The city of Los Angeles has agreed to pay $50,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by a former Los Angeles Police Department detective who was fired after making racially charged remarks during a training session and then sued to get his job back.
The settlement signals the end of a federal lawsuit that Frank Lyga filed last year, alleging the city discriminated against him because he was a “white police officer who was wrongfully perceived to be racist.”
“Lyga was not reinstated as part of the agreement,” said Rob Wilcox, a spokesman for the city attorney’s office.
Under the terms of the agreement — signed by Lyga late last month and by a deputy city attorney on Friday — the city admitted no “past or present wrongdoing.”
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