A religious liberty law firm is reporting good news for its client, a pro-life police officer, who sued the city that employed him after he was punished for praying while off-duty outside an abortion clinic.
Matt Hefron, an attorney with the Thomas More Society, says police officer Matt Schrenger is “back on the job” after the City of Louisville settled his lawsuit out of court.
The city offered to settle the case and paid $75,000, the attorney tells American Family News.
On behalf of Schrenger, Thomas More filed a federal lawsuit last fall after he was suspended from the Louisville Police Department when city leaders learned he had demonstrated outside an abortion clinic while in uniform. Shrenger, however, says the police officer wore a coat over his uniform and he was unfairly targeted. While praying outside the clinic, Schrenger was photographed by abortion supporters who posted the photos online in an effort to punish him. He was suspended for four months pending an investigation.
Responding to the punishment, the police officer filed suit against his bosses with help from Thomas More and local attorney Blaine Blood.
“During the same time period,” says Hefron, “other officers on the same police force were on duty, in uniform, marching in a gay parade and participating in Black Lives Matter protests. They were not disciplined whatsoever.”
And that is why the lawsuit was important, the Thomas More attorney says. A veteran police officer and law-abiding citizen was treated unfairly by his bosses because it was assumed he would not make “a lot of noise” after being targeted and punished.
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Copyright American Family News. Reprinted with permission.
Sadly, the city politicians who should be required to pay from their own pockets won’t be paying. It will be the tax payers.
That is why in situations like this, SUE THE politicians doing it, AS INDIVIDUALS, so its THEM , not we the tax victims, who have to pay for their criminality.
The politicians who support the murder of innocent children in the womb and these low life politicians take it out on a police officer, who had the courage to do what was right. What a disgrace these politicians are supporting murder in our society. God Bless this police officer.
Good that he saw justice. If the authorities don’t want cops in uniform at any event if they are off duty then fine. However, since those at BLM and gay pride parades were not reprimanded that is clearly not the case.
I remember some news stories i saw, of officers getting reprimanded for REFUSING TO go IN UNIFORM to gay pride parades (TO show the cops support it)… SORRY, but if they can be FORCED ON THE JOB to attend those events, then someone doing this protesting OFF THE JOB< SHOULD damn well be allowed….
The City of Louisville, Ky is under Democrat Party rule and it has been well established that this Democrat Party hates God and worships the Lies and perversions of Satan. (the LGBTQ life style, unborn baby killing, etc.)
John 8:44
You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.