He said this was the worst harassment he'd ever seen on the bench, and called it a classic case of supervisory liability.''Ī lawyer for Nassau County, Chris P. ''He's giving them the same exact level of protection as blacks and women. ''This judge said homosexuality is protected,'' Mr. Ostrove, in a decision handed down from the bench last week which he is expected to put in writing soon. Spatt of Federal District Court in Uniondale, N.Y., agreed, according to Mr. Quinn's lawyers, Leonard Leeds and Rick Ostrove, pursued a different strategy: They sued under a civil rights statute that bars a law enforcement officer from violating a citizen's constitutional rights, and argued that gay people were entitled to protection from harassment under that statute through the constitutional guarantee of equal protection. He said he moved from Middle Island, on Long Island, to upstate New York because the abuse did not stop when he left the force. He retired in 1996 because of a back injury and now receives disability pay. Quinn, 38, said his supervisors ignored his repeated complaints about his treatment. In one instance, a nightstick labeled as a sexual device belonging to him was left in his patrol car.
Quinn, who joined the force in 1986, charged that after his sexual orientation was revealed to officers at his precinct in 1987, he increasingly became the subject of humiliating pranks, with pornographic pictures and doctored records hung around the station house referring to him as a child molester or a transvestite. Advocates for gay men and lesbians said they believed the verdict would encourage other police officers, who rarely file such complaints because they fear reprisals, to come forward.
The remaining portion of the video was withheld from public view. According to ABC 7, the Texas AG’s office says the redaction is allowed because, “the portion of that video would be highly intimate or embarrassing, the publication of which would be highly objectionable to a reasonable person and of no legitimate public concern.”Īccording to the internal investigation, the pair would go on to engage in intercourse for an extended period, and Pasadena PD says this incident happened while Officer Mubarak was on duty, while parked in a parking lot.A former Nassau County police officer who said he was subjected to nine years of incessant and often vicious harassment after his colleagues and supervisors learned he was gay was awarded $380,000 in damages today by a Federal jury.Įxperts on discrimination law said the verdict marked the first time in New York State and one of the few times elsewhere in the United States that a jury has held a government entity liable for a campaign of anti-gay harassment. Moments later, the woman leans down toward Mubarak’s lap and disappears. The officer can be heard moaning, and then the police scanner blows up - however, those calls for help would fall on deaf ears. Shortly after that, she leans toward the officer and the two begin kissing. The woman in the car is part of the citizen ride-along program who took her position in the front seat to an extreme.Īs the video begins, the young woman is seen rubbing officer Mubarak’s leg. Although approximately 23 minutes of the video has been redacted, what happened in the car is glaringly obvious. While the incident happened last August, the heavily redacted in-car video was not released until this week. In spite of being grossly derelict in his duties, getting paid with taxpayer money to have sex, and refusing to do his job - officer Jeff Mubarak was never fired. Pasadena, TX - The in-car video of a Pasadena police officer was released publicly this week showing him ignoring calls and opting to have sex on duty instead.