Philadelphia Police’s Ex-DEI Chief Sues Alleging Gender Bias (1)

The Philadelphia Police Department subjected its first chief DEI officer to sex discrimination and retaliation, ultimately firing her for a bogus reason, a federal lawsuit against the city says.

After Leslie Marant was hired as the department’s chief diversity, equity, and inclusion officer to address the systemic sex discrimination that had plagued it for decades, she experienced “the very sex discrimination she was hired to dismantle,” according to the complaint filed Monday in US the District Court for the Eastern ...