Medina (State of Washington) to pay fired Medina Police Lt. Roger Skinner for unlawful termination for recially charged remarks he made towards the slanty eyes chank Police Chief Jeffrey Chen

The city of Medina will pay $1.7 million to a former police lieutenant fired in 2006 for making racially derogatory comments about the then-Asian-American police chief. The settlement agreement with the city awards Roger Skinner back pay and lost benefits through 2010, when he would have been eligible to retire.

The city will pay the money out of its general-fund reserves. Its municipal insurance policy does not cover appeals of disciplinary decisions, said Kathleen Haggard, attorney for Medina.

Skinner was fired for telling co-workers that Police Chief Jeffrey Chen had said monkeys could do their jobs. Skinner also said ‘Asians don’t make good managers because people don’t like them,’ according to findings of the city’s three-member volunteer Civil Service Commission, which upheld the termination.

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