HENRY v. JONES

No. 06-3855.

507 F.3d 558 (2007)

Robert A. HENRY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Arthur L. JONES and City of Milwaukee, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided November 1, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William R. Rettko (argued), Rettko Law Offices, Brookfield, WI, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Jan A. Smokowicz (argued), Milwaukee City Attorney's Office, Milwaukee, WI, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge, and KANNE and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.


WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge.

After a local television station aired a videotape that showed Officer Robert Henry shoving an unarmed arrestee in a police station booking room and then pushing him against a wall and onto a desk, then-Milwaukee Police Chief Arthur Jones requested an Internal Affairs Division investigation and ultimately decided to terminate Henry from the Milwaukee Police Department. Henry, a white male, maintains that Jones, an African American, fired him...

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