November 4th 2023.
Five Black women have come forward with a federal lawsuit against Kansas City Police Department officers, including retired detective Roger Golubski. The lawsuit alleges a pattern of harassment and sexual assault, and likens the officers’ conduct to a protection racket approved by the local government.
One of the women stated that Golubski made a chilling comment after he allegedly raped her: “Report me to who, the police? I am the police.” The women's lawsuit, which has been made available on Scribd, argues that the police department has used its power to terrorize, abuse, and violate its Black citizens.
Golubski is one of eight officers named in the suit, which includes three police chiefs and five detectives. Thomas Daley, James Swafford, and Ronald Miller are the former police chiefs, while Golubski, Terry Ziegler, Michael Kill, Clayton Bye, and Dennis Ward are the detectives.
The lawsuit also seeks to hold the local government, referred to as the Unified Government, accountable for its role in the abuse. The document states that the Unified Government permitted the terrorization by the KCKPD, and that the police department used its authority to coerce and manipulate vulnerable Black women.
The same Unified Government was also the target of a lawsuit by Lamonte McIntyre, who served 23 years in prison for a double murder in 1994. McIntyre claimed that Golubski had fabricated evidence to frame him, and that the city was responsible. The city eventually settled for $12.5 million, but no wrongdoing was admitted.
In 2022, CNN reported that Golubski had been charged with conspiracy to run a sex trafficking ring and the rape of a teenage girl and a woman while “acting under the color of law.” It was not until Team Roc, the social justice arm of Jay-Z’s company Roc Nation, placed an ad in the Washington Post that the case gained national attention. Team Roc referred to it as “one of the worst examples of abuse of power in U.S. history.”
The lawsuit filed by these five Black women has the potential to be an important case in the fight for justice and accountability for police misconduct. Though the city may have denied any wrongdoing in McIntyre's case, these women are determined to make sure the same is not done in their own.
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