Former police officer sues the city of Fresno for sexual harassment and racial discrimination

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- The City of Fresno and an serviceman are being sued by a erstwhile subordinate of the Department.

The suit alleges pistillate serviceman Amya Brooks was subjected to intersexual harassment, radical favoritism and unwanted intersexual advances.

The 43-page suit references respective incidents.

Brooks' Attorneys accidental she was forced to enactment successful a video conception astir moving retired astatine a gym founded by different Officer, adjacent though she had ne'er been there.

Brooks believes she was instructed to bash truthful due to the fact that she was an African American pistillate employee.

The ailment besides references an lawsuit that Brooks says she was told to be due to the fact that erstwhile Police Chief Paco Balderrama "wanted the Black officers there" to showcase the department's "racial diversity" for the news.

"She's lasting adjacent to the main of constabulary of constabulary 1 second, she's not being really engaged to beryllium successful that space," lawyer Ron Zambrano She's similar pictures done, you tin permission now. That's precise demoralizing."

Brooks' attorneys accidental she yet decided to resign amid the hostile moving conditions.

Action News reached retired to the metropolis of Fresno but they could not remark owed to pending litigation.