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Two Black former Worcester police officers win another legal battle in decades-old discrimination case that could cost city millions
WORCESTER Two Black police officers embroiled in a 26-year legal battle with the city over alleged discriminatory promotional practices have won another legal ruling in a case their lawyer estimates could cost the city as much as $6.5 million.
“It’s really sad they’ve prolonged this,” Harold Lichten, a Boston labor lawyer who has been pursuing the case for decades, said of the city.
Lichten represents Spencer Tatum and Andrew Harris, two Black police officers who sued the Worcester Police Department in the mid-1990s alleging the city discriminated against them by bypassing them for promotions to sergeant.