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Former Police Officer Pleaded Guilty To Civil Rights Charges

WASHINGTON – The Justice Department today announced that James Fetter, a former officer with the Memphis Police Department, pleaded guilty to involvement in two conspiracies to deprive individuals of their civil rights and to willfully using his position as a police officer to steal money during a traffic stop in Memphis, Tenn.

"Police officers every day carry out a vital and often dangerous duty, and they deserve our trust and confidence," said Wan J. Kim, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division. "When a few violate the civil rights of those they have sworn to protect, they undermine that trust and confidence, and increase the burden on and danger to their fellow police officers. We will continue to pursue vigorously those who abuse the public trust."

Fetter pleaded guilty to two counts of violating 18 U.S.C. § 241, which makes it unlawful to conspire to deprive individuals of their civil rights, and one count of violating 18 U.S.C. § 242, which makes it unlawful for a law enforcement officer to willfully make an unreasonable seizure of property from an individual.

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Positive steps taken by an employer to ensure equal employment opportunities for minorities, women, and persons with disabilities. In federal employment, extra effort must be made to include qualified women, minorities, and persons with disabilities at grade levels and in job categories where they are underrepresented.

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Overt discrimination is a specific, observable action taken against a person or class of persons because of protected status, e.g., national origin. This treatment also is referred to as "intentional discrimination. " Example: Failing to interview job applicants based solely on their race (race discrimination).

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National origin discrimination has been broadly defined as including, but not limited to, the denial of equal employment opportunity because of an individual's or his/her ancestor's country of origin or because an individual has the physical, cultural, or linguistic characteristics of a particular national origin group.

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