Brown v. City of Detroit

OPINION AND ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANTS’ MOTION TO DISMISS

ROSEN, District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

Plaintiff Eugene Brown, a police officer for the Defendant City of Detroit, commenced this suit in this Court on April 30, 2001, alleging that he was denied a promotion, transferred from street to desk duties, and subjected to public criticism by the Defendant City, two of its high-ranking police officials — Defendant Benny Napoleon, the former chief of police, and Defendant Walter Shoulders, a deputy police chief — and the Defendant Detroit Board of Police Commissioners. Plaintiff alleges that…