The Ohio Civil Rights Commission must still approve the settlement involving Sheffield Lake Police Department and its now ex-officer Keith Pool, an African-American man.
The Supreme Court of Ohio ruled recently that Sheffield Lake officials made reasonable, but unsuccessful, efforts to uncover racist or disparaging documents from the computer of a former police chief who was caught on video placing a “Ku Klux Klan” sign on the coat of a Black police officer.
A second police officer from Sheffield Lake, Ohio, alleged that former chief Anthony Campo, who was ousted last year for placing a cutout of a Klu Klux Klan sign on a Black officer's desk, had also allegedly harassed a Latino officer.