Officer Daniel Leone: “Anti-Italian” Sentiment

Daniel Leone has filed a federal lawsuit in which he asserts there is an “anti-Italian” sentiment in the Philadelphia Police Department.  Leone is a bike cop in the Center City District.

Leone asserts he was retaliated against after he filed an official complaint about cops calling him a racial slur.  The slur was “dago”.  Leone says he reported the incidents up through the chain of command and nothing was done to stop it.

It should be noted that Frank Palumbo was the Captain in the Center City District.  Leone states he was denied “requested schedule changes that would be more accommodating to his life outside of work and that those requests have been denied”.  Really?  How many cops understand that this is one of the “undesirable aspects” of the job that is outlined in the job description for Police Officer.

Ironically, in 2002, Leone admitted to Leone saying to another cop, who was Puerto Rican “I smell stinking Mexican,”  In fact, he had Officer Nelson Aviles arrested for pulling a gun on him because of the remark.  Aviles was later acquitted.
Chief Inspector Tony Boyle said there is an “anti-white” sentiment among minority officers.

Officer Stacey Gonzalez and Officer Pavel Reznik who were assigned to the 9th District filed a federal lawsuit in which they assert there is an “anti-Semitic” sentiment in the Philadelphia Police Department.

Reznik, who emigrated from Russia to the United States, asserts he discovered a “SS” symbol scratched in a locker in the lawsuit. 

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Officer Gonzalez

 

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Chief Inspector Tony Boyle

So now we have the “anti-Italian” sentiment.  Which joins the “anti-White” sentiment.  And we know of the lawsuit filed by the Guardian Civic League along with Staff Inspector Debra Frazer, Captain Laverne Vann, then Lieutenant (now Sergeant) Anthony Burton and Officer Shamal Bryant, citing the “anti-Black” sentiment that they accuse Boyle of orchestrating in the Narcotics Bureau.