changing an officer’s race in its records. Yet, it allows officers to “have their gender identity corrected to match their lived experience,” Yusuf’s suit claims.

Even after Yusuf presented the results of a “23 and Me” genetic test to prove his heritage, the department said it was “not possible” to let him select another ethnicity for his personnel file.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: chicago
I think he has a case.

This is what passes (involuntarily) for "Caucasian".

1 posted on 02/27/2024 7:08:08 AM PST by Salman
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To: Salman

It was just a matter of time before this became an issue of serious consideration. Rachel D. has been validated and vindicated!


2 posted on 02/27/2024 7:18:40 AM PST by lee martell
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To: Salman

Twenty years ago volunteering that he was “a Caucasian” was more beneficial than declaring to be and African or Egyptian.


3 posted on 02/27/2024 7:21:14 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (John Oliver is a racist liberal biatch.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Egyptian wasn’t a choice


4 posted on 02/27/2024 7:23:59 AM PST by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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To: Salman

Gender is subjective.

Just like race.

You can be anything you want to be.

Note to Deep State: Hoist!


5 posted on 02/27/2024 7:25:48 AM PST by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: Salman
Many Egyptians, especially Coptic Christians, possess features that are distinct from Arabs. On streets in Cairo you will encounter people with long faces and large eyes that will remind you of four thousand year old tomb paintings. The actor Rami Malek is an example. In that context I can maybe understand where this guy is coming from.

But if he wants special treatment on account of his genetics he can GFHS.

6 posted on 02/27/2024 7:29:07 AM PST by katana
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To: Salman

Before changing his ethnicity he must first prove that he can WALK LIKE AN EGYPTIAN!


7 posted on 02/27/2024 7:30:06 AM PST by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA. -PRO-MAX)
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To: Salman

https://customercare.23andme.com/hc/en-us/articles/227968028-How-23andMe-Personal-Genetic-Service-Works

https://customercare.23andme.com/hc/en-us/articles/360010964373-How-23andMe-Uses-Your-Self-Reported-Sex-and-Gender


8 posted on 02/27/2024 7:32:49 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: Salman

OH, STFU.


9 posted on 02/27/2024 7:35:32 AM PST by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: Salman

Would you be surprised to learn he looks exactly like your average American black?


10 posted on 02/27/2024 7:35:41 AM PST by Blurb2350 (posted from my 1500-watt blow dryer)
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To: Salman

This is what is important to a 20-year cop??? What is missing from this story? Why is this important? Does it change his current or retirement pay? I don’t get the whole identity politics-I know in the end it is about money, always is.


11 posted on 02/27/2024 7:39:14 AM PST by GMThrust
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To: Blurb2350
Would you be surprised to learn he looks exactly like your average American black?

Of course. Glom onto "white privilege" until it's not advantageous.

I still want him to win. That way if he has to shoot a black criminal in self defense, it won't be a white cop who did it.

12 posted on 02/27/2024 7:40:23 AM PST by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: Salman

My adopted son’s birth mother was adopted herself from Central America so she is 100% Hispanic. My son gets listed on everything as Hispanic because it is now a spoils system and I will give him every advantage if that is the game they want to play.


13 posted on 02/27/2024 7:41:43 AM PST by gunnut
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To: Salman
OK,fair enough! If he identifies as a half black,half Latino,half Native American transgendered lesbian then that's what his personnel file should say.

And he should get promotions and raises that are commensurate with his newfound victimhood.

14 posted on 02/27/2024 7:42:18 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Proudly Clinging To My Guns And My Religion)
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To: gunnut
About 50 years ago I was doing the last couple of years of my enlistment in the Ready Reserves...in a hospital unit. During one weekend drill we were assigned the task of giving shots to kids in the area. I was assigned to take their demographic info.One of the questions I was to ask was "race". One kid,a black kid,very clearly and matter-of-factly,replied "human" I wanted to applaud him but all I could do was smile a bit.

I'll never forget it.I wonder how that kid turned out...I hope he's doing well.

15 posted on 02/27/2024 7:49:17 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Proudly Clinging To My Guns And My Religion)
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To: Salman

Applying a race to a person against his determination is unconstitutional as long as such instances as job quotas or educational school entries are involved for people wihin the country. I can’t remember any application or designation question by anyone that doesn’t have either “other” or “unknown.”

Race designation is based upon past designation. If he had checked either of the two above options, it would have had to remain that way.

I’ve had a running gun battle with the census for years because my father was adopted and there is no medical records for him anywhere. Thus I don’t have a confirmed race so I use one of the two option above. And they have questioned me on it. That is the reason they make those options available.

wy69


16 posted on 02/27/2024 9:00:35 AM PST by whitney69 (yption tunnels)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

So, he is one of the bloody idiots who claim that Nefertiti (sp?) was black?


17 posted on 02/27/2024 9:30:21 AM PST by bobbo666 (Baizuo, )
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To: katana

I don’t know Mohammad Yusuf personally, but I would bet that he is not a Coptic Christian.


18 posted on 02/27/2024 10:59:57 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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