DETECTIVE WINS $1.3 MILLION IN DISCRIMINATION SUIT.Byline: Jaxon Van Derbeken Daily News Staff Writer A Superior Court jury has awarded $1.3 million to an African-American detective who claimed that he was denied entry into the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Police Department's elite air support unit. Detective Patrick ``P.J.'' Green, who works the department's Valley Forgery forgery, in art forgery, in art, the false claim to authenticity for a work of art. The Nature of Forgery Because the provenance of works of art is seldom clear and because their origin is often judged by means of subtle factors, art detail, sued the department, claiming a pattern of discrimination over a 15-year period. ``I feel vindicated,'' Green said following Friday's finding by the jury that concluded a six-week civil trial. ``We're talking about 15 years, it's a long time.'' Green, 44, said that over that period, he was accepted once for a 30-day trial basis as an observer. But he left within a week, he said, because of the open hostility. Green said Monday that he still wants to join Air Support. ``Give me a flight suit and let me go.'' The Los Angeles City Attorney's CERTIFICATE, ATTORNEY'S, Practice, English law. By statute 37 Geo. III., c. 90, s. 26, 28, attorneys are required to deliver to the commissioners of stamp duties, a paper or note in writing, containing the name and usual place of residence of such person, and thereupon, on paying certain Office hinted that it would appeal the case and file a motion to reject the 11-1 decision. ``We're giving our attention to post-trial remedies,'' said Fred Merkin mer·kin n. A pubic wig for women. [Alteration of obsolete malkin, lower-class woman, mop, from Middle English, from Malkin, diminutive of the personal name Matilda.] , a senior assistant city attorney, adding that the jury's award can be challenged prior to its being made final. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the award, Green, a 22-year veteran, will receive $1 million in damages, with the balance in back pay for the amount he would have earned while in the Air Support Division. The Los Angeles Police Department "LAPD" and "L.A.P.D." redirect here. For other uses, see LAPD (disambiguation).  This article or section is written like an . declined to comment on the
outcome of the suit.
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