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Since the defendants are being sued in their official capacities as Cambridge city officials, Counter has effectively brought a lawsuit against the city, the motion argued. But a municipality bears no liability for “intentional torts” committed by its employees, and additionally, Counter does not show that the alleged civil rights violations resulted from a policy established by the city, the defense team wrote...
...Counter, who directs the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, alleged that the police officers’ improper actions constituted racial discrimination...
...Counter compared his case to several others, including that of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. this past summer. He called the Gates case “a tragic reflection of the kind of racial profiling and hostility that African-Americans, especially men, face every...
...don’t expect all of our white brothers and sisters to fully understand the nature of this racial humiliation,” Counter said. “We hope they do, but we don’t expect...
...Counter said that he and his legal team—led by Law School professor Charles J. Ogletree, who also represented Gates—have waited since 2006 to bring the discrimination suit for a variety of reasons, including a fear of “retaliation by the police...