FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Just weeks after taking over as Fort Lauderdale’s new top cop, Patrick Lynn has promoted four veteran officers who filed federal discrimination complaints six months ago. The officers claim they were passed over for promotion by former Chief Larry Scirotto because they had the wrong skin color or were the wrong gender.
The officers — one white woman, two white men and one Hispanic man — had no inkling they were being promoted until the chief announced it on Wednesday, said attorney Tonja Haddad-Coleman, who represents the four officers.
“We won,” Haddad-Coleman said in an email to the South Florida Sun Sentinel on Wednesday. By Thursday, she was singing a different tune.
