5 Kansas City Women Allege Local Police Of Rape

5 Black ladies filed a federal lawsuit on Nov. 3 alleging that Kansas Metropolis Police Division officers, together with retired detective Roger Golubski, engaged in a sample of harassment and sexual assault towards Black ladies. In response to KCTV, the lawsuit likens the officers’ conduct to a safety racket signed off on by the native authorities. In response to one of many ladies, Golubski instructed her, “Report me to who, the police? I’m the police” after he had allegedly raped her. 

In response to the lawsuit, which has been made out there on Scribd, “Jim Crow was designed to make sure emancipation was an phantasm and white supremacy remained the de facto legislation of the land. It stripped Black residents of their civil rights, made it simpler to arrest them, and assured it was more durable for them to win their freedom in courts. Jim Crow ensured a Black lady’s physique was no extra entitled to police safety than a Black man’s neck. However Jim Crow was not restricted to the rebellious Accomplice states. It additionally poisoned the Free State, regardless of its Capitol’s mural of John Brown raging towards the injustice of white supremacy. This case evidences the Free State’s an infection. For many years, the Unified Authorities gave its legislation enforcement, personified by Detective Roger Golubski, permission to terrorize, abuse, and violate its Black residents.”

Golubski, although a outstanding determine within the lawsuit, is way from the one officer named. In all, the lawsuit contains eight officers, composed of three police chiefs and 5 detectives. Thomas Daley, James Swafford, and Ronald Miller comprise the previous police chiefs, whereas Golubski, Terry Ziegler, Michael Kill, Clayton Bye, and Dennis Ward are the detectives named within the go well with. 

The lawsuit additionally makes an attempt to carry town accountable, referred to within the lawsuit because the Unified Authorities.

In response to the lawsuit: “The Unified Authorities permitted this illegal terrorization by the KCKPD. With the total data of supervisors, together with the Chiefs of Police, official authorities authority was used to realize leverage over and coerce submission from susceptible Black ladies. These victims have been then compelled to obey Defendants’ calls for, together with submitting to sexual assault and fabricating proof to allow the KCKPD to function its safety racket and canopy for his or her felony co-conspirators.”

In 2022, BLACK ENTERPRISE reported that Golubski was on the middle of one other lawsuit, introduced by Lamonte McIntyre, who served 23 years in jail for a double homicide in 1994. He sued Kansas Metropolis for $93 million in damages, and within the go well with, he alleged {that a} former detective–Golubski–framed him for the crime.

McIntyre alleged that the identical Unified Authorities that the ladies are trying to carry accountable for Golubski’s conduct have been additionally accountable in his case. Town ultimately settled for a fraction of that quantity sought by McIntyre, paying $12.5 million. Nonetheless, neither the division, the Unified Authorities, nor Golubski have been required to confess any wrongdoing as a situation of the settlement. 

In 2022, CNN reported that Golubski had been charged with conspiracy to run a intercourse trafficking ring with an area drug supplier within the Nineteen Nineties in addition to the rape of a teenage lady and a lady whereas “appearing below the colour of legislation” which implies he used his badge to commit these explicit sexual assaults. In response to CNN, it was not till Group Roc, the social justice minded arm of Jay-Z’s firm Roc Nation, used a full-page commercial within the Washington Publish to name for the Justice Division to analyze each Golubski and the Kansas Metropolis Police Division that the case acquired nationwide consideration. On the time, Group Roc referred to it as “one of many worst examples of abuse of energy in U.S. historical past.”

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