Beverly Hills Tentatively Settles Black Police Officer's Discrimination Suit

LOS ANGELES, CA — The city of Beverly Hills has tentatively settled a lawsuit filed by a Black former Beverly Hills police officer who contended he was forced to resign in 2021 due to harassment from other officers and supervisors.

In his Los Angeles Superior Court complaint, plaintiff Daryl Glover also alleged that one boss said there are too many Blacks and "thugs" in Beverly Hills who make the city look like a ghetto, and that some officers wondered how he got a job with the BHPD.

On Monday, Glover's attorney filed court papers with Judge Richard S. Kemalyan notifying him of a "conditional" resolution in the case with the expectation a request for dismissal will be filed by Feb. 11. No terms were divulged and it was not immediately clear if final approval is up to the City Council.

In their previous court papers, city attorneys stated that Glover's performance was "consistently deficient in most of the performance anchors, with little to no improvement throughout his six-month probationary training period."

Glover was ultimately asked to resign due to his documented integrity issues, including inaccurate police reports and lying to his training officers and Glover has no evidence that his race played any role in the city's decision asking him to quit, according to the city lawyers' pleadings.

Glover's suit filed in February 2023 alleged discrimination, harassment and retaliation. The complaint stated that Glover is a former LAPD officer who left that department on good terms and that some supervisors there urged him to stay. Glover joined the BHPD in December 2020.

Glover maintains his supervisor berated him for asking questions and that the boss left in a patrol car for long periods of time while the supervisor ran personal errands or ate lunch.

"Every time Mr. Glover went to work at BHPD, he would have stomach aches or painful migraine headaches from the stress due to his mistreatment," according to the suit, which alleged that the plaintiff worked for a time as a security guard after leaving the BHPD.

Glover has since returned to being an officer with the LAPD, despite one or more BHPD employees providing the LAPD with negative, false information about the plaintiff during the application process, the suit stated.

According to the Beverly Hills' attorneys' court papers, Glover never adjusted to the differences in priorities between the LAPD and the BHPD. BHPD placed more of an emphasis on learning the municipal code than the LAPD as well as a greater emphasis on enforcing local violations, the city's attorneys further state in their court papers.

Also, the BHPD places greater priority on orientation and learning the geography of the city than does the LAPD, according to the city's attorneys' pleadings, which further state that Glover nonetheless believed the transition from the LAPD to the BHPD would not be hard.

City News Service