‘Find Another Job Pumping Gas’: Female Detectives Punished for Speaking Out In Response to Years of Racist, Sexist Abuse by White Male Supervisors Win Settlement

‘Find Another Job Pumping Gas’: Female Detectives Punished for Speaking Out In Response to Years of Racist, Sexist Abuse by White Male Supervisors Win Settlement

Two female detectives have reached a settlement with the Cape May County Prosecutor’s Office in New Jersey and with two white male supervisors they sued for racial and gender discrimination. Detectives Lakeisha Davis, who is Black, and Kathryn Gannon, who is white, filed a civil rights lawsuit against the prosecutor’s office in 2022, claiming they were subjected to derogatory comments, denied promotions, subjected to a hostile work atmosphere an…