A former St Louis police officer has been awarded a $7.5million judgement after claiming in a lawsuit that her superior sexually harassed her and she suffered retaliation for complaining.
Tanisha Ross-Paige, a one-time canine officer, won $300,000 in compensatory damages and $7.2 million in punitive damages from the St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners Friday in what has been described as possibly the highest verdict in such a case in Missouri’s history.
However, the jury sided with the police board on a discrimination claim. Read more
