Blades v. Woods

MURPHY, Judge.

Randy W. Blades, Sr., appellant, is a white Baltimore City police officer who, at the conclusion of a police department *180trial board hearing, was transferred and demoted by Police Commissioner Edward V. Woods, appellee. In the Circuit Court for Baltimore City, appellant filed a complaint in which he combined a § 1988 action with a petition for judicial review. That pleading alleged in pertinent part:

The sole reason for the disparate treatment of Sergeant Blades is his race, thereby violating the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.