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A pro-life police officer finally received justice after being wrongly suspended from his job.
While off-duty, officer Matthew Schrenger was praying outside of a Women’s Surgical Center in the city of Louisville, Kentucky. The staff claimed he was “intimidating people” by wearing his uniform and gun.
After filing a lawsuit, the city of Louisville has to pay him $75,000.
The city was accused of violating the police officer’s constitutional and civil rights.
On his way to work, officer Schrenger stopped outside the facility to meet with his dad and pray.
He was also seen holding a sign that said “Pray to end abortion.”
Schrenger was in his uniform but off-duty as he “stopped to pray with his father before work,” WDRB News reported.
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Thomas More Society said the city’s “quick offer” implies the city “knows it committed a significant and inexcusable violation of a loyal officer’s constitutional rights.”
“The treatment of Officer Schrenger was particularly galling considering other Louisville police officers previously had marched, while on-duty and in uniform, in political protests that apparently were approved by the police department,” Heffron said.
Senior counsel Matt Heffron with Thomas More Society said Schrenger was “treated very differently than others who had undeniably engaged in true political protest and activism while participating in LGBT and Black Lives Matter demonstrations”…
“The unfair discipline revealed undeniably content-based discrimination against Officer Schrenger’s personal pro-life views and violated his First Amendment rights,” Heffron stated.
