State trooper awarded $600,000 in discrimination suit

Courtesy KEYE - CBS 42  Wed, 04/16/2008 - 7:00am

Jurors in Travis County awarded more than $600,000 to a black state trooper who claimed his race is partly why he was removed from Governor Rick Perry's protective detail.



 

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