Four Black female police officers, Danika Yampierre, Jasmin Rowlett, Tashawna Gaines and Welai Grant are suing the Baltimore Police Department as they accused them of having a culture of discrimination and mistreatment, according to The Baltimore Sun. 

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One officer alleges she had a fake rat on her desk. Another said while on maternity leave, she was harassed by her fellow officers and another police officer said she was forcibly transferred and was overlooked for a promotion. 

According to The Baltimore Sun, all four women have pending federal lawsuits against the department. 

Dionna Maria Lewis, the attorney representing the women, organized a news conference outside of City Hall to call out the police department that doesn’t treat minorities like Black women well. 

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“At what point will BPD self-monitor against the department’s own known complicit, insidious and institutional culture of sex and race-based discrimination,” Lewis, from District Legal Group, said. 

The National Association of Black Law Enforcement Officers showed their support to the four Black female officers and called out the Baltimore Police Department. 

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“Black officers know only too well the issues of systemic racism, bigotry, retaliation, and undue disciplinary action within agencies whose white-male dominated culture condones and perpetuates demeaning, degrading and disrespectful discourse and actions by and between officers,” they said in a press release. “The mere fact of its filing would seem to provide further evidence of an ongoing pattern, practice and custom of supervisory approval of abuse, intimidation and denigration of Black female police officers, actions that have apparently been ignored or encouraged by Baltimore police and city administrators.”