Can you apply a tort law framework in analyzing this lawsuit?…

AdmiralFishMaster219 Can you apply a tort law framework in analyzing this lawsuit?… Can you apply a tort law framework in analyzing this lawsuit? What are the questions that a court will need to answer in deciding whether the lawsuit should be decided in favor of the plaintiff (the offi- cer who filed the suit)? This is the case: The Case of Antiterrorism Officer “John Doe”: Racial/Ethnic and Religious Discrimination in the WorkplaceDiscrimination in the workplace can occur for dif- ferent reasons. Consider the case of “John Doe,” an undercover police officer in the New York City Police Department (NYPD). Egyptian-born and Muslim, he was subjected to treatment that may have been discriminatory for ethnic and religious reasons. The NPYD has contained an undercover unit of investigators, most of whom are of Middle Eastern or Asian backgrounds, who use their language and cultural skills to investigate potential terrorist threats against New York City. But one Egyptian-born analyst in the unit filed a suit charging that he was subjected to hundreds of anti-Muslim and anti-Arab sages sent out by a city contractor over the course of three years. In an interview, “Mr. Doe” (who was not named because he is still in the unit) said he com- plained repeatedly to supervisors but that no one took action.The lawsuit cites e-mail briefing messages sent out several times a day to members of the unit by Bruce Tefft, a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) offi- cial who has identified himself in the past as the Police Department’s counterterrorism adviser. (The suit was filed against both the NYPD and Tefft.) The e-mail messages were sent to everyone in the division, accord- ing to the suit, which also alleges that the briefing messages were preceded by anti-Muslim and anti-Arab statements like, “Burning the hate-filled Koran should be viewed as a public service at the least” and “This is not a war against terrorism … it is against Islam and we are not winning.” In one, he asked, “Has the U.S. threatened to vaporize Mecca?” and responded, “Excel- lent idea, if true.” The lawsuit alleged that e-mails “rid- iculed and disparaged the Muslim religion and Arab people, and stated that Muslim- and Arab-Americanswere untrustworthy and could not reliably serve in law enforcement positions or handle sensitive data.”According to a NYPD spokesman, the police com- missioner was not aware of the “offensive commentary” until the complaint was made. “As soon as the Police Department became aware of a complaint about the content by an individual not employed by the Police Department, we took immediate action to block his e-mails, followed by a cease and desist letter to the individual and his employer, a consulting firm,” he wrote.Reportedly the department’s contract with this advi- sor ended in 2003, but Tefft continued to send messages on his own, circumventing attempts by the department to block them. Mr. Doe’s lawyer commented, “It’s incredible in this day and age that hundreds of racist e-mails could be sent to hundreds of NYPD officials over three years, and not one person did a thing to stop it.”This unit was profiled on “60 Minutes” and in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Daily News. Mr. Doe said, “The NYPD was happy to introduce us to the press—’Here these guys are, the best of the best, they are doing a great job.’ But then they failed to protect us under this smear, this constantly daily attack against my religion and against good Muslim Arab-Americans, and I will say good because the majority are good.” Social SciencePsychology