‘The way I was treated was wrong’: Dedham sergeant receives $1.3M after suing police chief

In an exclusive interview with the NBC10 Boston Investigators, a Massachusetts police officer described her four-year legal battle against the department where she has worked for more than a decade.

“The only way I can describe it is they’re clipping your wings,” Marissa Holland, now a sergeant with the Dedham Police Department, told NBC10 Boston. “They know you can see it. They know you’re more than capable of obtaining it. But they’ll do everything in their power to stop you from getting there.”

Holland grew up in Dedham and wanted to follow in the public service footsteps of her late father, a Vietnam War veteran who enlisted in the Marines…

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