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A female Los Angeles Police Department helicopter pilot who sued the city, alleging she was subjected to gender and disability discrimination by supervisors who considered her overly emotional and incompetent to perform her job, has won a round in her bid to review the personnel records of multiple LAPD colleagues.

Officer Sara Marin’s Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit alleges sex and disability discrimination, retaliation and failure to prevent discrimination and retaliation. Marin seeks unspecified damages. On Tuesday, Judge Maurice A. Leiter granted Marin’s records inspection motion in which he will review the documents in chambers on Dec. 6 and decide if any of them should be turned over to Marin’s attorney.

In opposing the plaintiff’s motion, the City Attorney’s Office called it “impermissibly vague, overbroad” and that it sought information not contained in an officer’s personnel file.

The records to be reviewed by the judge are those of Officer Victor Pappas, who was given a pilot position instead of Marin. The plaintiff’s attorney wants to review any information in an internal department report related to Pappas allegedly removing, tampering with, disconnecting or otherwise disabling any camera or other equipment in any helicopter. Many lines in Marin’s motion are redacted.

`The court finds good cause for production of Pappas’ personnel records,” the judge wrote. “The court also finds that plaintiff is entitled to communications relating to the (internal) report as this is information that relates directly to and arises from Pappas’ personnel records.”

According to her lawsuit, Marin was hired by the LAPD in 1997 and she joined the department’s Air Support Division in 2004, starting as a tactical flight officer and she currently is a command pilot, a non-supervisorial position. She is one of about three females out of some 50 ASD pilots and one of about two female command pilots out of about 38.

Marin was named the LAPD’s pilot of the year in 2015 and is one of about eight department pilots, and the only female, who make up the group of pilots certified to fly sniper missions for the SWAT Team.

In September 2019, Marin was assigned to the special flights section, which conducts surveillance and support for detectives and undercover operations. Sgt. Janet Kim became the officer in charge of special flights and Marin’s immediate supervisor in January 2020 and two months later, Kim began arbitrarily singling out Marin and the other female officer in the unit by unfairly criticizing their performances, the suit filed last June 20 states.

Kim maintained that something went wrong every time Marin and the other female pilot worked together, according to the suit, which further states the second female pilot eventually left the unit.

Kim and ASD Capt. Sean Parker, who is now retired, removed Marin from the sniper unit for several weeks and threatened to order her to stop flying, falsely alleging the plaintiff’ was distracted, the suit states. Kim and Parker considered Marin to be “overly emotional and incompetent to perform her duties as a pilot based on nothing more than obvious sex stereotypes,” the suit alleges.

Plaintiff complained that she believed Kim was singling her out and trying to push her out of special flights even though Kim admitted she did not have any genuine safety or performance concerns about the plaintiff, according to Marin’s court papers, which further state that the Kim and Parker personnel records are among those the plaintiff’s attorney wants to peruse for any prior complaints or discipline.

Kim and Parker subsequently caused Marin to be passed over for an instructor pilot position even though the plaintiff had more seniority than the male candidates selected, the suit states.

The unit’s chief pilot told Marin that Kim and Parker prevented the plaintiff from being selected and that he could not justify their decisions, according to the suit, which further states that Marin’s chances to promote and obtain highly desired positions in the LAPD elsewhere have been negatively impacted ever since.

Marin became temporarily disabled in March 2021 after suffering a neck injury common among pilots and Kim removed the plaintiff from special flights when she could not confirm a prompt return to work, the suits states. Marin underwent major neck surgery and remained on medical leave for more than 10 months.

A male special flights pilot who also was on leave for the same injury was not transferred out of the unit, the suit states.

The LAPD’s Special Operations Division, which investigates officer misconduct allegations, sustained “frivolous charges” against Marin and recommended she be fired allegedly engaging in fraud, according to the suit, which further states Marin was once again not selected for an instructor pilot position in June 2022.

In April, Pappas, Kim and Parker were the subject of another records inspection granted by the judge in a separate motion by Marin’s attorney.

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  1. It’s just a little unwarried to understand that you got a license to be a civil servant for the State of California right. And being a civil servant for the State of California for the police and Sheriff’s Department helicopter squat. Then you’re going to worry about a gender deficient and a disability issue right. When hell every time you want to fly around in the fucking helicopter as a fucking woman! Biggest problem is you never got an education but you complain about every fucking thing you can do because you can’t get a fucking education law then somebody complains about you not having an education law you bring this kind of shit up how my son was a helicopter pilot for the Houston Police Department and you murdered his ass and Desert Hot Springs so what fucking point do you think I’m not going to shove the shit up your ass every time I see you. How your helicopter pilots have never had a commission pilot license nor will they ever know what a commission pilot license will require them to fly it how the public property license States why zone is 10,000 ft over private property act hell you can’t even study the fucking private property act but yet you’re going to say a fucking helicopter around because you want to wear a fucking dress everyday

  2. Here’s the answer to everyone’s problem! When the Lord speaks you should listen.

    The Gender Issue!!!;

    Every man was conceived to be a woman long before natural selection comes along and only reason natural selection comes along is because your father ran down the street fucking everybody else and never fuck you constantly for 9 months straight so you popped out as a shemale to take care of and treat your mother with respect and honor better than your father did and you tossed her to the curb to pick up with another woman. Second of all everybody came from Medusa’s daughter Eve when we ran out of the garden with Medusa’s daughter Eve we ran out of the garden of Eden with a serpent’s child being a serpent child every man is conceived to be a woman long before natural selection and every woman was conceived to be a man so the only gender dysphobia issue is we’re all transgender no matter what.

    And the second part!
    Ever since Julius Caesar was knife down in that tunnel we’ve always had to lay our head between the legs of a serpent we’ve always been conceived as a serpent child that falls out with a penis legs and arms hair on our head because the Roman senate made it So now here we are after five and a half flood’s and the serpent blood has gotten really stretched thin there is demons coming out of them the children are turning into God awful creatures and how you go out there and you execute somebody by taking the man’s life and murdering him and you wonder why he came back as a female serial killer and I call that precognant policing.

    And the third part:
    Hell Im the one that I got up on the cross to die for every man’s sin because how you got to sleep next to her everyday, She point out to him that the kettle is black but yet never understand how you’re the only homosexual on the planet conceived to be a man and fell out with a pussy and a pair of tits because how that’s how our life cycle starts every egg cracks open and the snakes slithers out vagina and you wonder why God won’t talk to you.

    I’ve given up the Need to Serpents Sex, Since every Child starts out as a Snake. When it cracks the egg and slithers down the uterus to bite the umbilical cord to Grow Arms & Legs & Hair with a Human-Like Appearance! That thinks he’s a man!

    Wouldn’t it be better being a person that didn’t have to change for someone else’s opinion because the fact that were conceived to be a female snake and you fell out as a female / Male Appearing human being. From conception to 13 weeks the species inside of  birthing stage there’s no head there’s there’s no arms no legs there’s no hair on the body there’s nothing it’s just a Snake at one end and a Tail at the other end and it gestation process in the middle.

    That had to be wrestle with a snake charmer could be hypnotizing to doing absolutely the opposite of what you wanted to do in the world how your own mother would chop your own head off with a 10,000 fold sword and sit there and ask what did they done they got somebody to spray them in the face with a concoction of DMT crystal meth heroin and the list keeps going on anthrax ansied benzene they would pump these drugs into these people while they were asked raping them all how they gave them all catheters out there at Desert Palm everybody got a cancer out there after they killed all the people that they need to do all this work cuz a lot of your entire celebrity list out there in the world
    that grew a penis because she was Transgender as well as you were only male because we’re both in our period stage at the moment for you’re not conceived to be a woman you were conceived to be a man and fell out with women parts for he was conceived to be a woman and he fell out with the penis for where all conceived to be in egg that we hatch out and slither down to the uterus to bite ahold of the umbilical cord so that the serpent is conformed into a human appearing person. With head,arms,legs and hair on our body and fall out.
    Here we are the serpenters trying to figure out our own life & our own expectancy of what was going to happen and here we are trying to praise to the Lord Jesus Christ but he won’t look down upon us because hell we’re a Serpent Race that appears to be human. We use SETI to look into the space to find an alien racer to the intelligent as in a smart and speaks in the language that we speak in. But the problem for that is we’re a conceived to be a female snake that falls out appearing to be a human being hoping like hell we’re going to see another human being in space coming back at us. And there’s no intelligence is stupid as we are.

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