New London — Police Sgt. Cornelius Rodgers, whose claims of racial discrimination at the police department have led to an outside investigation, now alleges he is inappropriately being passed over for upcoming promotions.
Rodgers filed two recent grievances with the city and has a new complaint with the Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities in which he claims, in part, that the police department and union retaliated against him for a previous complaint and took him out of the running for a promotion to lieutenant.
“The NLPD and union are conspiring to assert a wrong interpretation of the union contract to drop my ranking and remove my status,” Rodgers contends in a CHRO complaint.